by Phil Jones | Updated 17 Oct, 2017 | A Modern System of Management, Agile & learning organisations, Thought provokers
Treat this as an off the wall, whimsical post – with a serious intent…. One thing that we all see far too much of – Management. One problem with many organisations is that we spend too much time managing, we create too many rules and practices and...
by Phil Jones | Updated 29 Oct, 2018 | Agile & learning organisations, How we make & take decisions
Back in the dot.com boom around 2000 I was Chief Technology Officer of a start-up that changed direction 180 degrees in 6 months. Within the first six months we had speed: we had our solution up and running to demonstrate a net-market for trading materials between...
by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Jun, 2020 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Agile & learning organisations
Sometimes I hear people say that their strategy is operational effectiveness. However Michael Porter explains that operational effectiveness is NOT a strategy, and should not be seen as a strategy. Why? Operational effectiveness as viewed by Michael Porter...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Sep, 2011 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Agile & learning organisations, How we make & take decisions
Using Judgement and Evidence in Modern Balanced Scorecards: the use of subjective and qualitative measures. Audience questions and responses I presented a BetterManagement webinar on this subject, on 14th October, and it received a lot of interest. You can listen...
by Phil Jones | Updated 27 Feb, 2018 | Agile & learning organisations, Emergent strategy, Managing uncertainty & risk
How do you handle rapidly evolving and changing strategy with a strategic balanced scorecard? We often feel that the environment around us, is changing rapidly. So, we need an approach to strategy planning, communication and implementation that can accommodate a rate...
by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Jul, 2017 | Agile & learning organisations, Modern Balanced Scorecards
Modern Balanced Scorecards: The Sesame Street Connection To understand the Balanced Scorecard you have to understand where the originators were coming from. This article provides insights into how the originators thinking influenced the underlying principles of the...
by Phil Jones | Updated 16 Apr, 2018 | Agile & learning organisations, Balanced Scorecard History
Strategy, Balanced Scorecards and Learning organisations To understand how learning fits in the balanced scorecard you have to have some history. Back when Norton formed Renaissance Worldwide with Kaplan as non-exec he had two other key directors (1994 I think). Harry...