I have witnessed, many times, people get excited over a trend and jumping into the bandwagon to reap the benefits and to claim to their top management that we did it, and we are part of the emerging world. One of which that I saw, as an advisor for an agency, was the work of [...]
The Enterprise Boundaries
In many of the conversations, you will see people swapping the words organization and enterprise to define the business unit they work within. Of course, this is not limited to the for-profit business; and could expand to a wide range of organizations, including governments and charities. So, why to differentiate the two? Well, most improbably, [...]
Frameworking It!
I never believed that humans could set boundaries for themselves. By nature, we are creatures of curiosity, and, cumulatively, have reached an advanced level of civilization that was never meant to be without our interest in the unknowns. We never seem to be satisfying with what we have, whether it is something physical or none. [...]
The Concept and Realization Paradox
During a meeting I did a couple of years back, I was in sitting with an executive and a consulting party to assess the organization's operating model, and more specifically, the organization hierarchy, job descriptions, and architecture. Anyhow, the executive was presenting a previous strategy consulting work that included a high-level operating model that included [...]
Fooling the Future!
I am guessing some of you have worked with some planning activities for where to move the business next. Be it your next yearly budget, defining the goals for the next strategy overhaul, or some form of a business systems planning. People spend too much time, and effort in hypothesizing some future according to their projections [...]