Change Management

Integrating Established Disciplines into an Operation

July 28, 2025

Implementing an established discipline such as Project Management / PMO or Lean Six Sigma (for example) should consider enabling fundamentals before moving forward.

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Combining Stakeholder Interviews with a Maturity Assessment Tool

July 15, 2025

Stakeholder interviews can provide baseline knowledge to create a comprehensive business process improvement plan and maturity assessment.

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A Continuous Improvement Maturity Assessment

July 11, 2025

A detailed maturity assessment tool can significantly improve initiative implementation.

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Business Process Assessments – Stakeholder Interviews

June 13, 2025

While there are numerous business process assessment methodologies, this article will cover an ‘interview’ type assessment.  This approach is very high-level and perhaps anecdotal, but it is based on “seek first to understand”, ideally performed by an objective observer or…

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The Three Disciplines and Change Management

April 14, 2022

In this weeks article, we’ll explore how the three disciplines (product development, process improvement and project management) can enable change management. First, it’s worth reflecting on how these disciplines fit together.  Starting with product development our goal is to understand…

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Why Excellence May Not Be the Best

April 14, 2022

Productivity ties to leaderships vision and purpose, the organizational structure, and motivates the right behaviors.

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Fundamentals of Applying a Structured Approach

October 19, 2021

In reviewing several previous articles in this article series, it’s apparent there is much in common with product development, project management and process improvement. Let’s look at a brief list that considers a structured approach vs. unstructured While this list…

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