Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption. Aaron Levie – Entrepreneur Charles Handy, probably the smartest workplace guru, said thirty years ago that work is fundamentally changing. Companies own core intellectual assets including proprietary processes and intellectual property. Handy then coined the notion of ½ by 2 by 3 rule of …
What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try to innovate. Sam Altman – Programmer and Investor All companies, even global corporations, have discovered they can’t be all things to all VUCANs. As companies attempted to please different customers with a large variety of …
If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. Laszlo Bock – Author Work and process rules are guidelines, tips and tools that can lead to success. Thomas Davenport, author of Thinking for a Living said: “To treat something as a process is to impose a formal structure on it – …
Process is a particular course of action intended to achieve a result. Dictionary Processes are how work is done in many companies. The traditional process structure was a pyramid with the Chief Executive Officer at the top. Work flowed down and across the organization. Technology, new business models, globalization, customer’s expectations, automation have created new business models and work processes: …
VUCAN DRIVERS – PROCESSES Old Norm New Norm Core process work Project work Fixed organizational structure Fluid & agile structure Offshoring Near shoring Buy in ‘Make or Buy’ Make in ‘Make or Buy’ Outsourcing to China Reshoring Chinese partnering and collaboration Digital Curtain with China Made in China Made in U.S. Transactional sourcing Enterprise focused sourcing Vertical …
In this 7P’s section, we discuss the core Process paradigm. Process work means different things depending on context. Process work for big companies involves core work processes that are repetitive, continuous, and controlled. Process work involves developing new business models – new ways to solve a problem, add value, make a decision, and innovate a service. For example, Amazon’s …
If we believe work is project related then the earliest homo sapiens had a project approach to gathering food, hunting for food, building shelter, and propagating their clan. Each of these activities had a beginning and end with a specific life-driven purpose. Sounds like a project to me. Managing by projects is not new. Architectural, …
Are you a core process worker or do you support them (think of Handy’s model)? Do you agree with Handy’s ½ x 2 x 3 rule of corporate fitness? Are you in the inner, middle or outer ring of the Handy model? Are there any middle ring consultants who are paid a premium in your …
The lifelong project career path is evolving inside and outside organizations. We may be professionals, specialists, or craftspeople. What characterizes us is we have portable and marketable skills. We are becoming itinerant professionals. A software engineer learns new software languages and goes where the market is. A lawyer with special skills, such as environmental law, …
Luddites were British textile workers in the early 19th Century, who protested the changes and even destroyed the mechanical looms that threatened their livelihoods. Some of the brightest soothsayers say the e-world including the Internet will change the fundamental ways we work and live much like he Industrial Revolution changed work in the 19th century. …