By now you know that I’m not a fan of some of the rationale behind global warming, the effect it has had on some industries, and the programs and projects that are being spun off. However, it’s here to stay and we all are going to have to deal with carbon footprint measurement, regulatory changes, […]
The Google way involves many approaches and policies that release innovation. Miki at Leadership Turn sparked my innovative synapses with her post. I focused on one item in my last post: letting people do what they want for 20% of the time. Brilliant! The second item that caught my attention was NOT managing but rather […]
Kevin Parker of Manufacturing Business Technology explored innovation as not only a process (vs. a product) but also as something we tend to constantly be engaged in simply because of the constant upgrading of technology. Talking about products on the last gasps of their lifecycles he cited studies that said:
…further cost-reducing process innovations have relatively […]
Strategy+Business’ article on the experience of the NBA’s CIO mused about what makes a CIO a strategic leader in a business (image source: www.cuttergallery.com by John Marsh). Surprisingly, they did not stress how a Project Management Office (PMO) can help harness and focus ALL projects (IT and non-IT) in a business. The focus on how to […]
Strategy+Business’ article on “The Practical Visionary“, with this excellent illustration by Paul Wearing, introduces Michael Gliedman, CIO of the NBA as the “model 21st century CIO”:
“…he is training his focus on the demand side of the IT business equation, where the needs of the business are paramount, rather than spending most of his time on […]
Wisconsin Technology Network News writes about a business led project at Dean Health Insurance. What caught my interest was that the VP of Technology, Karl Richards, used a large technology project to enhance the Project Management Office (PMO), making it more “business led”:
“The best lesson he’s [Richard’s] learned from large IT implementations is that success […]
Reading up on projects involving Business Intelligence (BI) I found an excellent Intelligent Enterprise article, “The Seven Pillars of BI Success”. What I am finding is a remarkable similarity between PMOs and their governance models and BI. This is because BI deals with centralizing information control that has been decentralized by department (silos) and many […]
Harvard Business on-line’s post by Tom Davenport seems to deal with culture when describing two extremes to strategy development and execution:
1. Strategic Engineering- strategy is an engineering exercise with employees being the cogs in the machine.
2. Strategic Anarchy- executives get out of the way of employee’s entrepreneurial and innovative energies.
He suggests that a reconciliation of […]
Margaret Rouse at IT Knowledge Exchange continues our conversation on PMOs. We started by talking about how a PMO relieves pain, then the PMO’s role in dealing with the dreaded mythical queue of projects, and now language barriers in agile software development projects .
My post on how previous experience with lean manufacturing might overcome some […]
Following up on Margaret Rouse’s post on my Choosing the Right PMO Vision Series, today we deal with the mythical queue:
Margaret: You really got me thinking. I think what REALLY blew me away was when you said that 74% of all projects fail — and that the number could be even higher for IT projects. […]
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