by Michael Menard | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Post
If we cannot avoid living in a world that drenches us with information – still, we can and must select for our processing the information that is likely to be useful to us and ignore the rest.- Herbert Simon Herbert Simon was one of those multidisciplinary luminaries... 
by Michael Menard | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog Post
Organizations are like living organisms. Bill Gates makes this point in his book Business @ the Speed of Thought. Organisms and organizations both have a central nervous system. One is somatic, the other metaphorical. The body is a dynamic and living messaging system.... 
by Michael Menard | Feb 17, 2022 | Blog Post
Constraints have increased and so has demand for sustainable value. In good times there was a wide margin of error. Sometimes even seat-of-the-pants decision-making works, but so does winning at the casino. Both are unreliable and usually unrepeatable. Gambling with... 
by Michael Menard | Feb 11, 2022 | Blog Post
The best-in-class project-selection process reduces complexity and accelerates good decision making. Complexity is a problem all of us have to deal with. And it’s a problem that’s not going away anytime soon. The scientific law of entropy show’s the universe’s... 
by Michael Menard | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog Post
“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” – George Santayana. In the absence of a holistic view of your entire portfolio of projects and lack of defined process, you rely on guesswork. Under pressure or through...
