Archive for the ‘About D3D’ Category
About D3D | | September 22nd, 2009
Effective immediately, Decision 3D is suspending operations. Technically, Decision3D, LLC will continue to exist as a legal entity, but I will not be actively developing new business.
What this means is that I am now in the market for a “regular” job.
My target positions are:
- Consultant with a larger firm.
- Collaboration expert with software tool vendor (E 2.0, HR Systems, etc.) doing
- product development
- sales support
- professional services
- Collaboration practitioner within a company looking to improve their internal processes.
I am looking for opportunities that do not require relocation, so that means I am looking for companies with offices in the Raleigh/Durham area; or companies that will allow me to work virtually from my home office. I am willing to travel up to 50%. I am looking for opportunities that are either full-time (W-2) or long-term contract (1099, at least 6 month term).
My resume is here:
http://bit.ly/leewhite
Please pass this information along to anyone that you think might be interested in talking with me.
If you are not quite sure what I do, maybe this presentation will help.
Tags: consulting, job search
About D3D | | September 16th, 2009
I am happy to announce that on October 23rd I will be presenting at the Social Media Business Forum in Durham, NC. I will be co-presenting with Ryan Boyles, from IBM. Our topic is “Inside The Firewall: Lessons For Internal Communicators”. If you are going to be in the area, I think you will find this to be a great event. Hope to see you there.
About D3D | | June 03rd, 2009
Recruitment
Employee Engagement
Workforce Management
Innovation
Risk management
Education
Each of these are issues every organization faces.
Decision 3D helps clients address these issues by extending the existing communication capability, of the organization, with social technology. The effective depolyment and integration of social technology enables employees to make better decisions and be more productive.
Tags: education, engagement, innovation, recruitment, REWIRE, risk management, workforce management
About D3D | | March 16th, 2009
What are the decisions keeping your people awake at night?
The root causes of this anxiety is usually the lack of appropriate information. Unfortunately, no one ever seems to have all the information they need when it comes time to decide.
The irony is that your own tools, processes and behaviors may be limiting the information flow you need to make better decisions.
Decision 3D provides a proprietary process, called Decision Due Diligence, that will improve the information flow in your organization. Decision Due Diligence addresses both the mechanics (tools and processes) and the behaviors that affect information flow.
Our logic is simple:
- Better decisions lead to better results.
- Improving your information flow will lead to better decisions.
- Decision 3D can improve your information flow.
Check out the resources on this site and contact us to discuss your specific situation. We provide a range of services that can meet your budget requirements.
Mission
To improve decision making with better information flow.
Premise
Effective decisions are the product of having:
- the best possible information
- at the optimal decision point
- at the right time.
Approach
Decision 3D aligns the use of information tools with organizational behavior to improve information flow.
Process
Decision 3D provides an environmental assessment, builds a custom collaboration environment, engages stakeholders, and facilitates an internal design team to deliver a solution that will optimize your information flow.
Tags: decision due diligence, decision making
About D3D | | February 24th, 2009
Decision Due Diligence is the core process of Decision 3D. I have described it at a high level on this website and in my Slideshare presentation. In this post I want to begin a deeper dive into what it looks like in practice. This post will be an overview of the process and subsequent posts will provide more detail of the separate process phases.
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Objective
The purpose of Decision Due Diligence is to allow an organization to gain a better understanding of the factors that are inhibiting information flow and to develop steps to minimize those factors. The hope is that with freer information flow within an organization, decision makers will be more effective at gathering the information they need and therefore be able to make better decisions.
What It Is
Decision Due Diligence (DDD) is not a platform for performance or some kind of general tool that everyone benchmarks against. It is a focused point solution. You use DDD to address a specific operating problem, at a specific point in time, looking for specific, quantifiable improvements in your operations. Once the process is complete, you hope to have three persistent outcomes.
- Improved results
- A new understanding, by participants in the process, of how information flow can be optimized, hopefully leading to fewer information flow restrictions in the future
- The ability to repeat the process elsewhere in the organization to address other operating problems
How It Works
Decision Due Diligence is a multi-stage process. The stages are:
- Assessment
- Analysis
- Model Development
- Idealized Design
- Planning
- Implementation
Assessment
- define the problem,
- identify desired outcomes,
- create initial list of stakeholders
Stakeholders in this case means any entity that influences or is influenced by the decisions core to the situation.
Analysis
- gather stakeholder input about connections
- extend stakeholder list as necessary
- compile stakeholder input about connections
- assign initial values to connections, “Priority”, “Alignment”, “Synchronization”
Connections are the links or relationships between any given pair of stakeholders.
Model Development
- create collaborative workspace showing aggregated Analysis
- invite commentary and feedback from stakeholders regarding aggregated Analysis
- identify key connections (between stakeholders)
Idealized Design
- organize focal event, preferably live, face-to-face and facilitated
- design ideal scenario
- compare to analysis/model results
- identify pragmatic steps to get from “here to there”
- form implementation team
Planning
- convene implementation team
- establish governance, including stakeholder access and feedback to proceedings
- develop project plan for implementation
- define success metrics
Implementation
- implement plan
- monitor and report metrics
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OK there it is. Maybe a bit wonkish, but I want to have this all spelled out so it can be referenced as necessary. I will be adding posts shortly, providing more detail about how each of the six phases will look in practice.
Tags: decision due diligence