Think Different - Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions

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February 6, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

A fishbone might save your business

I loved using Ishikawa or "Fishbone" diagrams (named after Kaoru Ishikawa who became one of the guru's of modern management in the 1960s after he pioneered the use of them in quality management processes in the Kawasaki shipyards). It was like peeling an onion, carefully taking each layer of a problem and figuring out what had caused the problems we were seeing at the time so that we understood the cause. Once we understood the cause we could decide what our next course of action was; was it something we could fix and move on, or had something changed meaning that our landscape had altered and our course of action needed to change?

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Nina Dar

January 30, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Economy, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

Benefits cap – rejected, no game changing ambition and poor ROI

Everyday we work on game changing ideas for big business. They are always for commercial gain and there to prove we are stretching beyond what exists today, taking on impossible thinking, innovating and being future facing. I'm happy to say that there has been recent energy surge for this, as if business has finally acknowledged that there is no point in waiting, being risk adverse isn't going to cut it, bring out the ballsy thinking!

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Nina Dar

January 23, 2012 in Communication, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

Do you wear the horns of destiny? Gong Xi Fa Cai & Gong Hey Fat Choy!

Innovative in spirit, Monkeys get a helping hand in 2012 from the Year of the Dragon. Opportunities for growth are many and doing things for the general good of those around is recommended. Research/study and taking on activities to push their own personal growth will be on the anvil and prove exciting. With a taste for adventure and their love of partying, Monkeys will be wearing their social hats, throwing many a swanky do or taking trips around the world.

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Nina Dar

January 9, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

Choose to believe and look for the glue

I wanted to write about the 100th Anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) but felt deflated because it was a movement that changed a country but I couldn't hand on heart say that it's transition to being a political party has been the success that it should have been and the allegations of corruption and political infighting are a far cry from the dignity of Nelson Mandela's inclusive rainbow nation.

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Nina Dar

December 12, 2011 in Communication, Economy, Leadership, Motivation

Europe we are a chicken not a pyg(my) – right?

The role we play in Europe is critical to us all, we need to understand the decisions that are being made and the consequences of those actions and we need to make those decisions openly, while exercising leadership in this international forum.

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Michael Ryan

December 7, 2011 in Change Management, PLM, Transformational Change

Make Do and Mend

I’m not that old but I can remember a time when you wouldn’t lightly scrap something and replace it without seeing if it could be repaired first.

As austerity hits, more people are looking for ways to save money by repairing their essentials; resoling shoes, mending clothes, etc.

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Nina Dar

December 5, 2011 in Change Management, Economy, NPD, PLM, Transformational Change

Sustainable PLM & the $1 project?

How are you looking forward to see who your future customers are and how you are going to reach them no matter how unrealistic that may sound? May be everyone should start a $1 project...

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