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bySustainable IT projects make your company look good - but it's probably the lower energy bills that will get them approved.
How does project management relate to Sustainability?
How Green Does Your IT Grow?
byGreen is beautiful, and it is certainly the color of IT looking into the future. There is a challenge, however, to coordinating the environmental shade of green with the financial one. Here are some thoughts and ideas for greening up your IT initiatives while holding on to the green stuff that pays the bills.
Nurturing the Next Big Thing: Innovation Requires Cutting Edge and Tradition
byThere is no shortage of surveys heralding the miracle of innovation for organizations trying to remain competitive in a volatile global economy. As that uncertainty becomes the norm, the focus on innovation is bound to grow. This article discusses how organizations must find a way to marry the fundamentals of project governance that helped them get where they are with the breakthrough concepts that will get them where they need to be. In doing so, it looks at how a solar energy and clean-tech company turns prototypes into business solutions by slashing time-to-market without sacrificing quality. Next, the article details how companies innovate during troubled economic times, citing a study by Wipro and Forbes Insight's Growth Strategies for 2012 and Beyond, which reports that 68 percent of global executives agree that innovation is more important now than before the recession. It then identifies areas where organizations fall short. The article discusses how organizations can make the jump from a cutting-edge concept to a full-fledged project that delivers true innovation and examines how review strategies can help companies identify innovative concepts that are not up to par. It looks at how companies can collaborate on innovative concepts by detailing how Ford Motor Company and Weyerhaeuser worked together on a project to replace fiberglass or mineral reinforcements and reveals the positive results of this collaboration. It then summarizes how an innovation governance process may help organizations find the balance between fostering creativity and demanding measurable outcomes and explains how an innovation steering committee can evaluate proofs of concept and how they align with strategic goals of the business. Accompanying the article are two case studies: The first case study examines OnStar's (Detroit, Michigan, USA) innovation strategy. The second case study discusses Petra Solar's (South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA) innovative solar technology, smart-grid and clean-tech projects.
Going for the Green: In Pursuit of Eco-Friendly IT
byHow green are you? For many, implementing Green IT solutions is an imperative that transcends ROI or enterprise alignment. For others, it's a good thing to go green if it is cost effective and in tune with other stakeholder expectations and needs.
Agile Sustainability: The Business Case for Lean, Agile and Green
byFor those project managers practicing agile practices and methods, you already have all the ingredients in place to optimize your green initiatives. This article will attempt to illustrate how agile principles can enhance and compliment projects that have sustainability as one of its main end goals.
Project Manager’s Sustainability Checklist
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The Project Manager’s Sustainability Checklist is a tool used to aid the project manager and project team in addressing sustainability factors for all areas of the project. This checklist is specifically designed to help meet sustainability needs that project teams and project managers face. This checklist can be considered a template to be modified by an organization, or even by a project team, as needed.
Project Manager - Should You Really BE THE CHANGE?
from Project Management 2.0 posted by onSituation: You've been thinking about the big picture.Over the last couple of years, I've listened to PMI's CEO, Greg Balestrero talk A LOT about sustainability at PMI Global Congresses and other venu ...
Project Management doesn’t have to cost the earth
from The Money Files posted by onThere’s a lot around at the moment about green project management. It’s a good thing: we could all benefit from living and working in a more sustainable way. However, selling t ...
Why Project Management Needs to Address Sustainability
from Sustainability: The Power of Four-P posted by onWhat does project management have to do with sustainability? Seen in a certain light, one could argue that project managers are like accountants: they could be doing a job for Mother Theresa or the Mo ...
The cultural change needed: From problems to dreams
from From almost zero level posted by onIn Latin America, and particularly, in Peru, we had a very long period living under a problem-focused model of conceiving projects. Both, from the government and private sector, the concerning was alw ...
Managing to Go Green
from Voices on Project Management posted by onIs it expensive to build and run a green factory? I had been wondering this before meeting Chuang Tzu-Sou, director of the new fab planning and engineering division of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufac ...
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