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Insights and practical applications from the FlexPoint Consulting team around business transformation, technology modernization, process optimization, and more.
Reframing Key Business Concepts
Kim Ehrman and Michael Daehne share reframed -- and sometimes counterintuitive -- perspectives on critical business topics like integration, work-life balance, and career advancement.
Having a Spicy Kickoff is Better than Silence
A project kickoff meeting can be boring, or it can be helpful. Kim Ehrman shares why it’s good to embrace pointed feedback plus how the FlexPoint Consulting team creates the conditions for productive heat in project kickoff meetings.
Making Time for What’s Important
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.
Lessons in Leadership from Habitat for Humanity
Business Transformation Consultant, Henry Howard, shares stories from his rewarding experience volunteering with Habitat for Humanity on Saturdays and many lessons learned on the construction site that translate to consulting and vice versa.
De-Risking Tool Selection and Implementation
Business Transformation Consultant, Henry Howard, shares tried-and-true techniques throughout a ten-stage process of selecting and implementing an enterprise platform. This comprehensive post covers everything from negotiating, scoping, migration, and celebrating after launch.
Planning Your Transformation
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.
Applying the Hero’s Journey Restorying Intervention
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!).
Ready for Your Next Inflection Point?
Kim Ehrman shares a series of audit questions and tips for success around preparing for the next big turning point in your business, including how your team works together, how you deliver as promised, using strategic stretch roles, and prioritizing finances.
Ninja Warrior and Business Transformation
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.
How to See the Forest for the Trees in Transformation
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.
Navigating Transformation with Creativity and Courage
Fifty-four years later this month, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne reflects on the creativity and courage required
to navigate a moment of crisis in Apollo 8 -- and how we can apply
lessons learned to transformation challenges.
A Recipe for Effective Change Management
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.
How to Fix Program Status Reports
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.
Beating the Odds: Resolutions & Transformations
As a new year begins, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne shares tips for making your big transformation initiative (and your new year’s resolution) a resounding success.
Tips & Tricks to Avoid Being Spooked by Transformation
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.
Business Transformation Lessons from the UTSA Roadrunners
FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne applies lessons from the UT San Antonio Roadrunners to excelling through transformation. They start with “culture eats strategy for breakfast” and end with “don’t eat the cheese!”
Five Lessons for the Cloud ERP Journey
In light of the common difficulties in adopting a new platform, FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne shares five key tactics to de-risk your Cloud ERP journey and increase the probability of an on-time, on-budget, high-quality implementation.