Total Matrix Management
(formerly The Raw Speed...)

The first step in creating any substantive improvement is to recognize the need for improvement. 

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the root-cause of chronically late projects.
• Understand the mechanism that provides speed.
• Discover why hiring more people is the wrong answer.
• Understand what's required to create speed that lasts.

Audience

This workshop will be invaluable to the executives and managers of those companies whose projects share resources frequently.  These include:

• Product-development companies
• IT organizations
• Financial institutions
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Engineering-services companies
• Job-shops

Description:

This workshop consists of two physical simulations. There is no computing involved. The participants become the simulation. In the morning participants perform six projects, modeling the rules, the decisions, and the behaviors observed in their current organizations. In the afternoon participants perform the same six projects, modeling the rules, the decisions, and the behaviors expected within a Total-Matrix company. The increase in performance is so astounding that almost no one believes it, except for the participants, who experience it.

The workshop ends with a discussion of what it takes, to transform a conventional company into a Total-Matrix company.

Instructor: Tony Rizzo

• BE 1981, ME 1983, in Mechanical Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City.
• Bell Laboratories (AT&T), 1983 to 1995.
• Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies), 1995 to 2000.
• Owner: The Product Development Institute, Inc.
• Partner: Spherical Angle, Inc.

In 1996 Tony Rizzo began studying the operational difficulties of organizations that shared resources among their projects. Total Matrix, which is a synthesis of the conservation principles of physics, the methods of engineering, and the mission of business, is Tony's response to the many operational difficulties of these organizations.