Transformation is HARD! If you don’t believe that then you have never gone through one. Often, when a transformation fails or an organization does not achieve its’ desired business results, “culture” is identified as the culprit or perhaps the scapegoat so says two Supply Chain Management professors in “Culture Eats Strategy . . . and how to deal with it”.
I was recently on a call with a client (where we had worked on a major Transformation effort) to launch a Professional Services sourcing engagement with a spend well into the 100’s of millions. While we were talking about the governance for this engagement, he…
The complexity of maintaining the country’s electrical grid in case of a disaster is humongous and the Department of Energy has identified it as a major risk and has challenged the industry to come up with solutions. The industry has been trying a number of…
If you have been to any of our webinars, presentations, PERT workshops or training, you must have gotten tired of hearing us go on and on about Content vs. Context or how Context ALWAYS trumps Content. While you may or may not be fans of…
Have you ever wondered why you hire consulting firms? I have hired all the big firms early in my career but I did start questioning why I was doing it way back then also. We hire them because they are very effective at what they…
As I was struggling to find a topic, a colleague sent me this article entitled How to Cut Costs More Strategically (HBR-Paul Leinwand & Vinay Couto) as a suggestion and what immediately struck me was that it sounded very familiar. Sure enough, I found an…