Business managers and entrepreneurs can not only drive bottom line business results by leveraging emerging supply chain trends, they can also stand out in the crowd in today's competition-intense new normal business environment.
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.
Is accountability a key component to project management? Only if you want to succeed!
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.
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.
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. [...]
Do you have to collaborate across functions to be successful? How about cross-companies?
As important as project teams, project tasks, and critical milestones are to project success, they do not compare to the importance of marketing.
As we start off the New Year, it often takes a while to get back into the swing of things.
As we close out the year, wouldn’t it be nice to achieve year-end results with critical projects?
