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 … Continue reading When to build a Goal Tree? My use cases tell you.
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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 … Continue reading Goal Tree: should the Goal be time-bound?
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 … Continue reading A Goal Tree built and scrutinized in less than 10 hours
Strategy Deployment: how to keep on track and on schedule?
One major risk in Strategy or Policy Deployment is drifting away from the main objectives and/or getting behind schedule. Any delaying during rollout may simply mean giving away a free gift to competition. Distraction on the way can add to the delay and costs, without adding value for customers nor profit for the company. Have … Continue reading Strategy Deployment: how to keep on track and on schedule?
Is Your Industry 4.0 transformation delayed by COVID-19?
February 2021, in these uncertain times with biohazard lingering and more possible forced lockdowns ahead, your Industry 40 transformation project may well be delayed. Yet this can be turned into an advantage by grasping the opportunity to better prepare the steps to ensure the success of the transformation journey to come. Besides, chances are that … Continue reading Is Your Industry 4.0 transformation delayed by COVID-19?
Overcome 5 common challenges in executing your strategic plan
Strategy deployment and execution is vital and compelling but challenging as well. The internet is full of advice and approaches to overcome the obstacles, but usually those are quite complexe, adding even more challenges. The barely known Goal Tree elegantly solves many issues and provides simple help to overcome the difficulties, in one single logical … Continue reading Overcome 5 common challenges in executing your strategic plan
5 good reasons to build a Goal Tree when considering changing your job
Your current job sucks or you're stuck in your career? Before rushing to the next best job you may benefit from a rational analysis of your ambition and your current situation building a Goal Tree. Here are 5 good reasons to build a Goal Tree when considering changing your job: Get clarity about what you … Continue reading 5 good reasons to build a Goal Tree when considering changing your job
Goal Tree Chronicles – From Goal Tree to project WBS. Yes but.
I use to say that one of the benefits of the Goal Tree is to provide a project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to roll out the project, or the Goal Tree to be used ahead of a new project planning to ensure that no step was forgotten. With experience accumulating, I can confirm this to … Continue reading Goal Tree Chronicles – From Goal Tree to project WBS. Yes but.
The fallacy of maturity assessments
Maturity assessments are a kind of qualitative audit during which the current “maturity” of an organization is compared to a maturity reference model and ranked accordingly to its score. As explained in the wikipedia article about maturity model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_model), the implementation is either top-down or bottom-up, but from my experience it is mostly top-down. The … Continue reading The fallacy of maturity assessments
Chris HOHMANN 