the indigo blog 2009 July

The de Bono Weekly Message - Think - before it’s too late

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

My latest book is called ‘THINK: before it is too late’. In it I suggest that the biggest problem facing humanity is not climate change but inadequate thinking. We are very complacent and even proud of our thinking. We can land men on the moon, we can tap atomic energy, we have the internet, we have supersonic flight etc. We have done very well in the area of science and technology because we have developed ‘thinking for finding the truth’.

I have suggested the new word ‘ebne’ which means ‘excellent but not enough’. Our existing thinking is ‘ebne’ but not enough. We have never developed ‘thinking for creating value‘.

In conflicts we rush to judge who is wrong and seek to punish that party. We do not try to design a way forward.

Dr Edward de Bono - 20th July 2009

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Lean project management – isn’t that the point?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

When an organisation needs to make a strategic improvement, it needs to flex its project management muscles. Good project managers get to work defining and planning the project – identifying key deliverables. The deliverables are the benefits that will be derived from the successful implementation of the project.

Now I am certain that, at this crucial scoping point of the project, no-one takes the opposing view to the Lean principles and says: “let’s make this project as expensive as possible, take up huge amounts of time and not deliver the value to the organisation and its customers”. Surely, every organisation wants to deliver projects as efficiently as possible with excellent results???

Herein lies the problem. Every organisation wants to do this, but most do not usually know how. It requires creativity. There, we said it. The discipline of project management, which is often perceived as a ‘hard skill’ and filled with templates and Gantt charts, needs creativity to be delivered with a lean approach. Does your organisation know how to take creativity seriously and come up with new ideas?

de Bono’s Simplicity workshop applies Lateral Thinking™ tools to come up with new ideas to streamline process and projects. It’s a value-based model that delivers not just a ‘lean philosophy’, but also systematic methods for turning this into a workable solution.

Stop just talking lean, and get your organisation down the gym.

James.

James Arnum-White

Senior Consultant

t. 020 7924 8760

e. jamesaw@indigobusiness.co.uk

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Fog on the Leith! Writing Dynamics to the rescue!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

June 30th 2009.

Just back from a successful Writing Dynamics workshop at Malmaison hotel in the Leith Docks of Edinburgh. One of the aims of the programme is to help people cut down the amount of waffle, jargon and cliche in their writing. We call it defogging your writing. The sea mist, or haaras the locals call it, gave me a great photo opportunity to illustrate the benefits of clearer writing. Take out the piffle and tosh that fogs up our writing and what’s left stands out clearer and brighter. A haar.

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