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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

There are two neat tools you can use to quickly turn excel spreadsheets into online simulations, what-if models and dashboards. They are Simulate from Forio and Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly known as xcelsius) from SAP. Here's the lowdown.

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 13, 2012

ISEE Systems , a leading developer of business simulation tools, have published reviews of two of the new Bioteams online/offline collaboration games developed using the ithink platform. The first game is a "company war game" where the HR teams become the senior executive team in their own business.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This resonates for me with Tom DeMarco''s excellent thesis in Peopleware that you can get a better return on productivity improvements by just taking care of the simple stuff! Read the full survey here. Collaboration Research & Science'

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BioTeams

APRIL 5, 2011

I wrote an article on the use of simulation technology in the field of "Sales Performance Optimization" for The Effective Executive Magazine for the May 2011 edition. Download "The Science of Sales Performance Optimization". They have very kindly allowed me to offer a free PDF download of the paper to bioteams.com readers.

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BioTeams

MAY 10, 2013

Community : Who are the key players who are tasked with achieving this result, in other words the team. For each of these groups you need to establish their: • Power (High, Medium or Low) - their leverage over your goal and 3 required outcomes. Context : Why is this project important now? Conclusions*3. In other words, Risks.

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BioTeams

MAY 5, 2011

My argument was that we have all experienced high-performing teams but mostly not at work (sports, music, adventures, holidays, family etc)! In the video The Lost Secrets of High-Performing Teams I remind us of what we may have forgotten about great teams and make a plea to bring these sensibilities back into our work teams.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The first part of this paper explores how people learn and explains why business simulation has become a vital tool for organizations who need their leaders and decision-makers to be "well drilled" in rehearsing the many highly challenging scenarios they could encounter in the business year. Tags: Team Leadership Development.

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BioTeams

MARCH 28, 2011

I spoke at the inaugural TEDx event in Belfast on March 23 on "The 7 secrets of High-Performing Teams". The 7 secrets of High Performing Teams. 6 - Fast Co-invention via good team decision-making. Secret No. To see all the interviews - TEDxBelfast review.

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BioTeams

MAY 31, 2011

I am looking forward to speaking and running a workshop on High Performing Teams at ECCIXII - the 12th European Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Portugal (Faro) from September 14-17.

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BioTeams

APRIL 8, 2011

The manifesto is the foundation of the Bioteams book, published March 2008, and is a comprehensive conceptual framework for the effective management of today's Virtual Teams , Multi-Enterprise Teams and Cross-Functional teams. To review the book Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs.

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BioTeams

MAY 11, 2011

I have been thinking for a long time about developing an online game for High-Performing Teams which was complex enough to be useful but simple enough to be usable! To explore the thinking behind the A4 High-Performing Team Game or to play the demo. The SCG is explained more here.

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BioTeams

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are 7 things which will make your team brainstorm go brilliantly. and 6 things which will absolutely kill it. Find out what they are here. From the The Art of Innovation , by Tom Kelly of IDEO.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Why cant we have an Excel-like tool for business simulation? After developing many bespoke business simulations a thought suddenly entered my head: why can't we have something which is to business simulation what a spreadsheet is to financial modelling ? STEP 2 - Identify the main decisions to be explored in the simulation.

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BioTeams

AUGUST 1, 2011

Read Leadership, Connectivity, Execution, Organization here: Download the bioteams manifesto for free here: About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams (..)

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 19, 2012

One of the best ways to uncover the invisible myths, meta-dilemmas and biases which might be driving teams and individuals in different directions is through simulations and (serious) game playing. Read The Dueling Myths of Business.

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BioTeams

MARCH 30, 2011

I have collaborated with Jeff Peel and his Business Evidence Thought-Leadership blog to produce a new 4-minute video on Natural Teams - how we can use simple ideas from nature, sports teams and families to radically improve our work teams.

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 29, 2012

About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book) Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively (..)

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In this new short audio/video I share 7 secrets on how teams can significantly improve performance by adopting simple techniques from Bioteams. The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams: TEAM ORGANISATION. TEAM OPERATION. Watch the audio/video: The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams.

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BioTeams

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

However many businesses do not fit this model and are working in local markets with non-digital services/products. These days lots of businesses are trying to use social media to enhance their online presence. Unfortunately only a minority are really succeeding. Many of these are businesses that are highly digital or naturally global.

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BioTeams

JUNE 23, 2011

Do our teams work like this or are they more like groups of lone rangers who see asking for help as a sign of weakness and only ask for it as a last resource and after the damage has already been done! This is one more great example of ant teamwork and how they know when to call in help for a task they can't manage alone.

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BioTeams

MARCH 13, 2012

To read Musing on Meetings, Team Form and Function. Seven team decision-making methods. The 3 ways great teams make decisions: video clip. Jamie's best practice list includes un-meetings, the importance of "unfiltered conflict", Alignment, disarming defensive routines, surfacing Mental Models and the 4-Player Dialogue Model.

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BioTeams

AUGUST 20, 2012

About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book) Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively (..)

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 31, 2012

About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book) Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively (..)

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BioTeams

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the most important things in any team, network or partnership is to define the rules of engagement (aka Ground Rules). For more details on Ground Rules and other key techniques watch my 10-minute audiocast The 7 secrets of High-Performing Teams. click here for more details ). click here for more details ).

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BioTeams

APRIL 27, 2011

which suggests that experts (Unconsciously Competent) can suddenly flip under stress to "beginner mode" (Consciously Competent) with the accompanying degradation in their performance. Very interesting article by Matthew Syed , a former Commonwealth table tennis champion. Image: Chelsea miss penalty kick.

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BioTeams

APRIL 6, 2011

One of the challenges for teams is that the achievement of some of their goals are not fully under their own control - they need to be achieved in partnership with, or even in spite of, external parties (stakeholders) who are working to their own agendas and priorities. Click To play The Stakeholder Collaboration Game. Instructions for use.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I was part of a fascinating panel session "Mobility, Teams, The Cloud and Collaboration" at the recent Mobile Cloud Summit (London: 21 September). The summit and the session was chaired by Jeffrey Peel of Quadriga Consulting and my co-panelists were Brian Caulfield of DFJ Esprit and Chris Horn of Movirtu.

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 17, 2012

About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book) Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively (..)

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BioTeams

JANUARY 3, 2011

Process Physics " is the discipline of using mathematical process models in conjunction with simulation technology to spot the "money left on the table" in any business processes. Why have I developed a new discipline called Process Physics ? Same answer - because that's where the money is (in a process). click here for more details ).

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

About Ken Thompson Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas: Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book) Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively (..)

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In today's challenging economic climate understanding the hidden physics of your enterprise's business processes could be the trick which delivers timely and significant performance improvement in your key revenue generation processes. Well when you run it through the simulator in actually makes things a bit worse in this case.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Knowing when to start a meeting when key people keep arriving late Knowing when to launch a new product with a growing pilot customer base Knowing when to try to introduce charging in an online community. This is just one more example of how we can learn from nature's teams ( Bioteams ). To read Bacteria and the power of teamwork.

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BioTeams

AUGUST 24, 2012

There are a plethora of excel add-Ins out there, many of which aim to improve or extend a feature which excel already performs. For example, the percentage we could invest in different sales activities for different products or channels all of which add up to a total annual sales or profits figure. But what is the best combination?

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BioTeams

JANUARY 12, 2011

2 is The Seven Secrets of High Performing Teams (AudioCast). The Seven Secrets of High Performing Teams (AudioCast) I set myself the challenge of explaining the essence of bioteams in less than 10 minutes. 1 is The Social Media Healthcheck Reference Card. Get all 3 here! Download the reference card.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The game is designed to be used in leadership development workshops with up to 20 participants playing competitively in teams.

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BioTeams

JULY 16, 2009

The Discipline of Market Leaders (TDML) by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema (1997) equips the leadership of an enterprise with a choice of 3 strategies for competing in the marketplace - Customer Intimacy, Operational Excellence or Product Leadership. To try out the Discipline of Market Leaders Management Simulation.

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