CI framework in automation strategy

Automation is an essential pillar of productivity strategy since it has a significant impact on the three core elements of performance “lead-time”, “touch-time” and “right first time”. Organizations don’t have to choose between time or quality because with automation it is possible to reduce SLAs increasing throughput and delivery performance while creating sustainable capacity as…

A Recognition Culture

Recognitions offer organizations great opportunities to increase not only people’s engagement but also enablement. While rewards have an impact on people’s rational brain and are highly structured as well as regulated by organizational, legal and market scales; recognitions find people’s emotional brain as a target whereas they are neither structured nor regulated. Moreover, recognitions allow…

The Art of Coaching

Coaching is one of the greatest challenges facing agile transformations that most organizations are going through. Although it can be adapted to life and organizational settings within individual or team frameworks, a transformation in the leadership style is required. Whereas Coaching is compatible with almost all leadership models, especially with the situational one, it demands…

“Organizational Readiness” for the agile journey

Unfortunately, there are many barriers for the agile journey. The Neo-liberal macro-economic framework has not only centred organizational purpose on profit but also on short term goals. Globalization has led to dissociate employees from customers and to create unstable and sometimes “unfair” employment conditions with an impact on organizational behaviour which has made of the…

Greatest challenges facing digital transformations

To begin with, among the benefits from the industrial automation were lower productive costs with significantly increased in both capacity and productivity. Although digital transformation is not limited to the “Office”, it is precisely on these environments where its outcomes are quite like those from the industrial automation. Moreover, the pursued outcomes are almost the…

Motivational leadership and culture

Most organizations are looking forward to developing motivational leadership to drive their agile transformation. It is often said that newly hired employees are highly motivated while they need to develop the competencies required for the new role. Usually during the process of developing new competences within organizations people lose their internal motivation and they need…

High-performance culture: Can be sustainable?

Organization’s people are transformation’s living component, therefore present challenges but at the same time also bring more possibilities to develop unique competitive advantages by creating a sustainable high-performance culture. Since digital business transformations have centred organizations on technology and it is quite common to confound “stable” with “standard” within the agile operating model, the combined…