The importance of being “people centric” in all things is a learning that has grown with me as my career evolved from Industrial Engineer to SC/Business Consultant constantly dealing with change. You can have the best idea or plan but are unable to get that shared vision buy in from and with others. Respect for each individual and asking questions about what they think and then testing your understanding of what they said to you is critical. Being on the same page at the same time and having that “shared vision” is critical in the improvement of relationship,organizational and functional stove pipes to enable true collaboration to occur.
I was at Apple in the late 80’s when things were going well and PC margins were at 55% and was fortunate to experience “The Beer Game” workshop lead by Dr. Peter Senge (MIT) of Learning Organization and the 5th Discipline fame. Peter taught us so much about how to best deal with people and understand and utilize “Learn Org” thinking and methods to better understand and manage change. I really grasped onto this continual learning focus and I am a big fan and suggest if you have not “read the book” then do so or better still participate in LO sessions plus buy the book.
I also suggest participating in the Beer Game. Make it happen as the game is one of the best examples of what end-to-end collaboration to achieve business success is all about. Particularly profound when dealing with e2e Supply Chain management change

Quick Reclipse Update – What is so difficult about communicating whats happening in Reclipse when you are deeply focused and working on the client challenges is that we cannot really talk about those activities. Confidentially is a critical key to successfully helping our clients go to new next levels and those plans and changes are what we are working on that become the “Whats Next”. We thrive on working to help move business entities to a new and needed next levels.
Strong current themes are: true collaboration and partnering; outsourcing next’s; innovating; speed; value; communication; ROI’s and breakthroughs.
Rewarding but challenging change management work and very people, subject matter expertise and relationship based consulting/resulting to deliver measurable soft and hard metrics objectives.
A proactive focus and onward into 2011 and building on and around progress made in 2010.

OK the Holidays and 2009 and decade reflections are done.
The Reclipse compass and talent is pointed in the help business while helping people make the complex simple directions and so far so good.
Reclipse will build on the foundations that we have secured in 2009 and help evangelize and support companies in building and transforming their businesses in the most profound and value oriented manner possible.
The social networking and community marketing focus is a blur of connection and real efficient navigation is needed so the “Fad Focus” moves to a more focused real value/ROI benefit instead of creating blurry “Blink” dots that are short lived and no-one can connect. I am not a twitter fan at this stage of its evolution as you might gather from my comments.
All being well it will be a year to continue the healing from the Economic Flu of the past few years. It will be a year and time of entities figuring out how to truly collaborate/partner to succeed and our umbrella lite methodology of Business Chain Management and Improvement will become a high value add for our clients and partners. We practice the Customer Driven – BC Sell, Recruit, Do methods and this year we will unveil more on these capabilities. Onward – Nigel