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 [...]
Making Enterprise Performance Useful
I reckon most of my the people visiting this blog know one or two things about enterprise performance (not that I am an expert here). Well, although trying to, systematically, formalize a business strategy and then executing it had its root since the early 20th century but with the focus on the finical runs as [...]