Meeting the demands of today’s Amazon-impacted world requires meaningful collaboration within your organization and with supply chain partners. Published in "Project Times" website, March 21, 2016 Click here for original article. How important is collaboration to project success? Several years ago, it was important but not critical; however, within [...]
The common factors leading to a project’s success include leadership, support, and management. Clear your team’s path with sufficient attention to these areas for the results you want. Published in "Project Times" website, April 12, 2016 Click here for original article. After leading hundreds of projects and participating with [...]
Project success starts and ends with people. Give your project a head start with a top leader to guide the cross-functional tasks along the way. Published in "Project Times" website, May 10, 2016 Click here for original article. In reviewing project successes and failures, it turns out that project [...]
More and more clients are pursuing ERP implementation projects as executives realize they need better tools to support business objectives – growth, service, margins, cash and the like. Published in "Project Times" website, July 18, 2016 Click here for original article. More and more clients are pursuing ERP implementation [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, August 16, 2016 Click here for original article. In project management circles, we hear a lot about agile. Agile is an iterative, incremental method of managing the design and build activities of engineering, systems, etc. Recently, I ran across a firm that didn't use [...]
Published in "Liquid Planners" website, August 25, 2016 Click here for original article. Supply chains continue to increase in complexity. I've observed this firsthand from managing hundreds of projects in manufacturing organizations over the last 25 years, including navigating end-to-end supply chain. Being able to effectively manage this complexity [...]
When faced with a challenging system implementation, take a step back and reassess instead of devoting more resources to a plan that may not work out. From time to time, we receive a call from a client dealing with a challenged ERP implementation. Unfortunately, "challenged" is a nice word [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, September 19, 2016 Click here for original article. Projects are instrumental in growing the business and making a profit. Thus, it is critical that we find simple yet effective ways to make sure we are successful. In my 25+ years of project management experience, [...]
LMA Consulting Group’s Lisa Anderson to Present The Amazon Effect: Creating a Customer Service Edge at 2016 PMICIE Professional Development Day Lisa Anderson MBA,CSCP, president of LMA Consulting Group, will speak to the Project Management Institute (PMI) – Inland Empire Chapter on Saturday, September 10, 2016, 10:00 AM – [...]
Take the necessary steps and dedicate resources to review processes and think more broadly about specific steps and functions before the purchase of a new ERP system. We received a call this week from another frustrated CEO who is struggling with a system implementation. What we hear frequently from [...]
