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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 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

Regulatory, Quality, and Food Safety – Lessons from Toronto

If you could guarantee a strong food safety culture and compliance in two steps – would you do it? Last week (October 23rd and 24th) I attended the 3rd Annual Food Regulatory & Quality Assurance Summit in Toronto. The two-day event was…

Posted October 31, 2012 by Francis Loughheed 0 Comments

Enterprise Risk Management, Planning, and Decision-Making (Pt 2)

In the first post on ERM, we discussed what Enterprise Risk Management means and some approaches that you can take to identify risks.  However, the article ended with a big, “And I’m supposed to do what with this information?” So, let’s…

Posted October 3, 2012 by Debra Sunohara 0 Comments

Enterprise Risk Management, Planning, and Decision-Making

The Oxford Dictionary defines risk as “a situation involving exposure to danger” or “the possibility that something unpleasant will happen”.  We prefer to use a neutral definition of the term “risk”: Risk is the combination of the…

Posted September 29, 2012 by Debra Sunohara 0 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

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 Part 5: Waiting for Your Numbers

This post is the fifth in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR). Part 1 — Strategic & Operating Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or not…

Posted October 8, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 0 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 4: A Framework for Success

This post is the fourth in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR). Part 1 — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or…

Posted September 17, 2011 by Ian Jackson 2 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 3: Change and Failure

This is the third post in our series on Strategic & Operational Reviews (SOR).  Part 1 — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — dealt with the issue that changes are coming to the Public Service, whether or not the…

Posted September 10, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 2 Comments

Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 2: Alignment and Failure

In my previous post — Strategic & Operational Reviews: We Can’t Agree to Disagree — I discussed the fact that SOR will bring changes to the Public Service, whether managers want it to happen or not.  It’s coming.  The success or failure…

Posted September 8, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 3 Comments

Which is your favourite book on STRATEGY?

      Here are my favourite books on strategy: The Art of War – Sun Tsu James Clavell This book offers an overarching vision of strategy and implementation that is still highly appropriate in the chaotic times we face. The…

Posted August 3, 2011 by Alcide DeGagné 2 Comments

10 Guiding Principles for an Effective Performance Measurement Framework

Like most organizations, you probably dedicate significant time and resources for planning – strategic planning, operational planning, business planning, program planning, project planning, even planning for meetings.  How do you know if…

Posted July 20, 2011 by Scott Hodge 2 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

Logic Models: Both a Tool and a Strategic Process

Whether in government, the private sector or the non-profit sector, these key questions apply in any context: Are we doing the right work? Can we make better decisions? Are we getting superior results? Logic models can…

Posted May 11, 2011 by Allen Black 2 Comments

A Roadside Guide to Innovation for Human Resources Practitioners

Let’s face it, the ability to offer many choices to meet as many individual needs as possible, whatever the situation, is a popular notion.  This applies to more than just the shampoo section of your corner drugstore.   There is…

Posted May 4, 2011 by Diane Bégin 5 Comments

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