Enough of cost cutting by restructuring? The need for Creative Thinking - Continuous Improvement in business.

The need for innovation, change and cutting out waste is a key theme of our  training at present. Managers are being trained in coaching skills, managing their staff through change, and awareness about empowerment, whilst staff are being asked to be more effective and efficient whilst at the same time developing sales and business development opportunities, taking responsibility for networking and selling the business, and coming up with new and creative ways of doing more.

On the face of it, it is pretty clear what is fuelling this drive towards doing more, differently, with less.

However, it is definitely a positive sign of the way in which both the public and the private sectors intend to challenge the hard times.

Intrapreneurial thinking is being encouraged across the same sectors where two years ago it appeared the belt tightening included the new and innovative, and the only real change going through organisations was the restructuring. This of course should still be happening as businesses need to recognise the worst performing departments and staff, and firmly and fairly deal with them.

However, alongside, or separate from restructuring there is the need for the new, innovation, creativity, drive, responsibility, ownership and intrapreneurial thinking that will take today's businesses into the future.