Forbes magazine recently wrote about “The Death of Hardware“. As in many Forbes articles I find a bit of sensationalism but it was interesting to ponder.
This one caught my attention due to my recent experience using Google applications to centralize control of basic spreadsheet information; the on-line applications allowed a project team to easily use […]
A recent September 2007 Gartner study titled “Building Agile Manufacturing That Enables Transformation” made several great points:
1. Changing forces in market, customer expectations and technology demand more agility and quickness in business processes.
2. Using a ”myths” leading to “misses” discussion they challenge people to look outside their environment for innovations saying that people and companies tend to “lock […]
A conversation a few months ago with a VP of a large Los Angeles area home builder revealed they had done extensive lean continuous improvement projects but were definitely not starting any more soon. The market from their perspective had “crashed” causing them to get orders to stop large home building projects and also stop most training and […]
An interesting conversation with a consultant to a government agency involved in construction projects revealed that “old school” project management approaches are giving way to recent winning ways especially in terms of PMO set up and influence. A lot of this change is simply due to retirements and overcoming what some call “the oral tradition […]
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