When to build a Goal Tree? My use cases tell you.

As I write these lines, in 2024, it will be nearly ten years that I am a fan, a promoter, and a Goal Tree Builder. With 25 Trees already proudly populating my forest, I’d like to share some use cases that may inspire you to consider building one of your own. Strategic road map When …

Goal Tree Chronicles- 2 Trees built in one 2-day workshop

November 2022, I moderated a Goal Tree building workshop in which 2 teams of 5 built a Goal Tree, in the same session and same meeting room. After a couple of hours spent training about the basics of “Necessity logic”, the rules of building a Goal Tree and the different uses of such a Tree, …

November 2022

This month of November 2022 sees the first anniversary of the relocation of my place of residence, which is also the strong symbol of my family's desired change in life. So far, one year after, a very satisfying change from all points of view. I took the opportunity, before initiating this change, to test some …

Get rid of horizontal alignment in strategy execution

While flipping through a vintage (2015-2016) Harvard Business Review (printed) magazine, I was struck by the article “Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It” by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull. It seems that the problems described 10 years ago are still around us, namely horizontal alignment (coordination) in strategy execution. The …

5 good reasons for leaders or senior managers to build a Goal Tree for Strategy Deployment

In this video I am sharing the 5 good reasons for leaders or senior managers to build a Goal Tree for Strategy Deployment. You can find these 5 reasons as a blog post, along with many other articles related to strategy deployment and Goal Trees, on my this blog : Leaders, here are 5 good …

Goal Tree: should the Goal be time-bound?

The Goal Tree, once built and scrutinized, is a benchmark as well as a roadmap. It describes all prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to achieve the Goal, a Goal not yet achieved and (still) lying in (a distant) future. The proposed good practice is to carefully craft and state the Goal, so that …

A Goal Tree built and scrutinized in less than 10 hours

The Goal Tree is a very powerful tool and a favorite of mine, yet very little known. I had the pleasure to moderate the building of two Goal Trees in the very first months of 2022. One in particular was built as the roadmap to achieve the strategic performance objective in manufacturing of a small-sized …

Kaizen: how to ensure all small steps are oriented towards achieving the Goal?

Kaizen, or continuous incremental improvement, refers to a way of thinking and reflecting about the way things are done, the way we execute tasks, or how a product or service could be designed / delivered better, and so on. True Kaizen is based on people’s autonomy and ability to analyse, solve problems, think creatively but …

Back to basics, when helping a company to scale-up

In times of digital hype, 4.0 and other digital transformations, when companies keep struggling with the same old unsolved issues with new fashionable tools, it is quite refreshing to help a company with the very basics of industrial good practices, tools and methods. For my first assignment as a freelancer, I am pleased to come …

OKR caveat: The risk of overemphasizing Grow over Run

It may be a side effect of my aging (read “accumulating experience and wisdom”), I am increasingly cautious for anything a little too hype. Objectives and Key Results (OKR) sure are hype, therefore candidate for a closer look and critical thinking scrutiny. OKR are interesting and are credited to have contributed to the success of …