In my reading this week I came across a blog post from Tom Peters entitled Strategy: War on Systems. Tom talks about “systems” within an organization and while they are developed with good intentions, they often become inhibitors to achieving the organizational mission. I talk about this very subject quite a bit on my blog also. [...]
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We’ve all been there. Something goes wrong and as a follow-up we look for the root cause and how to prevent it from happening again. More times than not, we solve this procedure by adding another step to an existing process. It’s almost automatic and we don’t think twice about amending a process because we are [...] I was watching CNN this morning while doing time on the treadmill. A story came on about the warning from OSHA to Sea World that whales would eventually kill a person in the current environment unless they made some changes. It made think about people within organizations that try to sound Kai=Change, Zen=Good(for the better), Kaizen=Continuous Improvement warnings [...] Processes, processes, processes, what’s the purpose of all the processes that govern our lives? They certainly have merit and can aid us in many ways: They create repeatable steps that deliver consistent output. |
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