Published in Project Times August 7, 2013 As a global business consultant serving multiple industries, I have yet to find a company that doesn’t have project management challenges. Project success is vital to the company’s success. For example, since project management typically cuts across functional departments, the projects typically [...]
Published in Project Times May 29, 2013 What company doesn't have at least several projects going at once to try to support essential objectives? In my 20+ years of experience as a global business consultant and operations executive, I've yet to see one! As projects are commonplace in organizations, [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, September, 2009 Click here for original article. The current recession has made it all the more critical that companies deliver the expected project results - on time, on/under budget and meeting/exceeding the intended results. Therefore, it is critical that we throw out the old [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, October, 2009 Click here for original article. There are so many high quality people in the job search process today - after all, unemployment rates continue to increase, even though at a slower rate. Tell this "comforting" statistic to the exasperated job seeker. For [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, November, 2009 Click here for original article. Eliminate the excuses! There's NO investment required to achieve the 80/20 of project management success. As businesses are struggling in the recession or reluctant to spend as they slowly emerge from the recessionary climate, it seems timely [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, December, 2009 Click here for original article. In today's news headlines, we hear that companies are beginning to rebound from the recession in terms of improved profit; however, when we dig further, it's clear that the majority of the improvement is due to cost [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, February, 2010 Click here for original article. As we are beginning to emerge from the recession, I've noticed that there has been an uptick in interest for ERP implementations. Of course, we are nowhere near the interest levels of pre-2000; however, businesses are beginning [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, August, 2012 Click here for original article. As we are beginning to emerge from the recession (and starting to feel as though we've survived the worst of it), executives are beginning to think about "what's next" - how to achieve their strategy and translate [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, May, 2010 Click here for original article. In my experience in working with multiple companies across multiple industries and globally, I’ve seen many projects succeed while others fail. Although there are countless types of projects, ranging from a new product launch project to a [...]
Published in "Project Times" website, June, 2010 Click here for original article. There’s no doubt that executive commitment is a critical ingredient to meeting and exceeding project results. As a former VP of Operations and a global business consultant, I’ve been involved with or led hundreds of projects. A [...]
