Simple methods to get you across the line, every time The Grind We’re all familiar with the grind. You’re busy leading your team and program, grafting to meet deadlines and negotiating for resources. You know your team does good work – people tell you so all the time – but it can be difficult to measure … Continue reading
Category Archives: Transformation
Practical Creativity in a Disruptive World
Embrace Uncertainty with Practical Creativity. Creativity, Motivation, Practice. I design and build business programs for a living. This means consciously deploying a framework of design and agile methodologies to discover, define and make operational adaptive and innovative actions that scale. With the pace and breadth of change in today’s technology and business environments our perspectives by definition … Continue reading
The Designer’s Mindset – The Force Mechanism of Change
The psychology of how we pivot and the mechanics of how we do so. Horses for courses It seemed like an interesting insight into the equestrian world rather than a life lesson, when Tim Beecher explained to me how racehorses take a jump. It was the very start of my career and the famed Irish horseman … Continue reading
Delight your Customers with an Authentic Customer Business Model
Build an authentic customer business model that works What is Customer Authenticity? How good do you think your customer’s experience really is? In a ‘complex’ sales process there are many different stakeholders, constituencies and offerings and ways to engage. Bill Schmarzo reminds me that customers are not buying your product, they are buying a means … Continue reading
What’s your Point of View?
Have you ever given time to really considering what your point of view is or why that’s important? Let’s look at 8 steps to building a firm foundation for value from your POV. Continue reading
A Blueprint for Better Program Design
Give your organization a value advantage with human-centered design. Continue reading
Building a Standard Framework for Transformation
As a company goes through a transformation, it’s important to recognize the four interdependent journeys that will take place. Continue reading
Reframe your Executive Briefing Program as a Business Design Tool
Your Executive Briefing Program can – and should be – reframed as a key enabler of longer term customer-centered relationships and desired business outcomes. Continue reading
From Gut Instinct to Process
Build success on collaborative energy and the design-based processes for repeating it Continue reading
Thoughts on Practical Creativity
I believe that if we infuse our programs with the belief that they truly transform the business, we will always connect dots that spark our imagination, enabling multiple adjacent possibilities. Continue reading