Category Archives for "Performance Improvement"
Articles and Posts related to improving the performance of a person, group, department, an entire organization, or something even larger (an industry or geographic region)
Performance Improvement and Your Competitors
How do you know when your performance improvement (operational excellence) efforts are paying off? When even your competitors notice and cannot help but acknowledge your great results publicly! This just happened in the cut-throat world of US airlines. In an article entitled American Airlines to Delta Air Lines: Hats Off To You For Operational Excellence, […]
What Should be Your First Step to Improving Performance?
Why Knowing Your Biggest Opportunity (or Challenge) is the First Step to Valuable Performance Improvement It never ceases to amaze me how few business owners and senior executives can answer this one simple question: “What is your biggest opportunity (or challenge)?” Fully half of those I ask just stare at me and say: “Wow! That’s […]
Research: Why Companies Keep Getting Blind-Sided by Risk
See on Scoop.it – Synergetic Management: Business Innovation & Improvement Supply chain risk ain’t sexy. And that’s why it never gets the funding it deserves. Synergetic Management‘s insight: Conclusion: Risk management must be everyone’s responsibility, and senior managers must make “bake into their culture” the need for risk analysis and risk management. Wow! A great […]
Embrace ignorance, leverage knowledge!
Weird as it may seem, a vital element of leveraging your knowledge is to be found in embracing your ignorance. Without embracing your ignorance, there is no room for creativity, invention, innovation or design, thus there is little ability to leverage your knowledge beyond what is required to maintain the status quo!
Leadership vs. Management — the missing Coaching competency
How adding a Coaching competency to the Leadership vs. Management debate creates much needed synergy
On incubation, re-direction, and FourSight
Hello Synergetic Management Community! First, an apology: I should have told you that I would be stepping back from posting for a few months. Turns out my absence was a bit longer than anticipated, but I still should have told you. Thanks for your e-mails over the last little while. Essentially, the overriding theme was: “What […]
Why you need a great definition of creativity
The biggest problem I see among business owners, senior executives, managers, and all those who need new and useful solutions to challenging problems is that they usually fail to come up with new and useful solutions. One major reason for this failing is that they define creativity ahead of time in ways that are self-limiting […]
Innovation then … and now?
This is the second of a two-part look at creative outputs and innovation. In the first part, we looked at an interesting blog post by Stephen Arnold who challenged his readers with the view that creative leaps by Google are done more via acquisition than by internal “idea / innovation labs”. This has profound implications for […]