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Ideas are EASY. The tough thing is making something of them

If you are interested in the latest thinking on performance, management, and change - then you've come to the right place.

Ideas-Warehouse is a team of highly experienced professionals who routinely think outside the box, and whose passion is supporting companies build a High Performance business.

Ideas-Warehouse disseminates 'thought-leadership' by writing books and articles, speaking engagements and by providing access to research on Performance Management from around the business world.

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Driving a High Performance business

Business leaders recognise that in today’s volatile business environment, to remain successful driving and managing change is critical. Change requires ongoing adjustment at all levels of the organisation, which is neither easy nor comfortable for people.

How do you achieve successful change? The answer is Adoption. Through adoption, everyone in your company ensures that you obtain visible results from the change initiatives in your organisation.

We put this succinctly: R=IA²

( Results = Initiatives x Adoption²)

Maximising results by successful adoption of the transformational changes driven out of the initiatives. In other words, it does not matter how many initiatives (projects, exercises, and programmes, whatever) you throw at people if no one adopts the results of them. Typical initiatives include Six Sigma, software implementation (SAP, Siebel etc), Cost Reduction, M&A, Sarbanes Oxley and outsourcing programmes.

While this may sound obvious, the corporate landscape is rife with these initiatives in progress, where little or no thought has been put into how to make sure that the rest of the organisation actually adopt and own whatever improvement is advocated. Little surprise then that the adoption rate (and hence the success rate) of initiatives is pitifully low in many companies.

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”

Winston Churchill 1874-1965

Our latest book....

Common Approach, UnCommon Results

by Ian Gotts and Richard Parker

Tackle the biggest barrier to performance – adoption of your improvement initiatives. By everyone in the company. The easy way. Today.

‘Common Approach – Uncommon Results’ reveals a proven approach which is simple and practical, and achieves staggering levels of adoption. It comes from the day-to-day experience working with more than 500 organisations, including Schroders, Lockheed Martin, Orange, Toyota, Accenture BPO, GlaxoSmithKline and Northrop Grumman.

The book shows us how this highly effective approach can be applied in diverse corporate situations, from outsourcing to fast growth, while ensuring regulatory compliance from top to bottom.

Learn how to transform your thinking so that you can set a strategy, get it implemented and adopted, and experience measurable results – no matter what your industry:

Ø ‘We reduced the worldwide SAP implementation for 40 countries from 36 months to just 18 months’

Ø ‘It provides demonstrable corporate governance, improving business performance and pinpointing shortcomings costing more than £18m’

Ø ‘It has played a significant part in winning more than £30 million of new business and reducing costs by £5.7m and projected annual savings of £4.5 million per annum.’

Ø ‘We brought white-collar productivity up to match our envied blue-collar levels’

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