Business Transformation
Feedback from HR directors highlights the importance of biomimetics as a technique in leadership and change management
HR Directors that attended the recent HR Forum in London to hear Phil Rchardson give his talk on leadership and change management and the use of biomimetics as a business tool provided some exciting feedback. If you are interested in finding out more visit Thoughtcrew or call Phil on +44 208 133 4728.
“Very passionate about [...]
Symbiosis as a tool to understand business partnerships
At the HR Forum in London today Phil Richardson presented biomimetics and how that can be used in helping understand busines relationships and growth driven change management. A summary can be found in Personnal Today
Biologize your HR strategy
Tap into the power of nature to design and deliver your HR strategy. Using Past Casting based on the biology of crabs it is possible to design everything from a future based competency interview to aligning the leadership team to the new growth strategy. Business biomimetics provides a way of challenging traditional thinking that [...]
Man made evolution
Did you know that cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi and sprouts are all man made vegetables? Wild mustard was used as the initial species and then engineered over time to artificially select certain attributes.
This artificial selection can also be seen in business strategy where people, processes and systems have been selected from the original. However they [...]
Credit cruch change - what’s in it for me?
Making the connection between the idea and the delivery needs more than just a proven consulting method. By understanding the “what’s in it for me question” change can be better managed and success achieved more readily.
If you can answer this question for your key stakeholders then you are halfway home. Next time you write [...]
CRM project not quite going to plan?
You will no doubt be aware of the ‘buzz’ surrounding something called CRM or customer relationship management. In some cases it might be referred to as ERM ( enterprise relationship management), customer loyalty, or even the customer experience.
It all means the same thing.
“How do I/we make money?”
Essentially all the terms above are concerned with the [...]
The value of business operations
One significant weakness in many business strategies, is that they do not appreciate the value that business operations can bring to achieveing both competitive advantage and success. Once the domain of manufacturing, business operations is now the mainstream way in which any business works. perhaps the better way to think about business operations is to [...]
Business projects - did we solve the problem?
Projects
There seems to be a difference between what people think project management is and how they go about managing projects. Our view is pretty simple. We see the project as a finite piece of work that delivers a result - often solving a business problem. It rarely is IT alone and often IT takes a [...]
Shadowboard
In our experience when you, as a business needs consulting help, you do not need all the help that you are given (and pay for!). We have created Shadowboard as away to minimise your investment and to maximise the capabilities that you get. Essentially our Shadowboard analysis looks at the changes that you face and [...]
Operations management: increasing interconnectedness
“The nature of operations management is changing. Customer demands for better service, the growing dominance of technology (especially information and communications technology), the view of the individual enterprise as just one component of the total value system, the increasing interconnectedness and globalization of business and economies and the widening range of stakeholders to be satisfied [...]
