Business Strategy

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you.             You know what they’re saying: “You don’t pay the plumber to bang on the pipes.  You pay for knowing WHERE to bang.”             Business is a conduit and its THROUGHPUT is

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you.             An old friend of mine likes to quip in jest: Be Reasonable; Do It My Way!The number of times I thought of using that line when decision makers share how they

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems (https://lnkd.in/dTUF2A7P)? Well, that’s what this series of posts is about.             Did you know that the working title of THE ROOT CAUSE was CEO ADVENTURE?Why would you; how could you? However, starting with a “did-you-know” question seems

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems (https://lnkd.in/dTUF2A7P)? So, let me tell you.             Before even starting this post, I ask you upfront to excuse my Dutchness―we tend to be direct in the sense that we neither beat about the bush nor do any

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems (https://lnkd.in/dTUF2A7P)? So, let me tell you.             Who can relate to having an epiphany, when scattered pieces of a puzzle came together, only to reveal a clear and coherent picture? That experience occurred to me when studying

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems (https://lnkd.in/dTUF2A7P)? So, let me tell you.             The advantage of coming to live and work in a foreign country is exposure to new and different customs, practices, thinkers and their ideas. Some will resonate with you whereas

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you.             Back at university in good old Amsterdam, I once noticed a connection between what the professor in Finance said with what the professor in Marketing had said previously.             Looking to verify

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you.             The CEO of a commercial real estate brokerage firm asked me to help him replace a series of separate (Act) databases with a single one. Het never told me that what he

            People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you.             What is your FIRST reaction when everyone agrees there is a BIG problem, and everyone denies making any mistakes; they are just doing their jobs?             I was assigned that project

The function of a business is to trade products and/or services for money; to exchange use value for cash value. BUT, do you know how much value (utility) you create? Business is a system; a network of nodes and their connections, which facilitate the function for which the business was intended. Think of nodes as