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A selection of insights to reflect on and boost ideas.
An Organized Decision: Key Elements of a Decision
There are many types of decisions, but they all share a few common features. Here, the four key elements to consider before making a decision.
How to focus only on good projects?
In a world of scarce resources, portfolio management is key to maintaining a balance between the project’s risks and returns. But this is much more complex than simply applying some…
Stupid meetings, how to eliminate them?
More and more business executives and collaborators complain about the time required for meetings. Calendars full of long meetings scheduled more and more in advance, agendas and schedules that are…
How to stretch the blanket? Using optimization tools – Part I
There are always more projects to implement or good ideas to execute than there are resources to carry them out. Or by not neglecting any project, valuable resources are consumed,…
Empowerment vs. Impoverishment: How to delegate without suffocating in the attempt?
All bosses delegate mechanical and routine tasks such as information searches. But how many dare to actually delegate decision making?
How to align support areas with the business?
There is a tradition of enmity between support and business areas. But it does not necessarily have to be this way. Here, a series of guidelines to ensure that line…
Deciding to do more with less. How to move towards a portfolio management culture? – Part II
Portfolio methodologies make it possible to optimize in a more efficient way the allocation of resources to products, assets, projects, channels, and other variables in order to maximize the value…
Hurry, a decision must be made
The prevailing cultural model in business holds that leaders have to be people who make decisions in the blink of an eye. However, gut decisions often fail and do not…
Opinionists and silent naysayers, how to avoid these two great evils of companies?
The opinionist speaks without knowing and delays decisions that seemed already made. The silent naysayer never opposes, and later becomes defensive: “I never agreed with this decision”. How to avoid…