Monthly Archives: August 2014

608, 2014

Wisdom of the crowd- A new management concept

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James Surowiecki wrote that “a large group of people are often smarter than the smartest people in them.” Hence the term “wisdom of the crowd was born”. In other words, a group’s aggregated answers to questions that involve quantity estimation have generally been found to be as good as, and often better than, the answer […]

608, 2014

Use a measures gallery to test measures

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Stacey Barr in her PuMP methodology has pointed out the benefit of showing performance measures  on the walls in a room. Visitors from around the company come for a coffee and leave notes about their concerns or issues relating to a particular measure, on post-it stickers. This system is using “Wisdom of the crowd”.  An […]

608, 2014

Delivering bulletproof presentations

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We all can  be better at presenting.I highly recommend attending ‘a train the trainer ‘course for all those presenting on a regular basis. please read my article

108, 2014

We need to sell our team contribution to the organisation

By |August 1st, 2014|0 Comments

Far too often we undersell our team contribution.This article will help you to score more goals.

108, 2014

Its time to get rolling planning

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Annual planning is anti lean. Please read this article and my white paper on implementing rolling planning.

108, 2014

It is time to eliminate EXCEL models over 100 rows

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For many reasons excel is no longer relevant or appropriate for 21st century future ready operations. Please  read this article and then my white paper on how to sell a planning tool to the senior management team