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Planning Kickoffs Yes - we do them. We have some in the
can, we can modify prior ones to emphasize your specific needs, and we can custom build
one for you from scratch. Topics include the issues and methods for
developing enterprise agility, decision-making psychological behavior,
value propositioning skills, and agile information security strategy
considerations.
Inquire by email to Decision Making and Value Propositioning. Arm your Decision Champions and your Decision Makers with an eye-opening dose of reality from the Value Propositioning book series. Material drawn from the first book covers the fundamentals and psychological behaviors of decision making and value propositioning. It explains how and why decision making happens the way it does. For the learner, whether Decision Maker or Decision Champion, it points out the path to improvement. Material drawn from the second book (not yet published) addresses the personal development of a Champion's competency and talent at value propositioning. Presentations can be tailored for keynotes, seminars, workshops and meeting stimulation - for decision makers and for decision champions. New Year Thought Provokers. Need a kickoff for a planning session? Want some context for a strategy
development meeting? Rick Dove is previewing the results of ten years of research into
highly adaptable organizations and practices, with case examples and principles for
designing response able organizations, business practices, process, and products.
These concepts come from his book for John Wiley and Sons, titled Response
Ability: The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise. Entertaining
and thought provoking, presentations can be formatted for luncheon and keynote overviews,
or for two to six hour seminar sessions with or without working exercises.
Inquire by
email to Design Principles for the Response Able
Enterprise - The agile enterprise is able to respond to
opportunity and threat with the immediacy and grace of a cat prowling its territory. This
response able competency is accentuated or inhibited by organizational design. Ten
structural design principles that enable agile enterprise are discussed, using real
examples from eight years of analytical research into a wide variety of highly adaptable
business systems. Examples range from product and process architecture to organizational
architecture. The principles are generic systems engineering concepts and are appropriate
for building adaptable systems of any kind at any level in an organization: production
process, business practice, manufacturing, product architecture, or business and
organizational strategy. Seminars can be directed and customized for manufacturing,
engineering, IT, human resource, management, strategist, and executive interests. Inquire
by email to Creating The Response Able Environment - Ten years of research investigated adaptable organizations, business
practices, and production processes - attempting to find the underlying principles at
work. High "response ability" is shown to stem from two components: a structure
that enables reconfiguration and a culture that facilitates change proficiency. The seeds
of both structural and cultural components have been found in virtually every company
analyzed, whether or not the company explicitly recognizes and leverages this knowledge as
a competency. This seminar reviews conclusions and tools coming from the research, and
describes a methodology for finding and leveraging this inherent knowledge in any
organization. This seminar draws upon Rick Dove's book for John Wiley and Sons - titled Response
Ability: The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise. Seminars can
be formatted for luncheon and keynote overviews, or for two to six hour sessions with or
without working exercises. Inquire by email to Response Ability - Building Change Proficiency Maturity Profiles - An introductory seminar providing executive and management overviews of the concepts and procedures used in building Change Proficiency Maturity Profile (see below for details). Response Ability - Implementing Stealth Knowledge Management - An introductory seminar providing executive and management overviews of the concepts and procedures used in implementing and supporting stealth knowledge management and communities of practice (see below for details). WorkshopsPrivate and public workshops employing Realsearch methods are a primary
activity for us. Custom engagements can be designed for management teams, departments,
supplier groups, your partners, or your industry sector. Intense workshop leadership and
facilitation experience since 1986 has evolved an effective methodology for creating new
knowledge, solving real problems, and developing participant-personal insights into
problems and their solutions. A considerable body of methodology and application activity
is explained in our Realsearch executive overview and its
links. We will custom design workshops that can range from a small group of top executives
building business strategies to any size group engaged in business analysis, process
analysis, reengineering, or business practice development. Inquire by email to
The Discovery Workshop Series - a cost-effective way to design response able innovative business practices and develop new competencies. A 3-day workshop augments traditional thought of internal participants with objective viewpoints and experiences of selected outsiders. This accelerates the progress of internal learning and broadens the effectiveness of results. Realsearch is a workshop channeling process that helps people solve business problems effectively while developing deep, fundamental insights. It structures the learning, application, and communication of fundamental principles - guiding participants toward unique, robust, attainable solutions - and leaves a legacy of new management competency. Benefits Include:
Response Ability - Building Change Proficiency Maturity Profiles How agile are you? Which of your business practices must be more change
proficient? Are your critical areas response able enough? To establish agility as
a preemptive business strategy, or design a change proficiency improvement strategy, it is
first necessary to know how proficient you are in critical business practices. We will
help you identify your critical business practices for agility, and help you measure your
proficiency in each of these areas. We can do it for you if you prefer, be we prefer to do
it with you. Profiles can be focused - on critical manufacturing, supply-chain,
or product development practices and processes, for instance - or broadly applied across a
division, corporation, or even an entire industry. See the Maturity
Reference Model for an example of one company profiled across 24 critical business
practices. Profiling projects can be used to introduce and sensitize the corporation and
key people to agility concepts and metrics, as well as providing a benchmark of
proficiency and a roadmap for improvement. Introductory seminars are available to provide
executive and management overviews of the concepts and procedures. Inquire by email to
Consulting, Contract-Employment, and Interim-Executive Change Management: Strategy, Implementation, and Development Projects Projects taken on by Paradigm Shift International (PSI) range from the
one extreme of team leadership or team guidance of your resources - to pure turn-key
development with our resources, and include interim-executive positions
where hands-on change management and strategy implementation is needed. We prefer collaborative working styles, however. We seek
project work that is interesting to us - generally this means it is a learning experience
which generates new and valuable knowledge about business strategy and practice under
conditions of change. We are analyzers, planners, developers, and managers - with strong
strategic planning talents. We bring specially developed analysis and design tools,
effective team guidance procedures, and a pragmatic get-it-done twist that comes from
real-life bottom-line responsibility. Inquire by email to Effective Use of Non-Employee Knowledge Workers
& Outsourced IP Development - Short on knowledge worker
talent? Ready to rethink how outside resources can be harnessed effectively? Talent does
make a difference, and isn't interested in your company's retirement plan. Let us help you
design an effective and strategic interface, and supporting management practices, for
outsourced knowledge work and intellectual property development. We'll guide you through a
collaborative development process that employs response ability analysis and
design principles to create a strategy and business practice custom-fit to your needs and
opportunities. Inquire by email to Implementing Stealth Knowledge Management - Knowledge management and
communities of practice have become a focused interest for many companies. Too often this
intense focus develops new bureaucracies and new procedures that distort a pervasive
natural practice into some artificial and idyllic abstraction. Let us help you design a
strategy that recognizes what you already have, and augment it with culturally-compatible
support and nurturing. The result is an evolution of concepts already in place and
comfortable within your organizational culture - and an effective knowledge management
practice that supports the strategic and operational needs of real people. For conceptual
background see essays 53 and 54. Introductory seminars are available to provide
executive and management overviews of the concepts and procedures. Inquire by email to
Let us augment your management training curriculum with 1/2-day to
multiple-day sessions on business adaptability needs, awareness, and strategies for
general business planning, product development, agile manufacturing and production,
knowledge management, change management, human assets, supply chains, and more. Inquire by
email to Keynotes and Other Speaking Engagements Rick Dove will open your conference, motivate your team, entertain your
business-dinner guests, or set the stage for your strategic planning session. He will talk
about today or the can't-escape-it future. He'll talk about strategy, technology,
information systems, education, production, business practices, human relations, supplier
relations, decision making, security reality considerations, and just plane common sense. He will talk about your business and your markets
-- and it will be entertaining as well as informative. All engagements are custom
designed. Call Rick Dove at 505-586-1536 or inquire by email to |
Consulting & Contract Employment - Critical-Project Start-Up Need some extra talent right now? Have a critical project or strategy to build and implement? Or simply want a strawman to kick-start an internal program? Hire Rick Dove to lead or help you with design, start-up, and turn-over of a strategy or critical project. He brings proven strategic thought, knowledge, hands-on experience, and a get-it-done attitude. His motivation: He has spent the last twelve years as a thought leader in analyzing and developing principles for highly responsive enterprise, and seeks hands-on opportunities to apply what he has learned to meaningful and critical projects and strategies. He will work on or off-site, in a group or independently, will travel, will work part-time or nearly-full-time as a contract employee or as a consultant. He will direct, manage, facilitate, or assist. Compensation, working relationship, and duration are all negotiable.
Interests:
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