The document discusses using simplicity to tame business complexity and achieve desired results. It promotes developing a strategic plan that defines why the business exists, what it wants to accomplish, and how it will achieve its goals. The plan should be based on understanding customer needs and aligning all business processes to produce the intended outcomes.

1. The results you want
Simplicity creates the best, most lasting results
Tame business complexity

2. Tame business complexity

3. Tame business complexity

4. Important?
Urgent?
Relevant?
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5. Focus on principles
Truth  simple

6. Tame business complexity
Make it
simple.
Make it last.

7. Simplicity on the far
side of complexity
Tame business complexity

8. See your business
whole
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9. The Trailhead
A whole system report on
your business
Expectations
Results
Root causes of the results
Customers, employees,
suppliers, investors – anyone
who cares about the results
you get – contrast their view
of your business’s system with
the leaders’ view.
No new insight? No charge!
No kidding
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10. Trailhead Insight Examples
Vendor
Fabricator
Agent
Customer on Agent
Customer on Eng2
Employee
Customer Competitive Assessment of Quality
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
Performance Reliability Maintainability User friendliness
Importance
Satisfaction
Competitor
How Well Are Customers' and Others' Needs Understood?
3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0
Vendor
Fabricator
Agent
Customer on Agent
Customer on Eng2
Employee
Mgt Team
Are Processes Aligned to Produce Desired Results?
3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0
Mgt Team

11. Simple strategic plan
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12. Strategic Plan Develop in 5 days. Fixed price.
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Why are we in business?
What do we want to accomplish?
How are we going to do it?

13. Radical consulting ideas
You know most about your business
We deliver service online
Fixed price
Dirt cheap
Fast
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Our job
Build your company’s internal capability to get
the results you want -- perpetually

14. We can help you
Develop strategic and tactical plans
Gain 360̊ business insight
Simplify processes
Prepare for ISO/Baldridge/Shingo
Learn/teach systems thinking
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Please read
Pathway: A simplified system for getting the
results you want

16. http://blogs.southworks.net/vfugante/

17. Tame business complexity

18. We offer tools to tame
complexity
See your business whole
Create simple, comprehensive plans
Align processes
Develop effective measures

19. Why are we in business?
Customer/stakeholder needs
Purpose
Mission
Vision
Values
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People want to commit to something
important.

20. Why are we in business?
Customer/stakeholder needs
Purpose
Mission
Vision
Values
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People want to commit to something
important.

21. Why are we in business?
This is the essence of what we’re about:
OBJECTIVE
We will become the preeminent source for cinematic quality, clean
short films on the Internet.
MISSION
We will create & distribute the kind of short films that get people’s
hearts to beat. To feel something warm. Hope for something better.
Live for something greater. Everyone feels better with CleanShorts.
VISION
Won’t it be great when people around the world shout out how
they’re sick of degrading films and demand more entertainment like
CleanShorts.
PURPOSE
To spread encouragement.
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22. To become the TRUSTED NAME we must deliver exactly what we
promise. But we must be more than just clean. It’s not enough to
be devoid of offensive material. We must have inherent value. We
must have substance.
ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY
No Profanity
No Nudity
No Sexual Situations
No Suggestive Material
No Glorified Violence
No Matter What
CLEANSHORTS WILL
Celebrate the Human Journey
Build Relationships
Strengthen Families
Celebrate Womanhood
Express Hope
Affirm Life
Promote Morals/Values
Maintain Excellent Cinematic Quality
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23. What do we want to
accomplish?
Unifying strategy
Competitive advantage
Products/services
Strategic objectives
Incentive alignment Commit to purpose enough
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Commit to strategy totally

24. How are we going to do it?
Macro system model
Process design and improvement
Resource requirements
Tactical plans and budgets
Roles and responsibilities
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With direction set by purpose and strategy,
leaders unify the entire value chain.
People become partners in producing the
results you want.

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26. Execution
Once the plan is developed, focus
shifts to implementation.
Measure progress and report it so
that its rate increases.
Correct course regularly using
balanced scorecards and dashboards.
Let feedback flow, stimulating the
continuous cycle.
Every organization is perfectly aligned
to get the results it gets.
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27. At last, who’s going to do
it?
Staff by process
Invest in developing people
Equip leaders
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People commit to purpose and strategy.
People become partners in executing processes

28. There is no textbook manager.
Paei: Producer P_ _ _ : Lone Ranger
pAei: Administrator _ A _ _: Bureaucrat
paEi: Entrepreneur _ _ E _: Arsonist
paeI: Integrator _ _ _ I : Superfollower
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Source: Adizes, How to solve the mismanagement crisis

29. PAEI Organizational Life Cycle
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Source: Adizes, Organizational Life Cycles

30. Leadership/Management Styles
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Source: Adizes, How to solve the mismanagement crisis

31. Your next steps
Share your vision of your business
with your key stakeholders.
Let them share theirs with you.
Get comprehensive feedback with a
Trailhead Report.
Develop the strategic plan.
Embark on the expedition, correcting
course as needed.
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32. Pathway Consulting
Finding your company’s path to desired results through
deep, principled understanding
dbapathway@gmail.com. P. 801 221-7679

33. dbapathway@gmail.com
Pathway Consulting
Finding your company’s path to desired results through
deep, principled understanding
dbapathway@gmail.com. P. 801 221-7679