Operations
The Singularity of Organization Is Influence Read More: Fortune 500, Company Culture, House of Cards, Holacracy, Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Social Technology, Zappos, Influence, Social Media, Business News
Generating, moderating and channeling influence has become the most important thing that any company can invest in, so why aren't more doing it?
Step-by-Step Guide: How to Choose the Right Vendor For Your Business
Dive deep by setting up a meeting with your management team and department heads to hash out what you love, hate and want. What is on your wish list?
Step-by-Step Guide to Handling a Crisis on Social Media
You wake up at 4 a.m. to the sound of your phone ringing off the hook. Your subconscious knows before your body can fully register: something is seriously wrong with your business.
Going Postal
Let's face it, to get to the top of anyone's good list is certainly no easy task. Hats off to those who are helping the Postal Service reinvent itself and supporting a very complicated IT system.
It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement
Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health. While it may be heresy to say this, recent evidence suggests that it's time to question these methods.
Strong Brands Depend on Systems and Consistency
I'm sure you know the kind of business I'm talking about. It's that place that has an innovative or high-quality product or service, is cute and charming, is obviously run with love and passion, has lovely well-intentioned staff -- but just doesn't have its act together. Sound familiar?
The Problem With Perfection
The law of diminishing returns states that at a certain point adding more effort will not produce significantly more gains. The challenge is knowing when you've reached that point.
Systematize One Process at a Time
It can seem like such an insurmountable burden to develop business systems, operational policies and procedures -- including finalizing them in writin...
The Best-Drawn Supply Chain You'll Ever See: A Look at How an Industry Evolves
When drawing supply chains, most people don't bother with more than a fast doodle with boxes. When Scott McCloud draws a supply chain, he takes it to a different level.
Reports: NATO To Assume Command Of Libya Operation Read More: Gaddafi, No-Fly Zone, Fighting, Libya, Turkey, Military, Nato, Arab World Unrest, Violence, Operations, Middle East, Command, World News
ANKARA, Turkey -- NATO appeared on Thursday to move closer to assuming command of the military operation in Libya when Turkey's foreign minister was q...
Why Best Practices Are Hard to Practice
Why do some organizations succeed at utilizing processes and tools developed elsewhere while others fail?
Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Read More: Holistic, Dennis Meadows, Catastrophe, Tactics, Economy, Technical, Agriculture, Proliferation, Whole Systems, Immigration, Other Atrocities, Diplomacy, Policy, Infectious Disease, Threat, Intelligence, Decision Support, Transnational Crime, Open Everything, Analysis, Operations, Medard Gabel, Society, Security, Justice, Family, Energy, Earth, Strategy, Jorgen Randers, Poverty, Civil War, Participatory Medicine, Terrorism, Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows, Inter-State Conflict, Acts of God, Education, Earth Dashboard, Participatory Budgeting, Environmental Degradation, Water, Health, Buckminster Fuller, Genocide, Russell Ackoff, Whole Earth, Earthgame, Decision-Support, Sanity, Stephen Colbert, Politics News
Whole Earth Whole Systems The Earth is a self-contained system in which all elements interact in ways that we humans simply do not understand--witnes...
De-Cluttering Your Organization
Just like me, most organizations are pack rats, accumulating goods and people that lose value over time. Why is it so hard for us to throw things out?
Are You in Cahoots With Complexity?
No one consciously and intentionally creates complexity. But unintentionally, and unconsciously, all managers are complexity creators.
Obama Signals Shift in Governing Philosophy Read More: Hilary Clinton, u.s. Economy Problems, Nancy Killefer, Congress, Federal Workers, Steven Chu, Federal Government, President Obama, President Obama Administration, Operations, Peter Orszag, Obama, Policy, Department of State, Federal Employees, Economic Crisis, Obama Administration, Secretary of State, Obama's Cabinet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Administration, Politics News
He is not just saying we need to improve government operations. He's saying we need to put this issue front and center and then he is taking real action.
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