An article by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague in the Harvard Business Review suggests that placing major emphasis on changing an organization’s culture is putting the cart before the horse. In the article, entitled Culture is Not the Culprit… Read the rest ...
Change invariably spawns problems. Hopefully they’re small and can be fixed quickly and inexpensively. But sometimes the problems encountered are doozies that disrupt normal, day-to-day operations. The bigger the change, the greater the risk of business disruption. So, we spend … Read the rest ...
Sometimes, the best of intentions results in unanticipated, and undesired, consequences. The French economic journalist Frédéric Bastiat wrote in his essay “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”: There is only one difference between a bad economist and a … Read the rest ...
In most organizations, the demand for project work far exceeds the funding and resources available. Aproaches to resolve this challenge vary from pitched power struggles, rigorous portfolio management practices and demand management arrangements to siloing strategies and executive dictates.
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Strategic planning. It’s that corporate activity that happens every four or five years, takes six months to complete and requires an annual renewal cycle to update the long term projections. Or, it may happen every six months at a company … Read the rest ...
I expect most of us have had a project experience or two where considerable extra time and effort were required to deliver our change successfully. Where we pulled all-nighters, where teammates crashed on conference tables and chairs for a couple … Read the rest ...
Let’s be honest. A project manager’s authority typically revolves around how to deliver a planned changed to the sponsor’s who, when, what, where and why dictates. When a sponsor won’t make an essential call on a project issue, the PM … Read the rest ...
We often fail to see parallels in life that can provide valuable insights and meaningful direction. Sometimes, stepping outside the box of our usual personal and professional lives can provide that Ah-Ha moment that helps set a new and successful … Read the rest ...
Making sure key business processes and technologies are aligned to an organization’s strategic directions is almost a pre-requisite for survival these days. When upgrading those core services, a cloud solution is often in the mix. But a move to the … Read the rest ...
Sponsors tend to think of the changes they launch in monolithic terms – one size fits all. In reality though, nothing could be further from the truth. The number of physical locations and unique perspectives and needs involved in developing … Read the rest ...