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Archive for March, 2009

Improving Your Business Through Changes in Efficiency: Moving from Gut Feel to Gut Fact

Posted in Process Improvement, tagged , , , on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Identifying ways of improving your business, including changes in efficiency and procedure can be a daunting task. It is very easy to see the routines and methods which you’re applying and earnestly following as immovable. Yet often it is the very aspects of your business which you believe immovable and essential which can be causing [...]

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How to Become an Effective Leader

Posted in Leadership, tagged , , , , , on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Day to Day, do you get derailed because things aren’t developing as your think they should or could? Do you see people hanging around achieving little. In the daily push and shove, do you sense that you’re not moving towards your goals and objectives at all. If this is the case, perhaps it’s time for [...]

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Peter Drucker, Redux

Posted in Management, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Peter Drucker was perhaps one of the most respected management thinkers. He died at the age of 97 in 2006, but his ideas still live on. Management: External Information “The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside. The results of a business are satisfied customers. [...]

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Crisis Management Strategies for a Slipping Economy

Posted in Management, tagged , , , on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A good economy often makes it more difficult to recognize where potential problems lie. This means many crises may lay dormant, just waiting to hop out at you when things get rough. Properly identifying, managing and documenting the crises as they arise will help prevent future problems. A good economy often makes it more difficult [...]

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March 2009 Strategic Innovation Newsletter

Posted in Newsletters, tagged , , , on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Strategic Innovation Newsletter A free monthly newsletter on leadership, strategy and innovation. Back issues are archived for free downloading at www.DanielLockConsulting.com. Welcome This morning I conducted a breakfast briefing on the subject of change and transition. I applaud the attendees who engaged in lively debate and discussion, not so much for their willingness to be [...]

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Does Your Business Have the Strategic Agility Required to Survive?

Posted in Articles, Strategy, tagged , , , on March 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »

The world of business innovation and strategic planning is ever-changing and always evolving into something new and exciting. Does your business have the strategic agility to survive the world-wide recession of 2008 and onward? “It’s an ever-changing world,” you’ve heard the statement, but has it really sunk in yet? The world of business innovation and [...]

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