Feb 222012
 

Sample activities include:

ANALYSIS Reviewing team composition and competences against the task in hand
Applying thinking techniques to hard problems (e.g. critical thinking, systems thinking, hypothesis-driven problem solving

Designing and executing strategic analyses

Designing and building quantitative and financial models

Analyzing and articulating business designs (aspects include business model, process, information, competences, organization, performance management & incentives

COMMUNICATION & DECISION-MAKING Identifying stakeholders and determining their motives and incentives

Facilitating group interactions and teamwork, often using ‘hard’ techniques to achieve ‘soft’ goals

Visualising problems and solutions using physical media such as large wall exhibits and electronic media such as mind maps and drill-down process charts

Creating Board quality presentation and reporting material and using this to drive decision-making

ACTION Employing professional web-based collaboration environments to manage group and project interactions across great distances

Managing with industry standard project management techniques, especially PRINCE2

Applying improvement techniques such as Lean and Six Sigma

Working with selected third parties to provide specialist expertise that complements his own and to handle larger projects