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9 views into your organization with a project management lens

Portfolio Planning August 30, 2010

Project management offers a way to breath new life into your organization’s competitive and operational advantage, but why is project management seemingly stuck in engineering or scientific theory? Project management may look like an engineering, top-down control process, but project management is less process and more a discipline:  like accounting.  Anyone familiar with accounting knows asset [...]

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2 priorities for competitive advantage

Organization Behavior August 26, 2010

In addition to sales and finance, there are 2 complimentary organization priorities that leaders should focus on to achieve and sustain excellence: understand motivation deliver projects in a routine manner Organizations can stake out a competitive advantage by doing things cheaper or doing things better.  Motivation and project management are 2 ways an organization can [...]

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Organization sabotage and the butterfly effect

Organization Behavior July 23, 2010

An intervention. Interventions are principal learning processes in the “action” stage of organization development (OD)*. An intervention is what people outside organization development [the majority of professionals are distinctly NOT part of or aware of organization development] might call a project, change, or transformation.   The reason a professional might call for an organization intervention, or project, [...]

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Charley Matera, Principal, HiComm Consulting

Impact June 30, 2010

I have worked with Toby over this past year, 2009 – 2010, on a signicant change management project in which we are both stakeholders.  Toby came into this process midstream and immediately provided a fresh perspective on both strategic and operational issues. His ideas have helped to re-frame the project into a more ambitious and [...]

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4 tips to use Twitter for project management

Portfolio Planning January 21, 2010

In my last post I presented a case to manage your projects as a business portfolio. The ability to deliver projects on time, on budget, and within scope directly impacts your organization’s ability to compete and stay alive and project failure is an organization-wide risk. In this post I want to introduce Twitter to manage [...]

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3 reasons for failure: change, participation, and risk

Portfolio Planning November 1, 2009

An organization builds a culture of success when it can take a strategy, identify and prioritize the most important projects within the strategy, and consistently deliver projects on time, on budget, and within identified quality standards. Charting success is not easy. 80% of all projects fail for three main reasons. 1. 80% of projects fail [...]

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Change management, project management, and the intervention

Organization Behavior October 15, 2009

Change Management is the Illness Overwhelmingly, organizations rely on process analysis to identify opportunity for savings. Process analysis is most commonly identified as change management. Change Management: Analyze and diagnose business and operations processes with a focus on the greatest areas of improvement in cost, schedule, and quality. Very few enjoy having themselves and their [...]

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