One very effective way to take stock of past successes and challenges and begin to plan your company’s 2024 initiatives is to do a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of your company and its functional areas. This post explains how.
How often have you been in a brainstorming session only to come out of it thinking “What a waste of time!” Patrick Seaton dissects Mismanaged Brainstorm Session Syndrome and how to address it in this informative post.
This post discusses the importance of having identities for the organization and departments. That is the “what”. Regarding the “how” to do that, you might have your own tools.
In an update to my post about workload and task management in departments, I share findings from conversations I’ve had with organizations and consultants. Among other things, I concluded that a department that has priorities and workloads changing every so many months finds it challenging to follow the company’s strategic changes and initiatives.
In an update to his post about process analysis and improvement, Patrick Seaton shares the difference between Process Analysis and Process Improvement and the “what” as opposed to the “how”. Read on and learn.
