Enhancing Organisational Effectiveness: The Impact of Applying McGregor’s Theory Y

2 months ago
Howard Clark

Many organizations express their desire to boost productivity and reduce costs, but the reality often reveals increased activity without substantial…

Using Purpose to Design and manage for effectiveness, learning and autonomy

7 months ago

If you were to ask most managers if they trust their teams, they would probably look at you a little shocked…

Senior Leadership Knowledge seeking for strategy formation – a case study

7 months ago

Most modern organisations are drowning in information but often short on knowledge. And as we all know, without knowledge, there…

Designed to fail? Mckinsey’s 70% and all that

8 months ago

Mckinseys get a lot of stick for their claim that 70 percent of change programs fail to achieve their goals…

Reflecting upon Personas

3 years ago

Reflections upon personas, what they are, what problems they were created to solve and what the criticisms are.

Designing and doing in a traditional programme environment

4 years ago

As services improvement specialists the ability to explore, understand and adapt to the different situations that we find is critical.…

Beyond Command and Control by John Seddon

5 years ago

This may be John Seddon's best book yet.

To understand effectiveness university leaders should study demand

5 years ago

One of the quickest ways for university leaders to understand the effectiveness of their services is to study demand

Consulting advice is serious business

5 years ago

Despite widespread humour about business consultants giving advice, it is a serious endeavour. Bad advice harms companies and livelihoods. I…

Seeing distance learning module production as a system

5 years ago

This is the story of understanding disatnce learning module production as system