Comments for Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire http://www.colin-beveridge.com joined-up management for a joined-up world ™ by Colin Beveridge Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:16:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on is that an excuse, or a reason? by Stuart King http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/is-that-an-excuse-or-a-reason/comment-page-1/#comment-11537 Stuart King Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:16:35 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=3024#comment-11537 Something we learned very early on in the RAF was the mantra "no excuses, only results." Excuses have no value to anybody and certainly don't serve the business. However, it's a hard lesson to teach and an even harder one to learn... Something we learned very early on in the RAF was the mantra “no excuses, only results.” Excuses have no value to anybody and certainly don’t serve the business. However, it’s a hard lesson to teach and an even harder one to learn…

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]]> Comment on Getting carried away by transformation by Shawn Fields http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/getting-carried-away-by-transformation/comment-page-1/#comment-11350 Shawn Fields Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:42:30 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=3011#comment-11350 I disagree - transformation does not in and of itself mean "significant" change. Change is transformation, and transformation is change. What you're refering to is "strategic" change and/or transformation. There's also operational, technical and process transformation - ideally, these are dictated by a strategic change, but not always - some may be just transformational "improvement" in an existing "item." In your example re: washing machines, you say that if a company makes washing machines, but decides to improve the quality of those same washing machines, that is not transformation. I disagree. What if that quality improvement increases the MTBF of those washing machines by 100%, and that 100% improvement causes the company's market share to rise by 5%? Is that not transformation? I would submit it is... My frustration is that people don't want to use the "term" transformation because they've seen too many failed "transformation" efforts. By that definition, every time some project fails, we should stop using the name "project." I disagree – transformation does not in and of itself mean “significant” change. Change is transformation, and transformation is change.

What you’re refering to is “strategic” change and/or transformation. There’s also operational, technical and process transformation – ideally, these are dictated by a strategic change, but not always – some may be just transformational “improvement” in an existing “item.”

In your example re: washing machines, you say that if a company makes washing machines, but decides to improve the quality of those same washing machines, that is not transformation. I disagree. What if that quality improvement increases the MTBF of those washing machines by 100%, and that 100% improvement causes the company’s market share to rise by 5%? Is that not transformation? I would submit it is…

My frustration is that people don’t want to use the “term” transformation because they’ve seen too many failed “transformation” efforts. By that definition, every time some project fails, we should stop using the name “project.”

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