By running lean, outcome-driven meetings, Solve ensures decisions happen faster, projects stay on track, and leaders spend less time stuck in discussions and more time driving results. Steal our hard-won strategies for effective meetings.

A SIPOC diagram helps you visualize how a specific business process works - critical preparation for your business transformation.

There are any number of ways a project can become challenged, but one of the simplest ones to fix is when there isn’t a dedicated PM.

Your business transformation doesn't need an army of resources to succeed; it needs resources with the right skill sets, sharing the right information with each other, aligned on the same goal of delivering results (not just launching software). Check out these major challenges we've helped businesses overcome with our lean team of experts.

The biggest temptation for first-time change sponsors is to dive in right away and start doing things to show progress, but this can result in making early statements or choices that have to be walked back later.

Here are 6 ways to get your head in the game before you make your first move.

When looking to reduce costs, there are the usual suspects… and then there are sensible process improvements that reduce operating costs with minimal people impact.

This economic environment is completely unfamiliar and seems to be filled with new challenges. Environments like this can easily push organizations into Survive mode, which looks like hunkering down, cutting costs, and avoiding risk.

But there are opportunities here, too.

As uncertainty continues and operating costs rise across the board, we expect Alberta businesses in the oil & gas space will want to quickly look at reducing their costs, but we don't think this has to mean sweeping cuts; there are other ways.

Solve's three partners, Brandon Bailey-Cummings, Catherine Naylen, MBA, CCMP™, and Carolyn (McDonald) Nichols - MSc, PMP, PROSCI, founded this company after working together at a Big 4 consulting firm.

Learn more about each of our backgrounds, signature skills, and fun facts.

Learn more about our fractional model and how it can help you access specialized support on a flexible basis.

Our values mean something to us, they are at the core of everything we do. Learn more about how our values show up in our business practices and employee experience.

Learn more about our fully customized training workshops and how they can help you get (and keep) results from your process improvement projects.