Centre for Business Performance
Is performance in the eye of the beholder?
Do you ever wonder whether the colour you call “blue” is the same as the colour other people call “blue”? I now understand that it may not be the case. Colour doesn’t really exist. Light exists ...
Ever wondered what your organisation does to its employees?
We’ll continue our story about Mission Command vs Command & Control next time. But following on from the previous blog where we introduced the idea of making employees accountable (fix the blame) without responsibility (fix ...
Military Tactics and Command & Control – Fact or Myth?
A few weeks ago we looked at the way the military works and concluded that they do not practice what is commonly regarded as “Command & Control” – but instead use something referred to as ...
Playing the Procurement Game – why rigid procurement rules increase risk!
As a supplier to the public and private sector there appear to be some significant idiosyncrasies associated with public sector procurement! No this is not a long list of frustrations experienced by private sector companies ...
Devolved vs Centralised Approach to Management – or why Napoleon lost to the Prussians (second time around)!
You may recall our previous blog “New Operating Models – do they deliver the claimed benefits (Or never place rocks next to hard places!)”https://cranfieldcbp.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/new-operating-models-do-they-deliver-the-claimed-benefits-or-never-place-rocks-next-to-hard-places/ That blog considered organisations changing their target operating models. We’ve ...
New Operating Models – do they deliver the claimed benefits? (Or, never place rocks next to hard places!)
On our travels, we often see organisations declaring they’re using new operating models (or they’re about to). Someone, somewhere will have done some calculations, simulations or forecasting and arrived at the conclusion “we need to ...