Question for You: Operations and Project Management
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"Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. ...The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The "adults", that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant." - Peter Drucker
I can see the wisdom in this, especially when the new developments are very different than existing operations.
But on the other side of the coin, when projects are very similar to existing operations, or in fact are themselves organizational changes, is this still a good idea? Or would a common source of authority and/or funding for these projects be a positive situation?
This is a question for you. What do you think?
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Posted on: December 31, 2010 04:02 PM |
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Sudarshan Harshe
PM III MBA Operations PRINCE2® SIX SIGMA| Fidel Softech
Pune, Maharashtra, India
...the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant...
May be am fortunate to have executives with best knowledge and have had enough time to guide me in handling the infant.
Secondly, I have experienced that similar projects had gone through or were diverted by situation/s in such way; that they end up in different situations. So for me any project is a new situation, no matter how many similar projects I have handled before.
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