Amplify the Potential and
Capability of Your Organization

Sample FRAMEWORKS for The Future

Integrating Elements

Five elements make up any enterprise structure. They all interact and effect each other in one form or another. Some have a strong influence, others have a weaker influence. Some support each other, some work in opposition.

As leaders we must balance and integrate this business structures.

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House of Managing

A useful metaphor used by many when describing an Enterprise.

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Framing Your Project

LEVERAGE CONTEXT to guide the team before creating action plans.
  • Breaking Down Barriers - Create a common understanding that goes past emotions to the heart of the issue.
  • Intent/Function Models - Dimensioned by Cost, Flow, Responsibility, etc.
  • Efficient Preliminary Project Design - With Plans to Validate & Implement
  • In-depth Understanding & Commitment by Cross-Functional Team
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Strategy Made Visible, Tangible & Indispensable

A Strategy Story Board
To See How Everyone Contributes
  • Align & Synchronize Leadership while enhancing relationships
  • Enhance Clarity & convey business intent
  • Create Meaning, Understanding, & Full Engagement
  • Put initiative into the context of a common goal
  • Build Strategic Agility and Capability into the organization
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Faulty Practices

Explore methods to understand the organizations we work in and produce a foundation for judging our decisions. Synthesized knowledge from four diverse fields of thought, for use by all types of enterprises:
  • What is Variation telling us? About the process? Individuals in the process? Economic control?
  • How to work as a System? interdependencies? Obligations of Components?
  • Understanding people - Their interactions with each other? Circumstances? Systems?
  • How do we know what we know? How knowledge is created & revised? How the choice of concepts rests upon usefulness for action.

F.A.S.T Modeling

Function Analysis Systems Technique

Separate INTENT from METHOD
Create Clarity of Thought

Then select a

METHOD based on INTENT
Function Analysis challenges the assumptions most people make about how a product or service satisfies a need. Ask How and Why a function accomplishes the need. Only then can you begin to understand what is necessary to accomplish the function.
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Parable of the Red Beads

This live demonstration provides a powerful lesson of why traditional 'manage for results' does not produce the desired results. Doing your best, quotas, exhortations, threats as well as imposed work standards have no effects on outcome.

The company in the experiment fails due to the system not improving. Management’s efforts to “Motivating” individuals to do a better job did not help.

When improvement is desired, then improve the system, any other activity will only cause frustration for you and the workers.
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When is a Change an Improvement

aka Funnel Experiment

An interactive demonstration that any change without intimate knowledge of the process is tampering. How depending on intuition and common sense only makes things worse. This simulation shows the consequences of tampering and the manager's need for Profound Knowledge.

The implications to business are startling.
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Supply Chain Simulation

aka Beer Game

This workshop instills lessons of management science that no lecture can convey. It will stay with you for the rest of your life.

The world is constantly growing more complex. One phenomenon of this complexity is how can well intentioned, intelligent people create an outcome no one expected and no one wants.

Participants experience the frustration of being at the mercy of the forces of the system. While demonstrating how local decisions, combined with time delays, affects the whole.

This simulation explores several analogies, from the ’boom and bust’ of the so-called ’business cycle’ to the ’Bull Whip’ effect experienced in supply chains.
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