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Why you should manage processes not (just) projects
© Jultud | Dreamstime.com – Steel Spring And Pulley Photo Project management is a big thing in the corporate and public sector world and there are therefore often high expectations about how projects...
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A Simpler Approach to Managing Anything – the Superior Business Analysis...
Superior Business Analysis has done a lot of growing up since it was first launched online in October 2012. What is now a ‘simple and universal approach to managing your business – whatever that...
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The new and improved Superior Business Analysis Website is being relaunched...
Well it’s with mixed emotions that I write my last blog post on the current incarnation of the Superior Business Analysis website, and put the last touches to a major website update that will be...
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Documentation isn’t cool – so what’s the point?
We have been thinking recently about organisational change and how it can be implemented. Last fortnight’s post focussed on how to make the change stick and some of the challenges. There were a few....
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Making Change and Fishing Tackle
Ok, ignore what I said last week. So much for making an executive decision to skip this part of the continuous improvement cycle. That is definitely taking the easy way out, which is something I don’t...
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Tables and Decision Logic
Tables and decision logic So, this week we are resuming where we left off at the end of the last post, dealing with tables and broader frameworks for capturing how decisions are made. This is...
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Analysing the heck out of decisions
So finally – after deferring it off for several posts – we have made it back to decision analysis and the use of decision tables. We had started to explore this in a post ages ago – on the 10th of...
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Making the Change Stick
Last post we talked about different faces and strategies to making change. So I thought that this week we would follow up with some specific considerations about making change stick. We’ll stick with...
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Planning Changing
Ok gang. So the last two posts have been on documenting and then improving the steps followed to undertake an activity (yes, no matter how I try to avoid saying it, that is a process). Which means...
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Inevitable Logic and Process Improvement
Given we have spent the last couple of posts exploring how to document activity steps and how to elicit them, it is fitting that we now explore how they are improved. But boy oh boy is this a big...
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Techniques for Tapping Procedures
Oh heck. It has been one of those fortnights and somehow my usual blog-writing commutes got gobbled up by work and conversation. But my next post is due and I really have no excuse for taking a break,...
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Charting the Flow
Finally here’s the subject I’ve been waiting for! Not because the other topics we’ve covered are irrelevant or mundane. Nope, this is more of a personal thing. Call me insane, call me weird, but I just...
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The Leader’s Handbook – About a Book
Today we are doing something a little bit different and instead of exploring my next planned topic, I will be reviewing – or enthusiastically regurgitating the theories from – a book I have just...
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Putting Risk in its Place
Hmmmm. Just looking at that word ‘risk’ gets me a bit scared. It’s silly really. There are tiny risks, infinitesimally unlikely risks, funny risks and risks so intriguing that whole science fiction...
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Taking your business seriously
I seem to mention a certain man, a Mr Ronald G. Ross, an awful lot in this blog. In fact I did some online training with him and his colleague, Gladys S. W. Lam, just the other week, so it’s little...
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Chartering New Waters in Strategic Thinking
How do you drive out the strategy for your organisation? Is it through brainstorming? Is it a bit more tokenistic and a matter of retrofitting existing activities to defined goals? Or do you have a...
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Reading for Pleasure or Pain
Identifying the boundaries of your organisation and its operations is a fundamental part of its strategic framework and it generally uses a different skill set to that used in defining its mission,...
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Creativity in Catalysing
Today we are going away from traditional management material again to have some fun with the documentation of strategy. You see, writing a mission, goals and principles for your organisation is not...
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Applying Logic to the Stars
It’s a good thing that I’d committed to doing the next post on ‘goal frameworks’ because between then and now I might have chickened out. In fact, if you’re a diligent follower of my blog then you...
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SWOTting for Goal Setting
Over the last two posts we’ve talked about generic techniques for generating and analysing ideas. However the time has come to move back toward the Superior Business Analysis model and talk about the...
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