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Let’s face it. It’s relatively easy to teach technical skills or business functions. What’s more difficult to teach are natural strengths. One strength is the
Decide how to communicate project priorities to your organization.
The use of remote workers and virtual teams has been growing steadily over the years and is a proven effective method for increasing engagement.
Ongoing planning, active engagement, empowered teams, and heavy collaboration are not only key components of an agile mindset; they’re paramount to achieving good strategy execution.
It’s hard to dispute that people are the fuel on which an organization runs. They’re what’ll carry you from an idea or a goal to a winning product or service.
Professor and author Morten Hansen wrote an excellent article on the American Management Association Playbook site titled “One Big Mistake Managers Must Avoid (It’s About Your Time)”.
With all the talk about resource capacity planning, it’s easy to forget that productivity and morale play a huge role in your organization’s capacity to get work done.
Brightline has published an excellent set of 10 guiding principles to bridge the ubiquitous gap between strategy design and delivery, and I think it should be required
For anyone implementing resource management, the paper is definitely worth a read.
In this informative 7-minute video from Harvard Business Review titled “Why Strategy Execution Unravels–And What To Do About It,” three cornerstones of successful execution are discussed, as well as five common myths.
In today’s world of digital transformation and the Internet of Things, among other advances in technology and logistics, business agility is not just an advantage, it’s a necessity.
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.” It’s wise advise. So why do so many organizations keep trying to do this to their teams?
PMO Strategy and Driving Strategy Execution
Management legend Peter Drucker said, “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”
Former Beatle Ringo Starr sang the iconic line, “You know it don’t come easy”. He could’ve easily been singing about bringing projects to the finish line successfully.
Resource Capacity Planning: Thinking Beyond Project Management
When I talk to certain people about resource capacity planning (you know who you are), their mind immediately goes to technology resources, not people.
How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact Project Management?
It was with great interest that I read a recent article in the UK-based Project Manager Today about… well… project managers tomorrow. Specifically it was about “how project management roles might change in the future.”
