Setting objectives a management team can actually execute
Why strategic plans stall between approval and action, and how to write objectives that survive contact with the operating calendar.
Insights & resources
Perspectives for people running the business
Practical commentary on strategy, operations, organizational performance, and the decisions management teams face as a company grows.
Topics
What we write about
Crestwave publishes on the areas where we do the work. Each topic below will collect articles as they are released.
Business Strategy
Setting direction, evaluating options, and planning execution.
Operational Excellence
Efficiency, capacity, and the cost of how work gets done.
Organizational Growth
Building structure that supports the next stage.
Leadership & Management
Decision rights, accountability, and management routines.
Business Transformation
Planning and sequencing significant change.
Process Improvement
Designing procedures that scale and can be measured.
Technology & Business
Defining the requirement before selecting the solution.
Performance Management
Indicators, reporting, and measuring progress.
Articles
In preparation
The first pieces are being written now. Each will be published here and listed under its topic.
Finding the friction in a process before you automate it
Automating a broken process makes it faster, not better. A short method for sequencing improvement ahead of technology spend.
Choosing indicators that change behaviour
Most reporting packs measure activity. A smaller set of well-chosen indicators tends to change what people actually do.
When structure stops fitting the size of the business
The signals that an operating structure has been outgrown, and what to change first when it has.
Sequencing change so operations keep running
How to phase a significant transition without stalling the work the business depends on today.
Who decides: making decision rights explicit
Ambiguous ownership is a common cause of slow decisions. A practical way to map and document decision authority.
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