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Encouraging creative, nimble, profitable organizations
Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s search for meaning is elemental. Once determined, all is possible. It is the secret to a fulfilled and purposeful life. Without it, we are empty or lost. It is the same with any organism, including organizations.
Markets and Creativity
Most systems in traditional organizations are well crafted closed systems. It has relatively few interactions of cognitive dissonance, and virtually no capacity to adapt to it as a matter of course. The market moves on. The product either moves as well, or slowly ages. Our marketing efforts do not measure the organism; they measure the skeleton of the organism. The vast majority of managers have no idea where their largest growth opportunities are. How could they?
Charts, ABC and Benchmarks
The foundation of accounting systems is key to low ongoing maintenance, key information, and efficiency. It is always more efficient to reconstitute the accounting function than consume IT and operational departments with workarounds and specialty programming to overcome foundational deficiencies. Avoid the band-aid approach; it bloats methodologies and software code (requiring their own maintenance cost), consumes time, and generally confuses the enterprise.