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Transform your thinking
Really important changes start in our minds. If you are attempting to transform your business, create disruptive innovations or make a significant difference in some grand challenge, you will most likely be limited by your fundamental thinking skills. That’s not … Continue reading
Decisions = learning that lasts
This week I was reminded of the importance of lifelong learning and further convinced that a well-framed decision is one of the best ways to pass on skills to others. I found myself on this train of thought after reading … Continue reading
Big Ideas: Decision Management
Because Decision Management (DM) is not widely recognized as a first-tier management or technical process, I often have to restate the Big Ideas on which DM is based. For each idea (assertion of a truth that I’ve found useful), I’ve … Continue reading
Strategic vs Operational Dashboards
It seems that management dashboards have been a popular business topic for well over a decade. Senior managers are looking for any edge that will keep them ahead of the disruptive changes that their businesses face. Three of my more … Continue reading
Balancing factors for situation success
I’ve been blessed in life with the opportunity to tackle a diverse set of me-stretching challenges. Perhaps I sought these out by saying “Yes, I can do that!” a bit hastily, but I’ve never considered a perceived-by-others failure to be … Continue reading
Lean and Agile Thinking
It’s hard to escape the influence that the Lean and Agile movements have had on innovation-driven enterprises. They have grown from their manufacturing and software roots to converge in the new product development, innovation and start-up space. And done mostly … Continue reading
Management by Decisions
Many of my posts focus on Decision Management, a first-order business/technical process that includes the following elements: Plan Decisions: Frame the problem to be solved as an explicit decision model. Make Decisions: Synthesize alternatives, evaluate alternatives, assess risks/opportunities, capture rationale, … 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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Failure to leverage decision patterns
“Manage Decisions across Domains” is the fifth process within my Decision Driven® methods engine. That’s really consultant/nerd-speak for “Use decision patterns, dummy!” and “Never make a decision from scratch!” Decisions patterns are a precious form of intellectual property, but are often … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Concepts, Decision Driven Product Development, Decision Patterns
Tagged bad decisions, business acceleration, business process, core competencies, decision defects, decision faults, decision management, intellectual capital, intellectual property, platform engineering, product development, stage gates, time to capability, time to market
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