6 Pitfalls to Program Management Success for Manufacturing Leaders
Stay in the manufacturing game - avoid common program management pitfalls.
Lessons Learned: Asking Questions isn’t Enough!
As a global business consultant, entrepreneur and operations strategist, I’ve seen countless business strategies, plans and projects succeed or fail based solely on what might be considered a nonessential question.
Overloaded Project Manager? Here are 8 Simple Tips to Help!
Successful project management needs to start with an objective, get the right team in place and aggressively anticipate and manage roadblocks.
Operations Strategy
I’ve been thinking a lot about this subject recently as I realized that the 80/20 of what I do for clients can fit into this category.
Social Media Buzzing in the News
According to a recent Deloitte and Forbes Insight study, business leaders identified social media as the 4th largest risk source for the next 3 years.
Is Accountability a Key Component for Project Management?
Is accountability a key component to project management? Only if you want to succeed!
How Can We Avoid Project Disasters?
Although I consult with clients globally on how to improve operational performance, I find the 80/20 of achieving bottom line business results traces back to a series of successful project/program rollouts.
Project Management Coaching Best Practices
In speaking to an ExecSense audience recently about coaching, I realized that coaching is not only relevant to COOs but can be the difference between success and failure on any project or for any project leader.
What are the Top 3 Obstacles in Projects
When I spoke at the Project Managers SIG in Silicon Valley recently, we spent the majority of the time talking about overcoming obstacles. Upon returning, I faced several new obstacles in a construction project I've been coordinating, and so I've been thinking of the critical importance of overcoming obstacles. [...]
Case Study in Cross-Company Project Collaboration
Do you have to collaborate across functions to be successful? How about cross-companies?