Compromising is a lose/lose proposition, because it often leaves both sides wanting. Another phrase I hear often and somewhat disagree with is: The key to my success is treating people the way I want to be treated.
Read on to see why…..
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You’ve heard the stereotypes: Business analysts thinks IT is a socially awkward group with zero business savvy. IT, meanwhile, scoffs at analysts inability to keep up. So many projects depend on IT-business alignment, and so many fail.
Why do projects fail, who’s to blame, and how to fix them?
Why do projects fail and how to fix them. Read More »
Project managers are on stage and under the spotlight from the moment the project curtain opens until the project curtain
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Linking Project Delivery in the early stages to business value can be challenging at best, due to changing strategic goals of the enterprise. Also, understanding the full life cycle of the delivered service, including the total cost of ownership and the end-to-end life-cycle of the service can be a difficult task to assume and communicate.
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To continue to add value to the enterprise, I believe that the PM role needs to continue to evolve more in the direction of a strategic business manager, linking the project delivery to business value. Excelling not only at delivering a project to the stakeholder, the PM needs to understand how the service delivered, as a result of the project, accelerates a business capability and helps the enterprise leverage current services in-place, as well as the life-cycle of these services, skills that are immensely important to the enterprise success.
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Luckily for me, I learned how to count in early life… probably elementary school. Or sometime… (This used to be
Simple skills, like learning to count… Read More »
When project managing for innovation and change, three important steps are getting great inspiration, having an effective idea generation session, and then moving your ideas forward with prototyping. Consider your personal and organizational prototyping practices: do you prototype across a wide range of levels, from rough to real? Do you prototype both your tangible and intangible concepts, as you might for service design and organizational change? Take a look at the following post to imagine your path this year on what and how to prototype – for yourself or across your company.
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If you’d like to know yourself better “in an innovation way,” take a look! Four innovation types are discussed, including their strengths and tips for growth.
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Ever been in a brainstorm and felt how differently your colleagues respond to new ideas? It turns out there are different “innovation types.” You may want to know what kind of innovator you are, and how you can improve your own work and your understanding of others in an innovation project team.
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Career Lessons 10, 9, 8 – Vacation, Balance and Change As I pointed out in my earlier blog, we will
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Well, here it is Christmas Eve, and it’s the day for cooking up a feast, admiring the tree, and fighting
Christmas: the un-Project Read More »