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Business Processes: Doing Things Right or Doing the Right Thing

OK, so your organization has done a review of your processes – your processes are now well documented and you’ve identified the measures (data that can be tracked), built systems to track that data, and then implemented control…

Posted March 8, 2013 by Allen Black 2 Comments

Food Safety and the Leadership Vacuum – Dallas 2013

Last week I had the pleasure of participating in the 3rd annual Food Manufacturing and Safety Forum in Dallas, Texas. Delta Partners was there to discuss our consulting capacity in organizational development and change management, as…

Posted March 6, 2013 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Food Safety and the Globalization Challenge

Globalization has been radically transforming markets and entire industries for long enough now that it’s no longer an interesting conversation. However, the food and beverage industry moved more slowly than other manufacturers to…

Posted February 22, 2013 by Geoff Schaadt 0 Comments

The Business Case for Strategic Planning in Municipal and Regional Governments

If only we had done this two years ago, we would have been working closer together as an organization. This statement reflected the frustration that members of both the (elected) County Council and the (hired) County Staff and…

Posted January 5, 2013 by Allen Black 0 Comments

Service Improvement - What are the alternatives?

By and large, organizations focus on people, procedures, and tools to improve their business.  They carelessly ignore the fact that it is the processes used in an organization – and the way that these processes are aligned – that holds…

Posted August 9, 2012 by Allen Black 1 Comments

Strategic Planning and Risk Management

In the first blog of this series Strategic Planning as an Organizational Learning Model, I suggested that a strategic plan should represent the best of the collective learning of the organization. My second post dealt with Strategic…

Posted July 13, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Food, Quality and Lessons from Vegas

Delta Partners joined over 25,000 attendees and 4,000 exhibitors at the IFT12 Annual Meeting and Food Expo held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26th to 28th. We shared a booth with Ithos with whom we’ve partnered to provide food manufacturers…

Posted July 11, 2012 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Strategic Planning and The Quality Imperative

In the first blog of this series, we introduced the notion that viewing strategic planning as an organizational learning model is key to improving implementation. In this post we explore the quality management imperative through the same…

Posted July 6, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic Planning as an Organizational Learning Model

Strategy, and more to the point, the execution of strategy, is often a tremendously complex undertaking. The standard list of “problems” identified with strategic planning include: about 40% of strategic plans fail or are not…

Posted June 29, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Sustainability and Collaboration

I was fortunate to attend my second – and the 23rd bi-annual – Corporate Affiliates Workshop Series presented by the AHC Group, June 20 - 21, 2012, in Saratoga Springs,New York. This workshop was very similar in format to the session…

Posted June 26, 2012 by Geoff Schaadt 2 Comments

Tapping Your Innovation Potential

“Doing more with less” has once again become the mantra for executive leaders – and now is the time to capitalize on the opportunity to harness your innovation potential. Budgets have been allocated. Meetings are frantic, issues get…

Posted May 12, 2012 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 2)

What Needs to be Done? “Treat regular workers as if they were volunteers.”       Drucker on Leadership Overview While research shows that engaging employees can directly improve performance, experience has shown that it is…

Posted December 10, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge (Part 1)

In an interview report in a recent issue of the Canadian Government Executive magazine, Wayne Wouters, the top public servant in the Canadian federal government, answered a number of questions explaining his take on leadership in the…

Posted December 7, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Lessons in Innovation from PS Engage 2011

Along with over a hundred other delegates, presenters and sponsors, I had the pleasure of participating in the PS Engage 2011 Learning & Networking Event last Tuesday.  The Canadian Aviation and Space Museum was a wonderful and inspiring…

Posted November 30, 2011 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews: A Checklist to Understand Your Capacity for Change

As the rate of change that our people and our organizations face continues to accelerate, many are undoubtedly in the process of preparing for some form of transformational change. For public servants, most of you are preparing to face…

Posted October 26, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 0 Comments

Build a Culture for Continuous Change

So what is the culture of an organization, and where does it exist? Change is a good thing. For the purposes of this discussion, the culture of an organization exists in the conversations of its participants.  In other words, what…

Posted October 22, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 0 Comments

The Alternative to ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

Earlier this week, the Ottawa Citizen published a Susan Riley piece entitled “Death by a thousand cuts”.  In it she expressed her concern that “no good will come” from the current round of federal budget cuts.  While I don’t subscribed…

Posted September 29, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 4 Comments

Budget Cuts: Cut Your Headcount or Improve Your Processes

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”      – Edwards Deming Budget cuts. Lay-offs. Resource restrictions. Fiscal restraint. We hear it again and again. As a manager, how are you going to meet these…

Posted August 27, 2011 by Stephen Davies 5 Comments

When Dogma Gets in the Way of Innovation

How to make innovation every employee’s responsibility was the topic of discussion at a recent Surge Group Breakfast Dialogue. Often organizations can’t get on the road to innovation because their people are blocked by the thinking of…

Posted August 10, 2011 by Bert Zethof 1 Comments

Innovating Innovation: Our Current Model is Broken

I believe that ‘innovation’ is the source of constant discussion because nobody knows what to do about the massive problems facing the world today.  Whether on the national stage or at the level of the organization, the message is the…

Posted May 21, 2011 by Greg Tricklebank 1 Comments

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