If you hire, manage or lead people, you’ve likely heard the buzz. There is an increasingly common desire in business for self-organizing teams. From Amazon’s two pizza teams to Spotify’s squads, the value of small, self-organizing teams has been well documented: Rapid innovation in complex organizations Full ownership, accountability, and visibility from conception to delivery Those closest to the work best… Read more »
Building a Better Project Team
You know the feeling. Your project is teetering on the edge of disaster. A run of setbacks has the team struggling, and you’ve just found out that the equipment you need for the next phase will be six weeks late. What happens now? All too often, the result is a mess of disillusionment, finger pointing, and delays. But some teams pull together, find creative solutions, and… Read more »
A Summary of 2019 Employee Offsite
On a late February Friday, our team of consultants took time to connect as a firm in beautiful Pacific City, Oregon. We entered the day with 3 priorities: Align where we are and where we are going as a firm Connect and collaborate Harness our collective experience to focus on future opportunities We started the… Read more »
5 Growth Strategies for Young Consultants
For a young business consultant playing in a field with colleagues and clients who surpass you in age and experience, adding value is one of the biggest challenges. Some 600,000 people in the United States currently work as consultants, but with millennials – the largest generation in the U.S. workforce – just beginning their careers,… Read more »
“What’s the single-most important thing to you today?”: An Agile Approach to Developing New Lifeblood Software with Stakeholders at Heart
On May 22, 2017, OIA Global’s new software system, OptiLink, went live to manage one-third of its operations. OptiLink will serve as the operational backbone to nearly every functional group at OIA, offering its customers greater value, and expanding operational capabilities and efficiencies company-wide. OptiLink replaces what had grown to be five separate software systems… Read more »
Top Five Apps to Amp up Personal Productivity and Reduce Stress
In today’s world, we are constantly being asked to do more than seems possible given the hours in a day – especially if we want to live lives filled with joy and purpose. Remember the good old days when the work day came to an end at 5 PM, and the only work taking place… Read more »
Welcome to the Percipio Blog!
We’ve spent the last 15 years working together with our clients to make them better. We’ve kept our heads down, converting challenge into opportunity, and delivering impact and value for the region’s greatest organizations. And through it all we’ve stayed relatively quiet. But after 15 years of individual and collective growth, we recognize that we… Read more »
