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Consulting Services: Strategic, Pinpoint, Turnkey
This week I’ve been pondering how to communicate the value proposition for some new consulting services. They are not really new, i.e. we’ve done them in parts for many years, but newly packaged and aligned so that they can deliver … Continue reading
Simplicity
Three events this week have me focused on the theme of simplicity. On Tuesday, I participated in a panel discussion hosted by the INCOSE Crossroads of America chapter in Indianapolis. We fielded multiple questions about the practice of Systems Engineering, … Continue reading
Product Scoping Decisions
If you have been around Product Development or Systems Engineering long enough, you could write some horror stories describing how feature bloat killed a great product. Regardless of your product development methodology (waterfall, lean startup, agile, etc.), every product has … Continue reading
Stimulate Grand Challenge innovation by clear problem framing
People love a grand challenge. Nothing gets our creative juices flowing more than a tough well-framed problem. Grand challenges work because they: Excite the imagination, stimulate innovative, out-of-the-box thinking. Attract many contributors. Attract diverse contributors, both domain experts and outsiders … Continue reading
Make the leap – to simplified strategy and product development
I believe that strategic planning and product management/development processes are unnecessarily complex at most companies – even the best of them. This complexity has many causes. Some valid contributors to this complexity are: These processes (Strategy formulation, development and execution, … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Concepts, Decision Driven Product Development, Decision Driven Strategy, Decision Patterns
Tagged co-innovation, complexity, decision management, decision patterns, innovation, lean, portfolio management, product development, product management, simplify, strategic planning, strategy
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Diagnosing start-up failures – and learning from them
A great majority of entrepreneurial start-ups fail. These failures have many “presenting symptoms” but one root cause – decisions (overlooked, poorly made, poorly executed). Ultimately “all faults are decision faults” (see October 10, 2008 post). If you do a root … Continue reading
Decision patterns – an actionable mental model for startups
In his book, The Founder’s Dilemmas, Noam Wasserman highlights in multiple places the need for a comprehensive and shared mental model among the co-founders of a new business. Many of the root causes of failed start-ups can be traced to: … Continue reading
Update to Decision Patterns
The Decision Driven® Solutions Framework (DDSF) has built-in support for the use of knowledge patterns. This includes the ability to create and maintain a hierarchical pattern for a set of requirements, decisions or architecture elements. These patterns can be used … Continue reading
Rapid problem framing through decision patterns
The Decision Driven® Solutions Framework (DDSF) was unveiled in June 2014 at the INCOSE International Symposium in Las Vegas, NV. The enhanced capabilities of DDSF include a pattern copy/paste feature in the Decision Breakdown Structure (DBS) tool. This function enables … Continue reading
Situation patterns
Your job will typically fit into one of 3 patterns (roles, functions): Create: Innovate and define strategy, capabilities and solutions. Implement: Translate strategy, capabilities and solutions into reality. Operate: Manage, deliver, perform or support the stuff conceived and deployed by the other … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Patterns
Tagged career, decision network, decision-making, deployment, implementation, Job design, job roles, Kepner-Tregoe, knowledge flows, operations, problem analysis, project management, rational process, risk management, Situation Appraisal, strategy, thinking, thinking patterns
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