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		<title>SNAFU! Just another business improvement debacle…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SNAFU! Just another business improvement debacle… 
Many business improvement problems – cost overruns, delays, low quality, stakeholder dissatisfaction, etc, etc. &#8211; can be traced back to the fact that when external parties (vendors, consultants, service providers) are involved; profit centric objectives of these parties take first priority over business objectives.
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		<title>Leadership Vision vs Enterprise Reality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change initiatives; one, several, tens or even hundreds vie for resources, time and attention &#8211; concurrently striving to address defensive, offensive, expansion, growth, contraction and improvement pressures. 
New ideas, new opportunities, new threats fill Pandora&#8217;s Box to the brim&#8230;
Vision vs. Reality is one of the more serious types of problems that emanate from opening Pandora&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=45&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Information / Process Silos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do not need to spend a fortune tearing apart existing systems, processes and data repositories; you just need to explore with us how we could help you bring clarity and cohesion to the convoluted world of unconstrained Information/Process Silos. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=40&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Napoleon&#8217;s Imperial Guard were wont to say:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Some shot will go straight to the target every time; some shot will explode in the barrel while some shot will ricochet in the wrong direction. Some powder will flash in the pan; some powder will flare uncontrollably while some powder will be too powerful in the usual measure. Some fuses burn too fast, others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=39&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting at the Moon&#8230; Again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what type of corporate transformation /business improvement initiative; no matter what size, scale, grandeur, cost, criticality or potential ROI; no matter what the reason or rationale… it is all but certain that whatever you wanted to do to improve the business did not meet expectations.
Along with whatever mediocre results, if any, that were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=38&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Tzu and the Art of Corporate Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for an off beat idea to rally the troops, build morale, create a moment of fun amidst the worries of the daily business? This treatment moves away from corporate transformation worries and concerns to present audiences with an ‘unusual’ subject that is an ideal agenda item for a management retreat, team building initiative or strategic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=37&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sum of Change</title>
		<link>http://tlir.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/the-sum-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SUM OF CHANGE At any moment in time, every organization will be in the midst of change…  Some will face monumental pressures to deliver results, satisfy customers and clients, meet and even exceed stakeholder expectations and more.  Some will be investing heavily in growth / expansion initiatives such as merger, acquisition, new lines of business, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=36&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaic, Linear Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, like yesterday and doubtless tomorrow; change is coming down the pipe. Depending on your rank and role; you may conceive, approve, plan, execute or be the recipient of efforts to strengthen, grow, streamline, consolidate or simply improve what the business does and how it does it.  
Here’s the bad news… The odds are stacked against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=35&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for the Chief Change Officer</title>
		<link>http://tlir.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/the-case-for-the-chief-change-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts to deal with change in organizations almost always cost more than planned, take longer than planned, deliver less than planned and generate lasting resistance to future change.  Why do these attempts, known as change-management initiatives, fail so often? The reasons, excuses, and rationale are countless yet there is an underlying factor that is rarely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tlir.wordpress.com&blog=752128&post=33&subd=tlir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business improvement projects are often battlefields where quislings, mercenaries, factions and cliques seek to dominate friend and foe alike&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tlir.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/contravallation-circumvallation-devastation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image at the top of the page is one of the most unusual battles in the annals of warfare yet the situation, strategies and tactics employed there repeat over and over again in the workplace with the same disastrous results! Conversations to explore the scene and it&#8217;s relevance to your workplace welcomed&#8230;
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