Archives: Process
Qairos: Architecting an Ontology of Flow
What if the central problem in project execution is not poor reporting, weak discipline, or inconsistent delivery, but the fact that the underlying system was never designed to understand flow in the first place? Qairos starts from a different premise: that work should be modelled not merely as tasks, but as a living system of
Measurably reliable and agile
Few performance standards deliver the competitive advantage you gain by keeping your promise to deliver on time, doing so faster than your competitors, and suffering no defects while you’re about it.
Six questions for financial performance
Who wouldn’t want more for less? More profit from less investment? More government services for fewer taxes? More charity work for less administrative overhead? But what measures will help us hit or exceed our productivity ambitions?
mediumProductively safe where the worker meets the work
Zero harm is a universal aspiration. But you can be perfectly safe and go perfectly broke. How can we ensure the best chance of achieving zero harm while providing a sustainable and competitive return to our shareholders?
Integrating Work
Integrated work management and systems thinking are two sides of the same coin. Since constraints govern the rate at which systems deliver value, the imperative, if maximising value is your goal, is to know the whole – that is, the system – but focus on the constraint.
Work is Work
As supply chains rupture and decarbonisation becomes imperative, companies in vital industries are feeling squeezed and falling behind. To succeed, they must move quickly from a traditional to an integrated approach to managing work, then beyond to ‘quantum work management’.
