The alignment of strategic planning with execution stands as a critical yet often elusive goal. Here we explore how project managers can serve as the pivotal bridge, ensuring that strategic plans are not just visionary documents, but roadmaps to tangible outcomes.
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We start the new decade with a bang as we present the 13th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition! Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, PMXPO provides an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and broaden your perspective on project management. This year’s show is headlined by keynote speaker Cara Brookins, a bestselling author who rebuilt her broken family by building her own house watching “how-to” videos on YouTube.
The PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2019 explores the impact of rapidly changing technologies on the project management profession across industries. Participants will gain an understanding of how to better position themselves for growth and to identify talent for their project teams.
Now on demand! We kick off the 12th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition with some spectacular speakers and game-changing sessions. This year’s keynote speaker is Derreck Kayongo, founder of the Global Soap Project. Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, this is an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs, and broaden your perspective on project management.
Factor inclusive design into your products and services to embrace diversity.
This presentation is focused on research on organizational context, particularly on studying the dimensions of the organizational context in the realm of projects.
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.
This is the presentation for Priya Patra's webinar Rule the VUCA World - Innovation and Agility
The webinar of this presentation will consider how the combination of innovation and agility can produce business value while aligning service. Attendees will learn how they can drive change for innovative and disruptive transformation.
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to manage in creative and innovative environments. Drawing on insights and experiences in a range of creative professions and environments, he explores the work of creativity and innovation. He shares real-life experiences of individuals in a variety of professions and environments, and uses these experiences to develop broader principles for delivering creative work. Finally, he offers guidance on how to think about planning and managing work in situations where creativity and innovation are essential. Creativity can indeed by managed; join us to find out how.
Innovation isn’t a straightforward path. It’s more like venturing into unknown territory, with unexpected curves and challenging climbs. That's why leaders need to think and act differently.
As our field evolves and integrates with innovation, project managers must adapt by developing a new set of skills. Here we look at strategies for effectively integrating innovation within project management—and how we can close the PM/innovation gap.
There are immense benefits to integrating AI into the product development process, but only if project managers and teams seize the opportunities. Here are four best practices to help you leverage AI to deliver smarter, more valuable outcomes.
Several best practices have emerged over the years to enhance the success rates of digital transformation projects. Here we look at seven—and explore what makes them different from AI implementation projects, which are often mistaken for them.
Organizations can’t wait out uncertainty, whether it is economic, technological or societal. They also can’t pursue strategies to avoid or control disruption. Instead, they must pursue and explore innovation, mitigate risk intelligently, and learn from the outcomes of that work.
Organizations can improve project success rates through the strategic application of artificial intelligence tools, but they’ll improve their chances even more through agile-based change management practices and leadership.
Having a long-term vision and strong project management is essential for nations to develop. However, only a handful of countries have been successful at it. Here we examine some that have embraced a visionary approach—and why others haven't.
Project managers must increasingly navigate more complex and dynamic environments to deliver their projects successfully. Here we look at some of the biggest challenges our profession faces in this modern era—and share strategies to overcome them.
While still in its infancy, ChatGPT has already caused some sleepless nights. What are the implications of this new technology for project managers, and what can they do to thrive in this burgeoning field of artificial intelligence?
This year will be a turning point for artificial intelligence, one of the seven top technology trends that project managers and organizations must focus on. What else made the list—and how prepared are you to adapt?
Instead of driving the completion of tasks, project leaders should point teams in the right direction and empower them to deliver positive results. Good teams become great when they have the resources needed to succeed, the flexibility to innovate, and the ownership to grow.
When Agile emerged on the scene, it was a dramatic alternative to the way that projects were traditionally delivered, forcing organizations and teams to rethink what they were doing and how. But now that Agile is mainstream, what’s the Next Big Disruptor?
Inflation running rampant. Supply chain problems continuing. Energy prices through the roof. Thank goodness for an army of elves!
Nearly a decade ago, this practitioner examined the proposition that if we want to understand what project management’s future might look like, a good place to start is to look at how people in the past envisioned the future. Is that proposition still valid?
Some innovations and sci-fi level technologies that we once only imagined in the movies (Internet of the Body? Thought-driven prosthetics?) are just around the corner. Is this something we should applaud or fear?
