Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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From the Negev Desert to New Orleans, the opportunities for project managers to make a difference in times of crisis have never been more real or more urgent. But risk and reward take on new meanings when the stage is global and the product is improving lives. In this multi-part series, we’ll introduce you to people who are bringing project management to humanitarian efforts.
From helping to build an airstrip in Israel’s Negev Desert to work with the Alyeska oil pipeline in Alaska, projects have long come on a grand scale for Paul Giammalvo, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based project management consultant and educator with more than 35 years of experience. So when the giant tsunami roared over Indian Ocean coastal villages in late 2004, he and his colleagues assumed their skills would be put right to use rebuilding property and lives in the devastated Aceh province.
That happened, Giammalvo says, but not before they also got a solid lesson in the difficulty of making aid happen and the role good project management can play in humanitarian crises.
Indeed, many experts believe project management will only become more necessary as aid groups are forced to do more with less and development projects become more complex, even if they might disagree on what form it should take.
While worrying that over-reliance on …
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