Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Ready, Set, Project!
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
It all has to start somewhere…so where do you begin?
The Overview
As part of the project creation process, your resource allocation crew collaborates to determine who and what components are going to be drawn upon to contribute to the project. Based on availability, strengths, etc., a number of individuals are selected for the team. A lead or leads are chosen of course, as well as groups and leaders of infrastructure individuals who will provide the other essential services to design, develop and make the project a reality.
Brought into the primordial stages of the project concept, they are the senior staffers and managers who have made the decision to authorize the endeavor. They are also the ones who have judged the strategic value to be worthwhile and may be the ones for you to engage directly if times get tough.
This means that communication (as well as style of communication) with these individuals is of major import, and regular reports with subject matter, timeframes and detail need to be negotiated in order to provide the best communication bridge and build a relationship.
The Basics
In developing the guidelines of your project, it is important to also define the elements that will make it function properly. The project itself will have its own “life”, so to speak--the parameters of its behavior, acceptable and unacceptable, need to be determined and …
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