In The Loop
How would you describe your company? Do you think of it as a set of functions or as a set of systems? This is...
On the day you start a company, you give birth to a system. Not much of one, of course. It is small and weak — almost...
Vision is the leader’s foresight: the end in mind as to what the enterprise will become. Its reach is limited only by the leader’s...
Systems can always be improved. But a system intervention must be well planned, or the cure may prove worse than the disease. In improving...
When an enterprise fails, opinions abound as to why. Some fault the functional structure. Everyone operated in silos. The sales department was the problem — or...
If you are the CEO or senior executive of a company with big aspirations — whether startup or Fortune 500 — it’s on you. Only you can turn...
Digital technology has hit an inflection point, and there’s no turning back. Products and services are digitizing. More and more human activity is becoming...
Introduction “You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)...