Tag Archives: Best practice

Health Check: Does a Communication Gap Exist in My Organisation?

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Eugen Oetringer

Over the past two decades, and with business environments becoming increasingly complex, the technique of breaking complex challenges into supposedly manageable parts became popular. This worked well initially. It still works well when root causes of problems are located within … Continue reading →

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How to Reduce Bureaucracy and Complexity: You Can Start Today

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Eugen Oetringer

If we know what creates bureaucracy as well as complexity, we should be able to reduce it, shouldn’t we? Let’s explore this through a specific example. If situation = X, then do Y: When we look at how instructions, processes, and … Continue reading →

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Want to Change Culture? Do Not Start A Culture Change Project!

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Eugen Oetringer

Start a culture change project and it will fail. Solve the problems that hide behind cultural matters and related cultural matters disappear. The latter happened when a leading IT services organisation successfully identified and solved problems that were undermining employee … Continue reading →

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We Selected the Simple Solution. The Complex Solution Became a Worldwide Standard – Part II

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Eugen Oetringer

Part I identified lessons learned from a complex challenge. One lesson was that projects failed and were restarted for the same reasons. Part II explores how project failure for the same reason became normal. Until the mid-1990s, the data centres … Continue reading →

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