I’ve mentioned an on-going marketing project for advanced PMOs in my “Vision Beyond the Vision” post in the “Choosing the Right PMO Vision” series; this project is developing, and continuously improving, a compelling marketing offer. The way to view this is to ask your customers what they hate about dealing with the industry you are in- NOT […]
Our apprentice-like challenge is in its fourth week and the b5 Media Aces have completed their response to the fourth and latest entrepreneur challenge. The advice should serve any entrepreneur attempting to get through their first holiday season. Let us know what you think.
Kay, our intrepid entrepreneur, is seeing some great success with her hats […]
Great post summarizing agile software development estimation methods at Leading Answers. We “user types” can learn a great deal from agile methods as they mirror lean and theory of constraints approaches. Particularly interesting are the group estimation techniques that enable estimates that are more likely to include assumptions and are more likely to result in […]
“Manufacturing Business Technology” magazine’s article on Business Process Management (BPM) maturity tries but misses by not providing a solution to the problem presented. They id the problem very well with a quote from Carl Frappaolo, VP of Market Intelligence for AIIM- “when you look at who’s performing business process management and who they report to, […]
Miki Saxon writes about leaders that “do”. That alone says a lot; her way with words spark my brain cells. Read about “team” vs. “ream” leadership as she illuminates private equity funding approaches and her short but sweet post on her other blog about gifts that matter. They deal with managers, whether supervisors, project managers, or CEOs, that understand the […]
As you know, I’m a big supporter of innovation processes being performed by a project management office (PMO). As such I am very interested in anything having to do with innovation strategy. An article in Strategy + Business spoke about a new book by John Kao on why the US is missing the boat in […]
Sometimes the conversations that we have on-line are revealing and illuminating. My recent discussion with ActiveEngine Sensei, who focuses on software development processes, allowed us to share lean, agile and best practice collaboration processes that drastically cut wasteful activity and accelerate business processes. He comes from a software development perspective whereas I come from a […]
My series on “Choosing the Right PMO” concludes with this post about the most important twin goals of an organization and therefore a PMO:
1. Execute strategies- the record is very poor here. Most companies do a very bad job of executing strategies. Strategies lead to tactics which lead to projects. If your project management is out […]
A PMO conducting research? Sounds like we have a mini-Gartner or AMR on our hands. And why not? This is the ultimate best of the best practice for a company and a PMO. The PMO is in the best position to do this because it is the vehicle that best supports execution of strategies.
The logic […]
Best of the best PMOs can support marketing strategies by continuously performing two projects (or project areas):
1. One factor/single focus that makes the organization number one in their industry- This is truly a continuous effort that can change focus often. The PMO that plays a leading role in this area helps a company maintain it’s […]
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