How things get done right!!

By Frank Mangini on October 12th, 2006

Projects are how things get done right. Project using best practices are how things get done better, faster and cheaper. As the 21st century unfolds, businesses are discovering that sustainable competitive advantage can best be achieved by using project management as a strategic process to achieve their critical success factors.

The current and future business reality is insistence on increasingly complex products, reduced time-to-market, higher quality, lower costs and higher ROI. Project management is no longer a “nice to have” capability for developing and delivering innovation, but an integrated component of the strategic management infrastructure critical for organizational survival and sustainability.

Organizations which can synergistically empower well trained project managers using best practices in leading high ROI projects will outpace their market segments in consistently delivering innovation and value to their stakeholders. The near future should find the position of Chief Programs Officer assuming a recognized position of importance within the corporate executive ranks along side other CxOs.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • email
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Yahoo! Buzz

Categories: Implementing project management
Tags:

About the Author

Frank Mangini

FRANK M. MANGINI, PMP, M.S.E.E., M.B.A. in high-technology management, certificates in project and program management and e-commerce business and technology. Frank has more than 25 years of experience in military electronic system design and development, engineering management and program management. He has directed a wide variety of design and development projects, from logistical support activities to $100-million electronic system development portfolios, and has served as the international electronic defense programs director for ARGOSystems, Inc. and the Boeing Company. Frank is currently an instructor at UC Santa Cruz - Extension in Silicon Valley; teaching both classroom and on-line courses in project and program management. Frank is a life time member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a former director of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Microsoft Project Users Group and an active member and past president of TGIF Management Toastmasters in Sunnyvale CA. Frank lives in Cupertino, CA with his wife Sharon and their very spoiled feline fur-child, Dottie. Frank can be reached at frank.mangini@ieee.org.
Creative Commons License
Note: This work and all associated comments are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

Leave a Reply

« »