Services
Modus Cooperandi works with organizations to:
- Improve operational efficiency
- Reduce costs
- Increase productivity
- Improve communication
- Build and support highly-functioning teams
Our guiding principles reflect a philosophy incorporating Lean, Agile and Social Media disciplines.
Lean Principles
provide information to people when they need it using the tracking of current work and attention to waste elimination as a vehicle. Lean practices communicate value by letting all members of an organization know the status of a task or project at any given time. Lean’s value stream mapping helps identify what tasks are done when and where handoffs happen.
Agile Principles
provide information to and between team members. Agile creates systems where value and responsibility at a team level is very clear at all times.
Social Media Principles
respond to the need for better communication within an organizational system, whether subscribed to Lean, Agile, Scrum, or a tailored approach to managing the work of the business. With social media, the infrastructure of communication, the relationships between people, the definition of value, and rewards for good collaboration are defined and tracked. Social media augments Agile and Lean by creating a social and communicative foundation. Upon this, robust networks of transparency and success can be built.
I wanted to thank you both for a really great set of sessions. I wasn’t kidding when I said that was the best consulting engagement I have experienced. You got a large number of people throughout the organization either energized or re-energized about how they go about their work. You tee’d up both our support and development teams to really take control of their own work and possibly find that life can be a whole lot easier (while making our clients happier in the process). You answered lots of little questions, validated the general direction and provided some grounding in the ‘whys’ for people who are still mostly focused on ‘what.’ Just what I was looking for.I can’t imagine a better starting position. Thank you so much! — Simon Marcus, CTO of The Library Corporation
Consulting / Training / Team Launches
We have worked with clients of all sizes to discover paths to effective teams. A consulting engagement is typically one week and involves initial training, value stream mapping, examination of existing culture, existing impediments to success, and methods of continuous improvement. We help teams identify and solve problems over time and on their own. We focus on rapid, high-value engagements with clear objectives. A Modus Cooperandi engagement ends with a detailed after-action report that covers issues discovered and actionable plans for all groups involved.
We offer direct training for corporate clients. Teams learn to communicate better internally and with the rest of the organization using the visualization and clarity facilitated by Lean and Agile principles and better communication. Training includes the techniques of Personal Kanban, the integration of personal kanban for individuals and teams into work flows, value stream mapping, the metrics of kanban and the use of retrospectives to create cultures of continuous improvement.
Training should never occur out of context, so most training includes an examination of actual team work flows, management styles, communications channels, policies, and practices that impact productivity and value creation. During the course of the training, we help teams discover better ways of managing and communicating that will survive beyond the training session. Our training is never a talking head, it is highly relevant and participatory.
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