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Paula Newby
- Oct 21, 2020
- 1 min
Nibbles: Avoiding the Danger of Organisational 'Artery Hardening'
It was Andy Warhol who suggested that ‘everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’, and this principle can likely be attributed to various #businessimprovement methodologies: 6-Sigma; Agile; TQM; PPBS etc – described by tompeters.com as ‘developing hardening of the arteries’, that ‘lose their youthful glow’, suggesting throwing out any system after 5 years. However, the reasons for ‘organisational sclerosis’ are many – including ineffectual leadership; inadequate budgets; ill-def
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Paula Newby
- Oct 20, 2020
- 1 min
Nibbles: Innovate now?...Absolutely!
In a recent McKinsey report on 200 organisations, over 90% of Executives said that they expect this pandemic to fundamentally change the way they do business, but only about 20% believed they had the internal resources to pursue new growth successfully. However, history suggests companies that invest in #innovation THROUGH a crisis outperform their peers by upwards of 30% during recovery. Of course, most businesses are busy watching pandemic developments closely, conserving c
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Paula Newby
- Oct 19, 2020
- 1 min
Nibbles: A Covid Survival Plan for Education
As Educational Organisations have reacted to the current unprecedented situation, most have completed the first two steps of Predixa’s ‘Education: COVID Hierarchy of Needs’. STEP 1: Meet baseline government regulations and protect all stakeholders. STEP 2: Adapt to the short-term by moving many courses online, and adjust payment plans to help those struggling financially. STEP 3: Educationalists need to be looking over the horizon in order to plan and survive in the medium to
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