by Anne C. Graham | Nov 14, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
The new buzzword in business is “pivot” – a key talent for future success, requiring an organization to not only be market-aware, customer-focused, and employee-driven but to deliberately develop the speed, agility, and flexibility to thrive despite the increasing...
by Anne C. Graham | Nov 14, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
Organizational speed, agility, and flexibility are becoming more critical with increasing rates of change, but how do you trigger focused creativity to build an organization that can quickly and easily adapt and respond? In Part 1 of this series, I shared the concept...
by AnneCGraham | Nov 14, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
In this 3-part series, we’ve explored the shift from strategic planning to strategic thinking, and looked at the importance of using all the brainpower in your organization, not just half of it. In this final segment, I’ll share what has delivered results for my...
by Anne C. Graham | Oct 24, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
“Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is” is widely known as Wayne Gretzky’s secret to success as one of the all-time hockey greats. Easy for him to say and do… harder for most businesses to put into practice because of all their moving parts. So how DO...
by Anne C. Graham | Apr 17, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
I’ve been speaking with several CEOs recently about the difference between Operational Excellence, which is typically defined as a lean journey, and Enterprise Excellence, which is typically defined… not very well. This is the first of 2 articles that will help shine...
by Anne C. Graham | Apr 3, 2018 | Creating Speed, Agility and Flexibility in Your Business
Be honest… have you achieved everything you planned to do in the first quarter of 2018? Revenues? Expenses? Profitability? Other KPIs? Strategic Initiatives? Major Projects? Or have you succumbed to the sins of conventional strategic planning? If you have monstrous...
