Last week I wrote about leading learning organisations 2020s style where I explained that a great business acumen is enhanced with scientific method and creative thinking (see figure below). This week I’m concentrating on the scientists in organisations. For example, the data guys over there in the corner. They don’t say much, they beaver away,
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge published in 1990 exposed to the world Senge’s seminal work on the learning organisation. While Senge’s five disciplines of Systems Thinking, Personal Mastery, Mental Models (blinkers or blind spots), Shared Vision and Team Learning continue to be important, if not vital, components of the modern organisation, leading the modern learning
No, not unmanned aircraft flying us around the world! A small project to assess the value of a bigger data project and to stimulate interest and eventually strong support for the project. Why a pilot project before you go into a full blown project you know you will get benefit from? Because most big data
Last week I listened to Creativity 101 on the ABC Podcast This Working Life. Widely acclaimed creativity and innovation guru Sir Ken Robinson was being interviewed. One of things that makes Sir Ken Robinson shake his head is how many organisations don’t do creativity and innovation well. He opined that it was because being creative by
In the past month or so with blogs on KPIs, KRIs and measures that don’t really matter I have been attempting to convince you to improve your measurement of what really matters in your organisation so that you can make better decisions. Along the way I have mentioned that some measures can actually hurt an organisation. This week I wanted