Dear Reader,The Vanguard Method has to be the best kept secret in business and government. Right?
In the United States, you are probably correct. The industrialized mindset for service and manufacturing still prevails in the States. US manufacturing has been outsourced and marginalized in favor of finance and banking - where has that led the US? A major recession and a weak economy.
Like so many, I began my career with ties to manufacturing by selling industrial supplies. I watched has manufacturing disappeared from the State of Indiana. Service industry became the new future and Indiana became part of the Rust Belt.
Service has fared no better in the US. IT has grown, but IT projects have become the road to nowhere. Automation and modernization bring greater costs when organizations don't first deal with the design and management of work. These are the great opportunities for improvement.
Our clients recognize this and now we have a line of interested organizations that have seen the evidence and are saying I want some of that.
A recent client that had visited a long time client described us as "brilliant and crap." "Brilliant" for the increase in profit and "crap" because we challenge management . . . and management doesn't like to be challenged, especially in the big ego United States. You better have the Method to back up that swagger Mr./Ms. CEO. In the US, all hat . . . no cattle.
The US government be it local, state or federal still believes that passing laws will make things better. Elected officials with "mandates" to change the system do nothing more than tamper and make things worse. The truth lies in knowledge of the work to deliver services, that means that those that deliver the services are in the best position to fix it are government workers.
Government can be fixed with the Vanguard Method in dramatic fashion. For the latest in government, go to
www.thesystemsthinkingreview.com.
Will the US be the last to get it?
