News
Hopes and fears for the hybrid future | McKinsey & Company
Hopes and fears for the hybrid future Across the board, employees are eager for more flexibility, competitive compensation, and well-being once the pandemic is over—and conversely, they’re concerned that future work, regardless of whether it is on-site or remote, will fail to meet these needs.
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Events
Virtual Process Improvement - An Essential Tool for 2021 and Beyond Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Do you have processes? You need to improve and change them? You use something like Visio to map your processes? Have a look at this: Act fast each session will only have 12 tickets available.
A process map is a planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of work. Using process mapping software, maps show a series of events that produce an end result. The process map is also a great way to visualize the path of a workflow and can be used to help employees better understand the relationship between their work and the impact it has on the overall organization. It is a powerful tool for change.
But process mapping software and approaches have been hit hard by the COVID crisis. It is very hard to do a Post It session when people are remote and using Visio for remote workshops. But there were also lots of challenges with traditional mapping techniques before COVID
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Re:Engage 2021: Creating a Better Future of Work Tickets, Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite
An Immersive, 2-day Virtual Employee Engagement Event About this event Join some of the top thought leaders, academia, and influencers, June 8th & 9th , all while raising money for charity!
Re:Engage is back for a second year! Last year, our 2-day virtual Re:Engage experience drew in 2000+ attendees and raised $20,000 for charity. This year’s interactive event will build off of last year’s success and provide the engagement community with information and insights to make sense of this brave new world, as we emerge from the pandemic.
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Lean
Deep dive in a lean digital company #4 - Planet Lean
FEATURE – This month, the author learns how gemba walks happen in a digital environment, where the work and information are typically hidden in computers.
Words: Catherine Chabiron, lean author and member of Institut Lean France.
This is my fourth gemba dive into the Theodo group. In the first three articles in this series, we have seen how the company is improving its customer lead-time, effectively thinking out customer value, and recruiting and retaining talent. As you follow the progress of my investigation, I hope you are also able to experience some of the gemba fun I am having!
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Continuous Improvement
Computer Simulations Are Better — and More Affordable — than Ever
Computer Simulations Are Better — and More Affordable — than Ever by Willy C. Shih Summary. The plunging cost of simulation tools known as “digital twins” means that firms of all sizes can afford them. Their applications include operations planning and design, process improvement, closer collaboration between design and manufacturing, training, and...
Many large corporations have invested in digital twins: photorealistic virtual replicas of products or operations from the physical world. Modern personal computers and a new generation of software simulation tools can now bring these powerful modeling and visualization capabilities to small and mid-size firms as well. While they might not be quite the equivalent of their high-end brethren, they can help accelerate the ramp-up of new product designs into volume manufacturing and can facilitate continuous process improvement.
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Ideas
Wheel of Names | Random name picker
Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.
Want to add a bit of fun to your meetings then try the wheel of names. Great to add names and have a wheel of fortune picking a 'winner' or a next speaker.
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Help your employees find purpose--or watch them leave | McKinsey
If the tumult of 2020 has prompted your organization or leadership team to reconsider people priorities such as employee well-being, resilience, or purpose, then you’re in good company.
Your employees are reconsidering you, too.
Nearly two-thirds of US-based employees we surveyed said that COVID-19 has caused them to reflect on their purpose in life. And nearly half said that they are reconsidering the kind of work they do because of the pandemic. Millennials were three times more likely than others to say that they were reevaluating work.
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The Water of Systems Change | FSG
Foundations involved in systems change can increase their odds for success by focusing on the least explicit but most powerful conditions for change, while also turning the lens on themselves.
The Water of Systems Change aims to clarify what it means to shift these conditions. We offer the “inverted triangle” framework as an actionable model for funders and others interested in creating systems change, particularly those who are working to advance equity.
Top Takeaways Systems change is about advancing equity by shifting the conditions that hold a problem in place. To fully embrace systems change, funders should be prepared to see how their own ways of thinking and acting must change as well. Shifts in system conditions are more likely to be sustained when working at three different levels of change: explicit, semi-explicit, and implicit.
Read more and download the report
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What is my Strategy?
Want to build a quick and easy strategy the Simon Wardley way then try this out. Just refresh to get another one.
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LocalGov.co.uk - Your authority on UK local government - 'Digital twin' of Bradford city centre to be created
'Digital twin' of Bradford city centre to be created
A new project to virtually ‘clone’ Bradford city centre has been unveiled. Virtual Bradford will revolutionise how the council deals with planning, air pollution and traffic management. It will also allow the creation of heritage trails, virtual shops and virtual exhibitions.
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Home - Gamestorming
Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world.
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