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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

How Resilient Is Your Organization?

In response to last year’s H1N1 crisis, I posted a blog suggesting it would be timely for organizations to consider a strategic planning exercise aimed at developing contingency plans that could be quickly implemented to ensure…

Posted April 20, 2011 by Allen Black 2 Comments

Tools for Managers: The PESTLE Analysis

In a previous post, we discussed the use of SWOT Analysis and it’s usefulness as a framework for discussing the internal and external environment that an organization faces.  I would like to extend that discussion here to introduce the…

Posted March 16, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 8 Comments

Bringing the Factory to the Office: Applying Deming - Part 1

The work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming is well known as it applies to quality in manufacturing, though when asked, people will give different interpretations of his work - usually as it applies to them. My view is that Deming understood…

Posted March 9, 2011 by Phil Hawkins 4 Comments

Are You Prepared for the Future? How to Deal Effectively with Global Turbulence and Uncertainty

We live in a period of what British management thinker Charles Handy has called Discontinuous Change - that change arrives in erratic, unpredictable bursts. Handy is regarded as one of the top thinkers of all time, ranking beside…

Posted March 2, 2011 by Jim Taggart 2 Comments

The Org Chart as a Management Tool

It’s a story that has played out more times than we care to remember.  Chances are good that you’ve seen it happen. An executive in your organization is flipping through a three-ring binder looking for some document, and there, on the…

Posted February 12, 2011 by Ian Jackson 2 Comments

SCENARIO PLANNING: Create a Context

In my November blog post  Scenario Planning: Crystal Balling or Smart Business?, I looked at how scenario planning makes good business sense and shared a client success story. The example I used was part of a strategic planning session…

Posted February 5, 2011 by Allen Black 0 Comments

Re-visiting the SWOT Analysis

The first implementation of the SWOT Analysis seems to have been put to use somewhere in Southern France roughly 28,000 years ago by a local cave dweller who was evaluating the wisdom of pursuing a strategic move to the hunting of saber…

Posted January 22, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 4 Comments

PICO: 4 Steps to Asking Better Questions

Many of my current friends and colleagues are not aware of it, but I actually spent the first half of my professional life working as a medical professional.  There are, of course, many differences between working in a medical setting…

Posted January 15, 2011 by Geoff Schaadt 3 Comments

Business Case Development: Ignore the Fundamentals at Your Peril

Sound Familiar? "We can't afford to fund every new project or development proposal anymore. We have to find a better way to prioritize proposals, decide which to continue, and which to drop." "Starting this year, any request for…

Posted December 31, 2010 by Allen Black 0 Comments

Scenario Planning: Crystal Balling or Smart Business?

Is trying to make projections for the future – which is not the next year, but three to five years out – too risky?  Might this be perceived as “crystal balling” and not worth the time and effort, or might it be something that makes…

Posted December 1, 2010 by Allen Black 2 Comments

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