Pedro Cortez reflects what we can learn from his son’s (temporary!) set-backs in Ninja competitions, including tenacity, preparing thoroughly, and resisting reacting in panic when things go wrong.

What is one of the most important elements of a discovery session? Keen insights? Not quite. A bingo on the consulting jargon card? Nope. Kim Ehrman argues that it is silence, so we can give space for everyone to think and truly learn from the discussion.

Kim Ehrman describes four key elements of FlexPoint discovery sessions, semi-structured conversations where we know the topic of interest but we truly don’t know what we’ll find out along the way.

Kim Ehrman shares details from a car running into her house and draws lessons learned for consultants and clients based on the experience.

Many of us feel like we spend a lot of time talking about work but not actually making progress toward our goals. Kim Ehrman shares how to shake up your typical ways of working and set up an almost-no-meetings week, focused on making progress.

If everything is a priority, how do you choose what to do first? Product management expert Pedro Cortez shares four ways to pick the next focus area, when finite resources leave more priorities than can be addressed right now.

Business readiness experts, Pedro Cortez and Liz Pryor, describe key elements in planning a transformative effort. They share questions to ask, guidance, and examples around program structures, testing, defect management, training, and much more.

Strategy and visioning expert Kim Ehrman shares thoughts on defining a business transformation, including success criteria, risk management, and more. Key outputs of this stage are a future state vision and a transformation roadmap.

Business readiness experts, Liz Pryor and Pedro Cortez, share thoughts on prepping your org for transformation. They share questions to ask, guidance, and examples around prioritization, work management, alignment, and more.

Building on our podcast from last week, Kim Ehrman applies the hero's journey restorying intervention that Ben Rogers and fellow researchers to developed to find meaning in our work (and life!).

Kim Ehrman shares five targeted investments for CIOs to include in the 2024 budget, focused on helping teams deliver better and setting IT up for long-term success. These include an IT Strategy Workshop, a Demand Management Optimization effort, and more.

Pedro Cortez shares an edge-of-your-seat story from his son's Ninja Warrior world championship competition, along with the business transformation lessons it reminded him of.

Kim Ehrman shares four recommendations to realize lasting benefits without scope creep: specify a clear and compelling why, create an intuitive and accessible backlog, build in scalability, and embrace structured continuous improvement.

Rachel Rubin reflects on how to avoid workarounds in architecture and code based on her experience in consulting and technology firms. She recommends fostering a culture that prioritizes clean coding and building in safeguards like tech debt clean-up sprints.

Kim Ehrman shares techniques to see the forest for the trees across transformation programs, and ultimately to drive transformational success. These include welcoming and heeding various perspectives, minding the gaps between workstreams, and more.

Kim Ehrman shares the essential ingredients of change management, along with some of the personalizations and updates we’ve scribbled in the margins of change strategies and plans over the years, to help you in driving out effective change where it matters most.

Michael Daehne shares four things to include in a status report, focusing on what will actually predict project success. These include team dynamic & collaboration, customer engagement & alignment, solution clarity, and what’s keeping people awake at night.

As Halloween approaches, Michael Daehne shares tips to avoid being “spooked” by your business transformation initiative. These include: beware the ghosts of past projects, don’t treat “the way we do things around here” as hallowed ground, and more.