I’m still so new to blogging. But I’ve learned a lot about it: how to write better posts, highlighting, commenting, linking, and blinking until my eyes turn red. What seems to be very important is linking to other bloggers who have a lot of traffic- well, duh!
But it takes time- people have to find […]
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 […]
In my last post I said strategy mapping is “seemingly simple” because environments have different requirements depending on the industry, size, growth patterns, and degree of change. For example, an implantable medical device manufacturer I worked with was more concerned with having scalable business processes and systems because they expected extremely high growth once the […]
Aligning projects with strategies, assuming that the company has strategies, is one of the simplest ways to quickly see which projects are worth doing. Conversely, projects that don’t align with strategies should quickly be assessed and probably stopped. One of the ways to get a read on alignment is to simply put together a strategy […]
My fellow blogger at www.pimpyourwork.com is hosting a New Year’s Resolution Contest. It inspired me to come up with a few for firms wanting to improve strategy execution and innovation:
1. Take a project inventory.
2. Align projects with strategies.
3. Set up a PMO-like organization.
4. Learn about Theory of Constraints.
5. Adopt a value (vs. cost) orientation.
6. Research […]
“How you respond is everything”, I told my daughters when they faced difficult situations in school or at work. I can vividly remember one of them crying and wondering when we were going to get out of a difficult financial situation. She was feeling the pressure of cutting back on things we used to do. […]
Showing respect for employees in lean and non-lean environments was recently explored in my periodic email from the www.leanexecutive.com.
First the non-lean approach: hire smart people, give them great latitude in how they do their work to show trust, and hold them to objective measures of performance. On it’s face, this sounds OK.
A lean environment […]
I write about what I am interested in. My experience and passion are about helping executives innovate and execute strategies through projects. The types of projects that fascinate me are those that enable business processes through technology in an extremely valuable way.
So, who is my audience? I would think anyone who, like me, is involved […]
Innovation and executing strategies through projects
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