Top Tips to Ensure Execution Success
Project execution is an uphill battle. Ensure success by devising a blueprint from executive commitment to follow up.
Strategy or Execution?
Strategy and execution are equally important for business success. If you find yourself stuck on one, find a way or a designate a person to attend to the other.
Avoid New Year’s Resolutions
Avoiding New Year’s resolutions leads to success by creating a continuous goal-setting process for better results and lasting achievements
Put Your Eagle Eye on What’s Key to Success-Leadership
Effective and successful leaders have the ability to formulate a company vision and also translate that vision into execution. Leadership will make or break your business. Put your eagle eye on ensuring success in this arena and you’ll thrive. The two core tasks of a leader are 1) to set strategy, [...]
Why Strategic Planning is an Oxymoron
Strategy implementation should consider how the organization will have to change and evolve to support the strategy.
SIOP/ Integrated Business Planning
Manufacturing and distributing product to meet customer demand can be like a puzzle unless you start using SIOP as a core process to run your business. SIOP (sales, inventory, & operations planning) taken to the best practice degree is often associated with integrated business planning. In some circles, they [...]
The Transfer of Ontario Airport & The Challenge Bridging Strategy & Execution
Many of my Inland Empire colleagues and trusted advisors have been supporting the transfer of ownership of the Ontario airport back to the city of Ontario (from LAX airport) for YEARS. It was a big surprise last week when the Los Angeles Times reported breaking news that it is [...]
How to Revitalize Projects to Ensure Success
Since projects are cornerstone to delivering bottom line business results, it is worth revitalizing your core projects at key juncture points such as after the holidays.
Why Doing It Right the First Time is NOT Always Right
We commonly hear the phrase "Do it right the first time". Of course, generally speaking, who wouldn't want to do that? Waste is bad. However, I've found that there is a time when doing it right the first time is NOT the path to success.
Uncommon Common Sense Project Management
Increasingly, project management is a matter of getting more accomplished in less time. The simplest way to succeed is by using smart and simple approaches.