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Strategic IT Project Management

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments

“Managing an IT project is like juggling chunks of Jell-O: It’s neither easy nor pretty.” So it says in an excellent article on IT Project Management is CIO magazine. The article goes on to say, very accurately I think, that “Information technology is especially slippery because it’s always moving, changing, adapting and challenging business as we know it.”

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Right-Sizing 101

February 12th, 2009 · No Comments

In today’s economy, managers of all kinds are under pressure to right-size their businesses or business units. With the contraction of the economy, sales decreases trigger the need for rethinking, resizing, and reshaping throughout any organization. Projects and programs are no different. Let’s take a look.

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Identifying Six Sigma Projects in the Portfolio

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Six Sigma projects are derived from organizational strategy, in the same way that organizational strategy drives the selection of all projects and programs in an organization’s Portfolio. So, how do the business drivers that are at work result in some projects being Six Sigma projects, and others not?

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Business-driven to Technology-driven?

August 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Let’s not lose site of the fact that technology is not really the driver here! The driver is the need to collaborate more freely, to find information more easily, to develop and build trust online by providing people-driven credibility, and to connect with networks of like-minded people. The danger here is moving from business-driven to technology-driven.

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Tags: Online Project Management