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!).

We’re thrilled to be honored with the 2023 Best of America Small Business Award in the Best Startup track. Thanks to everyone who voted for us and cheered us on!

As Halloween approaches and costume plans come together, Rachel Rubin shares some common disguises masking business and technology challenges. These include low adoption, perfect metric attainment, and immediate agreement.

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.

Kim Ehrman describes four practical steps for team members to cover each other well during time away from work. These include sharing transparent lists and resources, early practice and intentional overlap, as well as setting clear expectations and authority.

Michael Daehne shares how FlexPoint takes a different approach to growth than many consulting firms: we do great work for our clients and trust that they will help us grow by referring us to colleagues, friends, and family who may be facing similar challenges.

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.

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.

Aarushi Gupta describes her spring internship with FlexPoint, including the process of getting to know a new team, contributing to client and internal efforts, and learning a lot along the way!

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.

Michael Daehne describes the framework we use when working with new executives to set their team up for long-term success. Using a structured approach helps to make sure we don’t miss an important element among the many details of navigating a new role.

Kim Ehrman shares how guidance given on writing an important email relates to several powerful business concepts that come in unlikely pairs, including paradoxical leadership skills and featured pairings in the Agile manifesto.

Henry Howard shares lessons learned from his time at FlexPoint, starting with joining as a new team member last summer, finding a sense of belonging, and enjoying the collective growth of his team, company, and personal perspective.

Aarushi Gupta shares the benefits of employee engagement, proven methods for fostering it, and how she’s experienced these topics through her internships with Apple and FlexPoint Consulting.

Kim Ehrman shares how to build -- and rebuild -- trust within professional teams, leveraging Brené Brown’s BRAVING framework from Dare to Lead and Charles Feltman’s four distinctions of trust from The Thin Book of Trust.

Kim Ehrman connects her middle school band experience to talent management principles. She concludes that their success stemmed from having an inspiring leader who encouraged them to have a growth mindset, along with exemplifying GRPI.

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.