NEIL WALKER

Tag: CIRCA-CLEAR

  • The Case Study That Didn’t Make the Book

    Why Bayer’s DSO transformation deserves its own series BOTTOM LINE When writing Thriving in Turbulence, I had to make difficult cuts. Some material was redundant. Some was tangential. But some was too current, too unfolding, too significant to compress into…

  • The Bungy Jump: Why Agile Transformations Fail

    Pattern Recognition Across Contexts Thirty years troubleshooting transformations teaches you something valuable: the best explanations come from outside the problem domain. When banking executives struggle with trust deficits, I don’t reference other banks. I talk about bungy jumping. When government…

  • When “Be Resilient” Isn’t Enough: Three Cases That Expose the BANI Gap

    In preparing for the Agile Business Consortium‘s recent Professional Masterclass, I found myself pondering the key case study. Months prior, I’d committed to a bold session title: ‘Decode the Chaos: A Masterclass in Leading with the CIRCA–CLEAR Framework.’ The workshop…

  • Beyond Process Optimization

    How CIRCA-CLEAR Transforms Lean Six Sigma Into Human-Centered Excellence What if the most powerful improvement methodology in the world has been operating with one hand tied behind its back? For decades, Lean Six Sigma has dominated the organizational improvement landscape,…

  • From Weather Report to Navigation System

    VUCA is dead. Long live BANI. Kevin Kruse’s recent Forbes piece declares the shift complete. Jamais Cascio’s BANI framework – Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible – better captures the fractured reality leaders face. Kruse is right. VUCA assumed volatility had rhythm.…

  • The Meeting-to-Meeting Pattern

    Work moves only between recurring sessions. Actions picked up right before the meeting, clarified during it, stalled until the next slot. Calendar inertia, not flow. Why this matters: Classic Lean waste: delays, over-processing, rework, bloated WIP. Decisions depend on people…

  • BANI Is Right. It’s Also Not Enough.

    Kevin Kruse’s recent Forbes piece declares VUCA dead. BANI is the new lens. He’s not wrong. Kruse articulates it sharply: VUCA assumed volatility had rhythm, uncertainty could be waited out, and complexity followed patterns. Those assumptions no longer hold. Today’s…