Strategy course and "Logical Thinking Process" by Bill Dettmer

Logical Thinking Process

Online training course designed by world expert Bill Dettmer

Craft an actionable future and bring your organization to a higher level

The Logical Thinking Process, as the name suggests, uses sound logic and a set of tools or processes to provide executives and system managers an effective method for designing organizational strategy, planning its deployment, evaluating its effectiveness, and making corrections as needed in the shortest possible time.

This training course was initially, until 2019, proposed in a 6-Day format in our Paris offices. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a 100% online version of this training course was created. It is available, at the following address:

LTP Online

(Training activity recorder in France under n° 11 75 45692 75)

Course description

The course is offered either as a fully coached option including 6 hours of coaching or a "videos only" option without coaching.

Further information is available here.

The LTP can typically produce a completed strategy within a matter of weeks, including the required deployment tasks and activities. It provides an easy way for executives to monitor progress of strategy deployment. In the problem-solving mode, resolution of complex system problems has been designed in as short as a few days and no more than several weeks (the time required for solution implementation varies with the nature of the situation).

The two most significant challenges leaders and senior managers face are creating and deploying an effective organizational strategy and solving complex system problems.

• Where do we stand today?

• What will be needed for tomorrow?

• What is holding us back from achieving new levels of success?

• What should we do about it?

• How can we change direction?

These are all questions that traditional methods of continuous improvement are ill-equipped to address. Strategy development and complex problem solving represent opposite sides of the same coin.

Consider that problem solving at the strategic system level is no more than identifying the shortfalls in performance against the originally designed strategy, determining the reasons why these gaps exist, and creating ways to close them—thus improving the success of the original strategy.

Two short videos of Bill Dettmer explaining what are the LTP and the benefits you can get from the training course

Client testimony

The Logical Thinking Process (LTP) is an integrated set of logic trees intended specifically to answer four essential questions crucial for both strategy development and problem solving:

1. What is the benchmark of desired system performance?
2. Why is the system not already achieving that benchmark?
3. What should be done differently to achieve the benchmark?
4. How should changes be effected? 

Learning objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Be self sufficient to read, construct and review Goal Trees, Current Reality Trees, Conflict Resolution Diagrams (Evaporating Clouds), Future Reality Trees and Prerequisite Trees

• Surface and identify root causes of complex problems and build robust solutions to solve them

• Assess and mitigate the risks of the proposed solutions

• Apprehend the difficulties about change and settle conflicting objectives

• Identify and overcome possible obstacles

• Build a straightforward plan for change and present an executive summary

Who should attend

• Executives with strategic or tactical leadership responsibilities

• Supply chain and logistic managers

• Internal or external change agents responsible for complex problem-solving

• Project managers faced with a rapidly changing environment

• Managers with responsibility for quality or continuous improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, etc.) within their organizations

• Entrepreneurs

Participants' feedbacks

Trainers

H. WILLIAM DETTMER, Senior Partner, at Goal Systems International. Bill Dettmer has applied the Strategic Navigation and thinking process in both manufacturing and services with Fortune 500 and other companies, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations around the world. Partial client list includes The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (USA), Boeing, Bosch, Bayer, Deloitte&Touche (USA), U.S. Air Force Software Technology Center, Seagate Technology, Lucent Technologies (both in Europe and the USA), Siemens Medical (Germany), Siemens Energy Generation (USA). He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievements award by TOCICO in recognition of his contributions to the Theory Of Constraints Body of Knowledge.

Twenty-three years' experience in logistics, strategic planning, operational planning, training, large-scale systems deployment, and contracting. Direct responsibility for project management, logistics planning, gouvernement contracting, system design, financial management, productivity improvement, idea generation, team building, strategic planning, and customer-supplier relations.

Bill Dettmer's book:  The Logical Thinking Process, An Executive Summary (VirtualBookworm Publishing, 2018); Strategic Navigation (ASQ Quality Press, 2003); The Logical Thinking Process (ASQ Quality Press, 2007); Breaking the Constraints to World-Class Performance (ASQ Quality Press, 1998);  Strategy, Chapter 19 of Theory of Constraints Handbook (McGraw-Hill 2010); Brainpower Networking Using the Crawford Slip Method (Trafford Publishing, 2003). Co-author (with Eli Schragenheim) of Manufacturing at Warp Speed (CRC St. Lucie Press, 2000).

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a Logical Thinking Process expert and entrepreneur of a software consulting company that sells and implements planning and budgeting solutions.

During his 20 years of experience, he has focused primarily on improving the results and business practices of various companies with the help of technology.

Mr. Siglaugsson is a trainer and gives courses on planning and budgeting as well as other approaches.
He is the author of the book From Symptoms to Causes: Applying the Logical Thinking Process to Everyday Problems.

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