PMI Team Member
Last year I was part of a fun group of 8 that participated in “Plan B The Journey” as hosted by Daphne Depassé. “Plan B is just what it says. It’s another path. For prob ...
Can these waves co-exist? The need to balance creationism with conservatism is a philosophical debate that runs deep and--at first glance--outside the realm of IT project management. Look a little closer though; the intersection of these worlds hits home more than it might first appear when examining whether innovation and process can co-exist.
Different project managers look at the world in different ways. How do you see your role? • Innovator – You come in and look for opportunities to manage projects in completely new and different way ...
Learning by doing -- on the fly!
This blog has often dealt with the issue of distractions on workforce performance. Here’s an interview with someone who studies distractions, which leads to the question: where do you get grant money ...
From the Gartner PPM Summit 2007
If the first time your customers see a product is
during a focus group, then you have lost 70 percent of the opportunity to leverage them in the innovation process.
Projects are usually pushed to meet impossible goals. This INPD Coffee Corner is going to present Transactional Analysis (TA) concepts and show how they can be used by project teams to improve results.
Lateral Thinking is a dependable, systematic approach to creative thinking. It’s used as an igniter, striking the matches that lead to innovation in process, product, and problem solving. It gives people the tools they need to find profound solutions to the stubborn problems and roadblocks they encounter. Lateral Thinking provides unconventional techniques that help people escape from their usual patterns of thinking to produce enhanced results. The key is creativity. Innovation will never happen without creative ideas, processes, and thoughts. This webinar is a fast-paced, practical, interactive overview of Lateral Thinking.
Six Thinking Hats, a thinking skills course from Edward de Bono, teaches parallel thinking as an alternative to argument. Parallel thinking guides thought processes in one direction at a time so we can effectively analyze issues, generate new ideas, and make better decisions. Six Thinking Hats helps put our opinions and egos aside so we can focus on a way forward, without argument. This overview of Six Thinking Hats is fast-paced, practical, interactive, and immediately actionable.
This webinar provides key learnings in strategic initiatives. At the end you will learn: • What is a strategic initiative and what are the success factors? • How can you sell a vision? • What are some tips for making faster and better decisions? • Why program management is not project management on steroids • How leaders work with ambiguity and conflict • How strategic initiatives helped Domino’s Pizza Turnaround, “Driving Growth Through Innovation” at Royal DSM and Destination Disney • And much more
We present Strategic Project Leadership® (SPL), which integrates business, innovation, and project leadership in one strategic model.
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"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." - ChuangTzu |
