Which large organisation does not suffer from these challenges? Who has not tried and retried to find effective solutions?

What works? What does not? 

Around 2008 something changed. What used to be "must have" best practices, methods, and tools were questioned. Things have since moved on. Today's situation can be summarized as follows:

With an overload of conflicting advice, many questions arise:

• What caused the present situation?
• How do you select what works and avoid what does not work?
  
• How do you prevent the traps of previous solution attempts?
• How do you make solutions sustainable?

Although there are exceptions, there is a reason that traditional and fresh solution approaches continue to fail: Did you know that a range of techniques, highly effective in stable environments, create failure when the environment becomes too bureaucratic or complex?

The Good News

With the track record of improvement initiatives across the globe, the challenges seem insurmountable. However, when we looked closer at, for example, cultural matters, it turned out that a range of cultural obstacles are in fact straightforward functionality shortcomings. Many of these challenges are easy to overcome. Imagine what happens when a project focuses on changing culture but overlooks the needed functionality!

The good news is that relatively small and low-cost techniques are often highly effective with complex challenges. Some solutions have turned out to be amazingly simple. Here is one. Here is another one: Capacity management techniques for the treatment of ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism and the likes (see "Preface" in the download).

Getting Started

The first step is to build confidence and create a budget for the initial steps. With project failure rates of 50% and, in certain areas, up to 90%, a savings potential of millions is readily available. We only need to adjust/stop doing what does not work. How? Click here. 

Moving to Guided Self-Organisation^TM and Effective Simplicity^TM

Depending on the environment's priorities, there are multiple possibilities to move from "stop doing what does not work" to implementing effective solutions. Whatever the route, the key is to position the initiative for success. This is established by the following:

• Assessing solution elements against the outcome of "Getting Started" workshops.
• A solid understanding of how the solution elements will integrate so the environment will not fall back into old habits.

The following are examples of lowest-effort/highest-impact elements:

• "Show me in just a few mouse clicks at least the current enterprise level documents I'm expected to use." For more information, click here.
• Translation of lowest-effort/highest-impact knowhow from "Getting Started" workshops into policy, strategy, and/or guidance. 
• A solution delivering to needs: "Show me in just a few mouse clicks the documents that apply to me, their current status, and only those." And "sorry, I don't have the time to locate the current versions and lessons learned from various Webpages." For more information, click here.
• A solution closing the functionality gap between organisations, processes, best practices and locations, making organisations, and locations operate as one entity. For more information, click here.
• Utilizing a new generation of leadership training and coaching to make culture change occur quickly (available from third parties).

For those who like to move forward quickly, there is a fast track: From Crippling Bureaucracy and Overwhelming Complexity to Effective Simplicity

For more information, call +31-78 644 0199 or send us a brief description of your business challenge.