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Five whats and a how – solution-focused method to make team progress

Mike Cardus

AND you need Five Whats and a How to catalyze innovation. When you’re thinking about improvements or a process of things you want to enhance or innovate, generally, you start with defining some of the best hopes you want to achieve. What do you notice when the improvements are happening inside the system or the individual?

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. NOISE Analysis.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Align Systems ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline I. Decide What's Important ).

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Align Systems ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline I. Decide What's Important ).

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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

However, as organizations recognized the importance of human capital, HR shifted its focus to functional excellence in areas such as staffing, training, and reward systems. Initially, HR practices focused on efficiency, ensuring that HR processes were streamlined and cost-effective.

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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

These variations all focus on creating better teams that are able to work together to solve problems and innovate solutions. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Creating a shared language for team behaviors then exploring the system-that-drives those behaviors increases team effectiveness. DiSC Perception.

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Smart Strategies for a More Effective Business

Strategy Driven

This is particularly important with how fast new innovations and trends take hold of each and every industry. You need to know where your weak points are if you can ever hope to succeed, which is why you should conduct a SWOT analysis as soon as possible. Instead, improve your systems to that work can be done quickly and easily.