Question of the month:How can innovative leadership influence an organization’s success?

In June, our articles focused on leadership and its impact on organizational culture. The term leadership is quite broad. Whether you are the CEO of a large company or the manager of a small department, you can make a difference through your leadership skills.

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Question of the month: How does innovation contribute to change?

After talking about change in April, we turned our attention in May to three companies that successfully embraced change and made it part of their continual process improvement. Many improvement opportunities mandate that you look at the situation a little differently and try to make it better with a different and innovative approach.

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Last week’s article was about Fueling Innovation. In recent articles we have talked about the history of innovation in the U.S., and the continuing need and opportunity for innovation and change.  We have reviewed how the spirit of innovation has played an important role in the history of the United States.

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A frequent topic at Bizmanualz is innovation.  Innovation means being willing to look at what you’re doing from a fresh perspective or to think outside the box.  Innovation fuels improvement:  improved products and features, improved methods, and improved knowledge. 

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Last week we talked about working harder, working smarter and waste. This week I would like to discuss process improvement and layoffs. Think of this as improve too fast and you will have no choice but to

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Part 3 of a four-Part Series

In the last article we discussed organizational structure with a focus on span of control and how it relates to employee competence, real or perceived. Your span of control is simply the number of employees that report to you directly. Competent workers should have little need for managers to guide them. So, span of control is

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Part 1 of a four-Part Series

This month, we will examine the organizational design principles that lead to the foundation required for successful process improvement programs. Tools like Six Sigma, Lean Thinking and Theory of Constraints are great but

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Part 4 of a four-part series

Delays, we all encounter them everyday. But in process terms, delays are one of the biggest causes of ineffectiveness, inefficiencies, and poor performance. In past articles we saw how delays in the manufacturing cycle

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Part 3 of a four-part series

Are you solving problems or improving the process?

In other words, if you find a problem in a process and implement change to fix it, then did you improve the process? Well, maybe… Sure, solving problems may be an important thing to do, but

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You want to — you need to — get change going within your organization, and quickly.  The question is, “How do we get started?”

First: Create a Change Baseline

Your own assumptions about what motivates people will determine the success or failure of your change program. If your assumptions are incorrect,

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