Today’s customer is digitally driven. If your organization is going to thrive, digital must be at the core of what you do. Add-ons and tweaks aren’t enough. These steps will set you on the path to meet your customers’ modern needs and stay relevant in the Digital Age.
Organizations are necessarily developing and executing strategies that will span multiple business cycles, as decisions made today around long-term strategies have an impact on future flexibility. But is that a problem?
In many transformation initiatives, there is a disconnect between top and bottom — that is, the executives mandating the change and the teams adapting it. Vertical slicing is a cross-functional, cross-level approach that removes communication barriers and leverages interconnected change agents throughout the organization to test and validate decisions.
Whenever a new leader assumes responsibility, there is significant risk that individual and team performance will suffer. Organizations must take steps to mitigate some of the inevitable disruption before, during and after the leadership transition. As always, communication is key. And the new leader plays an important role in it.
Similar to the technology frameworks behind the scenes of our everyday lives that improve our user interfaces, a client engagement framework can improve how organizations interface with clients, making the organization more effective and improving the quality and level of client satisfaction.
With the increased oversight on programs and projects of strategic importance, program and project managers find themselves being invited for command performances before the boards of directors. This article provides some advice for when you find yourself in this position.
While this PM loves the idea of more productivity, she has a question: Where are the challenging problems in project management? Could artificial intelligence help solve those problems?
You think you can justify that? Some organizations conduct an objective and formal analysis of their project opportunities, appropriately evaluate and prioritize them against objective criteria and make reasoned choices based upon independent assessment. There just aren’t many of them. Here, we’ll explore what does happen, and why. We’ll evaluate some alternatives and considerations in approaching project justification and talk about some of the changes that can lead to organizations making better decisions.
Analyzing information and data is a very important skill for a project manager in all phases of the project. Are you getting an "A" for analysis effort?
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