Angela Montgomery

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The Human Constraint — a business novel about company and personal transformation

Chapter One — Unreal City

Dec 28, 2020

The Human Constraint — a business novel about company and personal transformation

Dec 28, 2020

The End of Silos — Building Organizations Fit for Our Times

If organizations need to learn anything today it’s how to overcome silos. Silos are the number one enemy of productivity and…

Jun 21, 2017

The Opportunity of Digitalization: Integration and Acceleration

Digitalization is something companies are increasingly coming to grips with and it is radically impacting business models. Communication…

Jun 19, 2017

Creative Thinking for Business — A Process that Can Be Learned

How can we produce more creative business thinkers? What sort of things should business schools be teaching to make that happen?

Jun 14, 2017

Truly Transformational — The Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Unity of Purpose

Once you have understood and experienced the transformational power of the Theory of Constraints there is no going back. It changes your…

Jun 12, 2017

How to Find Out What is Actually Making Money in Your Company (and What Isn’t)

If you knew accurately what is actually making money in your company wouldn’t that then influence all your decisions regarding cost and…

Mar 23, 2017

Complexity — We Can’t Work in Silos to Solve Systemic Problems

It may still not be obvious to all organizations and corporations, but they urgently need to come to terms with complexity and its…

Mar 14, 2017

Complexity — We Can’t Work in Silos to Solve Systemic Problems

Mar 14, 2017

How Innovation Can Make Companies Smarter

Focus and continuous innovation

Mar 10, 2017

Innovation, Leadership and Quality: How They Interconnect

Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. and international expert in Quality and Systems Thinking for organizations…

Mar 9, 2017

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Small Business Forum

Steps Towards Prosperous Innovation

What better subject matter for our new blog layout than innovation? This post is by Dr. Domenico Lepore, an international expert on systems…

Mar 6, 2017

How Can Organizations Adapt for Unprecedented Speed?

The challenges facing organizations today are rapid, complex and unknown. They struggle to read the stimuli, absorb them and react within a…

Mar 3, 2017

How Can Organizations Adapt for Unprecedented Speed?

Mar 3, 2017

Everyone Can Win: Why We Need A New Economics

In his monumental work ‘The New Economics’, W. Edwards Deming states:

Mar 1, 2017

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Design Your Processes, Design Your Reality

A recent afternoon was spent looking at the meticulous flowcharts of processes drawn up by an innovative software company for a client. It…

Feb 27, 2017

Design Your Processes, Design Your Reality

Feb 27, 2017

Why Organizations Get Stuck

Every kind of organization aspires to achieve its goal with increasing effectiveness. In order to do so, it has to do two fundamental…

Feb 24, 2017

Feb 24, 2017

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How to Create a Unifying Vision and Plan

How do you take a group of separate companies and/or individuals all with different backgrounds and skills and get them to contribute…

Feb 23, 2017

The New Leadership Skills for Complexity

If Business Schools are churning out people with the skills that are not adequate for today’s complex world, how do we prepare people to…

Feb 21, 2017

The New Leadership Skills for Complexity

Feb 21, 2017

Everything Is a Project

When you really think hard about it, everything we do of any relevance is a project. With the exception of repetitive processes, e.g…

Feb 17, 2017

Feb 17, 2017

The Risk of Not Working to a Goal Plan? Just Filling Your Time

No matter how busy we may be doing stuff during the day, that “busyness” is not necessarily a measure of progress. In fact, if we haven’t…

Feb 15, 2017

The Stories We Tell About Ourselves — Narrative and Trust

There’s a lot of talk about narrative these days. In fact, we all tell stories all the time — from what we communicate to customers about…

Feb 14, 2017

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The Stories We Tell About Ourselves — Narrative and Trust

There’s a lot of talk about narrative these days. In fact, we all tell stories all the time — from what we communicate to customers about…

Feb 14, 2017