Setting the Stage for Smarter Transformation – How SaaS can power Stage Gating Using stage gates to guide your initiatives through to completion is like guiding a ship through rough waters using a map to tell you exactly where you are at all stages of the journey. Stage gates serve as the milestones in your […]

KPIs that matter – measuring success for your initiative You’ve created a great initiative. Everyone has agreed to the initiative, resources are in place – things are looking good. But before you dive headfirst into execution, there’s one crucial question to answer: How will you measure success?  KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are the compass guiding

Idea Feedback Loops: “Closing the Loop: Why Feedback Fuels Idea Programs” If you ask guests to bring their favorite dish to a dinner and then ignore their contribution, never acknowledging their effort – how likely are those guests to enthusiastically contribute the next time? This is what happens when feedback is absent from an idea

Stage gating is used to manage an initiative through it’s lifecycle and is used to ensure that the initiative needs to pass through each gate before being allowed to progress to the next stage. The number of stages and gates can vary depending on if the organization wants to use a simple workflow for Continuous

When we’re defining an initiative a really useful exercise is to define the current state and then what we want the future state to look like. This helps frame what exactly needs to be changed and the work plan will then simply fall out from this. In other words, if we know what needs to

First, why even create an implementation plan ? what do we achieve  ? The main reason for completing a good implementation plan is to provide key stakeholders with sufficient information to make a ‘Go’, ‘No Go’ decision allowing the initiative to proceed into implementation. Up to this point the initiative has been largely theoretical. If