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Common Approach - Uncommon Results: How Adoption Delivers the Results You Deserve [Paperback]

Ian Gotts (Author), Richard Parker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Ideas-Warehouse (1 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954830903
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954830908
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank:: 271,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The book addresses the question that all business managers have been struggling with over the past years

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4.0 out of 5 stars Getting people behind change, 29 Jun 2005
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This review is from: Common Approach - Uncommon Results: How Adoption Delivers the Results You Deserve (Paperback)
This book is about execution and how an organization effectively can document processes. I found the book difficult to read, and the message only became clear after I installed the CES software and used it in a project. However, it was then I realized the real message in the book and the powerful tool that Ian Gott's company has developed.

The concept of the book is about how you need to involve people if you want to achieve organizational change. Unless you involve the people all initiatives from the top will at best be half hearted at worst futile. This insight has lead Ian Gott to develop a tool to enable this participation; the tool is interactive, easy to use, makes complex process intuitive and can document relevant information.

A larger company that is serious about operational efficiency, quality improvements or compliance and need to document the processes, will find the lessons in this book invaluable.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Corporate Performance: HOW to improve, 11 April 2005
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This review is from: Common Approach - Uncommon Results: How Adoption Delivers the Results You Deserve (Paperback)
It's intriguing, this book could be part of the solution to really get productivity improvements in some white collar environments where just about everything has been tried before.

The book gives a practical and experience based view on HOW to get people to work together in concert really. Get people to describe how they do things at the company for everyone at the company to see. That is something I have missed in many corporate performance books as they usually only talk about how to measure things, and just sort of seem to assume that that in and of itself will make things better.

This is a bold book. It seems to make things easy, leaves one wondering a little whether things can really be this easy. But then the points it makes do make sense and ring a bell. Also, the writer provides some first hand experience coupled with results.

One point in the book I am not so sure about is the assertion by the writer that everyone has a strategy. In my own corporate experience, I've worked in very successful places where quite frankly a strategy could not really be found. Having said that, it doesn't stop anybody from using this method.

The book took me an hour or two to read, but then I have found myself revisiting it a number of times over the last few weeks. Quite unusual.

In summary I felt this book is on to something in terms of seriously improving corporate performance. This writer has a point. I hadn't heard from Ideas-Warehouse before, but if they keep coming up with books like these I certainly will be interested in the next one. 5 stars for this one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Behind the process models, some real insight., 22 May 2008
By S. Haigh "Tremendous ;-)" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Common Approach - Uncommon Results: How Adoption Delivers the Results You Deserve (Paperback)
Ian Gotts was,I understand,one of Accenture's (or was it AC then?) youngest partners. He left that great company to float his own boat. The book is in some senses two in one. The process maps and case studies are something of an advertorial for the pretty good software that Ian's company has developed.

The real gem though is Ian's thesis that "Results equal Initiatives times Adoption squared". Ian backs it up with compelling stories from his years in the business. It is an amazing theory, and one of which I am reminded of almost every working day. There are too many implications to cover here. If you are in the business of technology, may I suggest that you order a copy, read it, and start reaping the benefits.

Uncommonly good.
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