LEADERSHIP

 

Good leadership takes advantage of people's uniqueness to provide a competitive edge:

 

Optimizing a Plan:

How to optimize your project plan in a day?

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Leadership Style:

Is your leadership style hindering you?

Go to .. Advantage

 

Direction for Leaders:

How to determine leadership quality?

Go to .. Compass

Mission: Metrically put your people's ability to succeed in the center of your organizational success through offering state-of-the-art management methodology and technology solutions.

Catalyst Technologies (CT) develops and distributes forward thinking metrics, within our methodology and technology solutions, that integrate proven leadership principles into project and daily operations of people centric organizations. This is the result of over two decades of field research that refined a leadership methodology engaging individuals to dramatically increase company productivity and lower cost, while increasing their motivation. From this research and to more easily demonstrate the value management received from valuing their workforce, the company developed a very comprehensive software tool named "u2 Leadership Software". The u2 Leadership application is a breakthrough in improving productivity, efficiency and quality through use of Solutions Offering Unique Learning (SOUL) principles. CT sells directly to an organization or through Value Added Reseller (VAR).

The original company was founded in 1987 to support the U.S. government with research and development for space technology. Since that time, our clients have ranged from Department of Defense mission-critical programs, with budgets so large that they're reviewed as separate line items for Congress, to start-up Internet companies competing with infamous "P2P" movie and audio file sharing web dot-com's.

In response to our clients’ business challenges involved with improving customer satisfaction, quality, time-to-market and process costs, we seamlessly incorporated industry best practices within the "u2" leadership paradigm, including Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Process Improvement (following a "Kaizen" style), Dashboard Leadership, Balanced Scorecard, and Predictive Metric analysis.

Secret sauce

The secret sauce within our u2 Leadership Software  is our people focused leadership technology. This technology is based on solid mathematical and engineering principles developed over a 25 year period of time. In 1986, the company founder and principal inventor of the people focused leadership technology, Mr. Bruce Nagy, was directed to recover a congressionally visible program associated with software and hardware throughput performance. Numerous previous solutions and methodologies had failed to make any headway in solving this very serious issue.

Using the same set of people assigned to the program who had failed to identify a solution over the previous 6 months, Mr. Nagy, in one afternoon, was able to map out the plan that would eventually resolve their organizational and technical issues within one year. In one year, throughput performance went from 1000 hours to 120 hours. These results surprised and even shocked people involved. Mr. Nagy had saved the program from harsh Congressional criticism and a severe national security vulnerability. What was considered impossible to do by the program's brightest team of scientists and engineers, could now be done, and it could be done on time and within budget.

Was it an aberration? Mr. Nagy was asked to help recover another failed project sponsored by the government. In this case, Mr. Nagy was provided an inexperienced team, and still they solved the problem and achieved the goals in less time than the most senior people concurrently working on the issue. The senior engineers didn't want anything to do with the inexperienced outsiders because they thought it was a waste of time. Normally, that would have been true. How surprised they were to validate the accuracy of the answers identified by Mr. Nagy's inexperienced team 6 months later.

Why could Mr. Nagy recover these programs using the same employees or at times, inexperienced teams, and still get the results, when there had been so many previously failed attempts? Over time, he realized that his actions had some common elements that could ultimately lead to a business science breakthrough involving leadership.

Business science breakthrough

"The u2 Leadership Software is able to seamlessly integrate Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Process Improvement ("Kaizen" style), Dashboard Leadership and Balanced Scorecard by using a unique Predictive Metric approach focused on increasing intangible assets like group creativity and initiative regarding productivity and cost reduction," is Mr. Nagy's response. "When I’m in the field having to meet a seemingly impossible deadline, I need a tool that can objectively identify bottlenecks in an implementation approach before execution - whether those bottlenecks come from the organizational structure, technology, processes or personalities involved. Additionally, we designed our products to provide accurate information as to next steps regarding productivity and effectiveness, focusing on better matching the implementation team's strengths and needs to the business objectives and implementation approaches used. This is what I needed and maybe other managers will benefit as dramatically as I have from this capability too."

The "u2" is an evolution of two decades of field research in workforce productivity, turning "lemons into lemonade." It's purpose is to provide management with practical leadership tools and techniques to more effectively manage the learning and growth of their workforce to meet business objectives more productively, efficiently and reliably, achieving the quality expected of an exceptional staff