Gabriel Morgan

    Chess Grandmasters  master the application of concepts and apply them to situations. I study chess and learn move sequences for Openings, Middle Game, Endings, etc and witness many people get caught up in debates around move sequences. There seem to be endless debates which opening is the best defense for specific offense openings….

As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America’s Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies last week, and Microsoft was awarded the #1 spot. Pretty cool. Also interesting was this statement “This survey highlights the fact that when a company embarks on an inspiring mission, it’s employees become inspired by their work and that makes…

My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to find patterns and model relationships. My operations experience forces to me to continuously look for ways to institutionalize efficiencies. My business management experience reminds me that it’s all about organizing people and initiatives to achieve strategy through building environments for people to…

I’ve written several job descriptions for Business Architect, Business Performance Manager, Business Strategy Manager, Business Planner, etc for the groups I’ve worked in and noticed that I tend to write the same things over and over again so I built a template to help me in the future. I’ve shared this with a few folks…

I’ve spent a few years designing and facilitating strategy and planning processes (aka business performance management or BPM) and have gained some insight that I thought might be interesting to folks. This article is a work-in-progress set of best practices I feel are worth sharing. Top Business Performance Management Lessons Learned 1. Be clear on…

Welcome to financial year 2014! Whew! July marks the new financial year and for some of us, the end of a strategy, planning and budgeting cycle. Once again, I had the opportunity to design and facilitate my organization’s business strategy, planning and budgeting process and it seems that each time I learn tons. As a…