By Eric Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International If evaluating the success of your organization’s strategic initiatives seems to be an elusive endeavor, you should find the framework offered by the Strategy Implementation Model and the Strategy Implementation Maturity Survey (SIMS) very helpful. Much has been written about strategy development, strategic planning, strategic thinking and…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 4-8-2012 Part C – PLAN Now, as we begin to plan what we’re going to do about deploying our tablet initiative in our warehouse, let’s keep our parallel involvement process going to mitigate any other potential unintended consequences. This is a key Systems Thinking tool. A…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 4-8-2012 Part D – ACT Executing our tablet initiative project is now probably a lot easier. We’ve done a lot of hard work up front, used some good practices, and using some proven structures and processes, we have laid out our plan or road map with…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 4-8-2012 Part B – THINK As we move into the THINKING stage of this exercise, let’s consider what the thought styles should be. How you think is really important in achieving results. We are engaged in a project that is intended to have a lasting effect…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 4-8-2012 Part A – LEAD Join me as we touch on all four stages of Lead, Think, Plan, Act in a tour of the now very hot tablet market. What I’m talking about are those book or folder-sized computers that include the ubiquitous iPad and Kindle…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 11-18-2011 Takeaways: Systems Thinking is an excellent tool to stay ahead of changes in the world around us. Understanding and applying it in organizations improves communication, reduces unintended consequences, and changes the internal culture. What is Systems Thinking and why should it be important to ALL…
By Eric A Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International 6-8-2011 You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why Not? – George Bernard Shaw Are you a mid-level manager, a supervisor, the CEO of a young, growing organization, an owner of a small business or a…
By Eric Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International Takeaways: Planning can become an integral part of work. Prioritize, follow the Rule of Three, identify resources for each project, and set long term schedules are some of the steps to follow. It is apparent that planning seems to be a business task that people now often…
