Our Principles
In everything we do, we follow our core values - we are Prepared and Organised in order to create a FEAST for our teams, clients and families:
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Fair
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Enabling
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Adaptable
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Supportive
- Think different, Do different,
We enable success, efficiency and resilience
We provide Fractional and Interim Integrators for the modern online world to visionary leaders of organisations with 3 - 30 staff.
In practice, that means we operate as a part-time or interim "Managing Director", or "Integrator" if your team runs on EOS, supporting visionary owners and leaders in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. To understand more about the terms "Visionary" and "Integrator" to clarify the leadership of a business, we encourage you to read Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman and Marc C Winters.
We are IS Online Ltd - currently Dave Abraham (Dashboard Dave) and Jen Miles.
Based upon Dashboard Dave's principles, and experience from over 30 years of running teams, we create a "Smooth running engine" with visibility and control. We enable the visionary owner to focus on the things they do and enjoy best, with the right team of people and technology providing the power to deliver more value to customers, and create more value for themselves, their team, and their family, than the visionary could achieve alone.
We enable visionaries to look out the front windscreen at the future and choose where to head and how to get there. We adapt our leadership, management, and support to suit each client - integrating through the leadership team of marketing and sales, operations, and finance. We enable the right people, in the right seats, with the right systems, processes, and data, visible to all. At a minimum we chair a weekly leadership meeting, facilitated by the right systems and dashboard, to enable visionaries and each team, to manage the controls as much or as little as they wish to get traction towards a shared vision.
Key ingredients
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Vision - a clear picture in mind of what a great future looks and feels like.
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People and systems - the right people in the right seats, with technology seamlessly integrated where appropriate
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Data - measures of where are we now, and future success, visible on a dashboard and scorecard.
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Processes - Clarity of the most important processes that people and systems follow to create value for customers
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Issues and opportunities - Clear on what we need to discuss, the priorities, and healthy conflict to discuss and solve them providing power towards the future
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Getting traction - Getting things done today, this week, and very week towards the most important priorities of the next 3 months.
At any point, the visionary (or visionaries - if there are multiple shareholders) have clarity of what's working well, what the priorities are, to decide whether to look into details and deal with the most important issue with the accountable people, or to stay in the helicopter and keep pressing on.
From Good, to Great
We work with companies and leaders that are already good at what they do, and they want to become great. Great doesn't necessarily mean becoming big. We love small and focused to a customer niche as much as large and efficient. Jim Collins inspirational book Good to Great was based upon research of large companies from the 1970s to the 1990s - but the same principles apply to small businesses today. Whether your vision is for your engine of success to feel like pedal power, a smooth and powerful petrol engine, an efficient electric motor, a reliable and powerful aero engine, or a rocket engine to take you to the moon and the stars beyond ....
Does this sound interesting?
If you have a vision,
If no-one else has been able to help you get traction,
And if you can find them,
Maybe you can hire .....
Dashboard Dave's Team.
