Business Improvements - Project Mechanics, Business Dynamics, Corporate Optics and Office Politics

This article looks at how business dynamics impact the orderly improvement of the business.

Business Dynamics are internal/external pressures to strengthen, grow, streamline, consolidate or simply improve what the organization does and how it does it. The entity affected by changing dynamics might be the entire enterprise; one or more business unit, divisions, departments, sections, etc.

Business Dynamics fluctuate wildly, today's need, opportunity or issue is likely not the same as yesterday's and will probably not be the same as tomorrow's. Whatever the dynamic(s); steps are taken and at some point, the organization will be different. At that point, new mechanics will govern what the organization does and how it does it; the need, opportunity or issue will be addressed... Or will it?

Business Dynamics are not nicely sequential, are not nicely spaced apart and are not arranged into neat boxes or compartments. Yesterday's dynamic(s) gave rise to one or more responses based on what was known then. Today's dynamic(s) give rise to responses today and tomorrow's dynamic(s) will do the same and so on.

Dynamic responses to change what the organization does are linear and insular. This has to be fixed, fix it. Linear, insular viewpoints frame the dynamic response such that what are intuitively obvious questions are muted by ego, power, control, n-i-m-b-y and subservient influences.

Whether today's dynamic response(s) will impede, intrude, interfere or even nullify yesterday's dynamic response(s) is very much left to chance...

...and that is not something stakeholders would wish to hear!

Whether today's dynamic response(s) could be quicker, cheaper, less prone to issues, of higher quality and with greater stakeholder satisfaction by piggy-backing on yesterday's experiences and outcomes is a question almost always left unanswered...

...and that is something that should trouble every stakeholder!

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