Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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Your New Best Friends
Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.
Few IT projects are more complex than efforts to introduce new software systems into an organization. Whether your project is replacing existing systems or drastically upgrading an existing system, you become involved with many non-IT groups managing activities that are tightly dependent on the timing of the software development and deployment. These groups are rapacious when it comes to the latest decisions and information from your activities. They’ll soon become your new “best friends.”
There’s the hard way and the easy way to deal with your new best friends. The hard way is to disregard the importance of these groups to the success of the project as a whole and their need for the latest news. The hard way results in the failure of the introduction of the new system and you being identified as responsible, even though you were successful at your specific responsibilities.
The easy way to deal with your new best friends is to understand the needs of these groups and provide the necessary information in a way that meets their needs. Done correctly, the easy way does not have to cost you significant time and effort.
First of all, who are these groups? They are involved with simultaneous interconnected projects transitioning to a new way to manage the workforce. Your new best friends include:
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Groups that redefine the functional roles of the system …
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