The RDM method focuses on five key principles:
1. The Power of the Objective
2. The Power of Knowledge (knowing what is important and what isn't through CSF)
3. The Power of Focus (working together toward a common goal)
4. The Power of Creativity
5. The Power of Structure
The Power of the Objective
What does victory look like?
Without a clear understanding of what needs to be accomplished, organizations tend to lose focus, follow too many projects, and are at continued risk of underestimating the achievable, or giving up when they realize their aim might be too high.
The use of the RDM process allows organizations to develop objectives that are feasible, challenging and quantifiable.
Objectives must be feasible, to ensure that the organization's resources are not invested in impossible goals; they must be challenging, to ensure that the same resources are used for worthy improvements; they must be quantifiable, to ensure measurement and accountability.
The Power of Focus
First things first...
Let's face it: there are plenty of things going on every day, within the halls of an organization: financial issues, employees problems, pressing matters. So many fires to put out require seemingly endless hours.
To ensure continued, organic growth, however, organizations must strike a delicate balance between handling immediate projects and managing long-term objectives. Unfortunately, between the two, most organizations fall victims to the "here and now", giving priority to the problems facing them today.
Through RDM, organizations learn how to maintain this delicate balance, allowing them to keep a constant watch on growth and improvement tasks, while successfully tackling those immediate, pressing issues that must be resolved.
Someone once said: if you don't know where you came from, you can't know where you're going.
In order to understand how appropriately plan for growth and improvement, an organization must first understand two key elements:
1. Micro environment, which include the organization's culture, bottlenecks and resources;
2. Macro environment, which includes competition, customers, and other environmental factors (legal, etc.)
Through a process called "Critical Success Factors", the influential elements are understood and become the basis for an efficiency-based approach to problem solving.
The Power of Knowledge
Know Thy Environment
The creative phase of the RDM method allows the organization to approach problem solving at its best.
We know that organization hold the answer to their problems within them. The amount of knowledge, understanding and willingness to improve is often staggering but seldom readily available.
Through methods that are designed to produce the greatest amount of possible solutions and ideas (methods like brainstorming and brainwriting) the organization is able to tap into the wealth of knowledge held by its members, ensuring that no stone is left unturned and no option is left on the table.
The Power of Creativity
The idea factory
The Power of Structure
Building change based on passion
What is creativity without structure? When do we stop producing ideas and start improving?
One of the hardest things for an organization is to select the best solutions among all of the possible ideas produced.
Through an approach based on calculation of efficiencies, RDM allows organizations to have a solid and reliable tool to
1. Tackle the most impacting projects first;
2. Manage each project efficiently and effectively;
3. Create a culture of accountability, where resources investment in change and improvement are associated with measurable results;
4. Strike a balance between short-term needs and long-term gain.
The Five Powers of RDM
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