“Many of the delays in individual projects arise from problems at the senior management level” – Eli Goldratt, “Critical Chain” How productive is your organization’s culture with regard to projects? As a project manager, are you often frustrated with your…
Corporations throughout the world are losing billions in wasted project spending and this waste is being carefully hidden from management and investors. A new global research report shows that one of the biggest contributing factors to failed projects is the…
The International Organization for Standardization released a new standard in the autumn of 2003. Referred to as the, “ISO 10006:2003, Guidelines for Quality Management in Projects”, it is creating the next wave in our understanding of the management of projects…
Rapid organizational change can improve performance, save money and increase employee morale. Now this may seem like a stretch, to combine the ideas of performance improvement while positively impacting our bottom-line and increasing employee morale; but these are the imperatives…
Organizations must have clear values and principles in order to be successful in modifying their culture. But to be meaningful, these values and principles must be expressed to employees in a manner that is clear to them and expresses the…
Background Despite all the rhetoric, books, effort, and money thrown into change efforts, most organizational change efforts fail. Arthur D. Little and McKinsey & Co, have studied hundreds of organizations that entered into change initiatives and have found that about…
Applying effective processes coupled with experienced facilitation can deliver effective, no nonsense solutions to problems quickly and efficiently. Business Improvement Architects set out to improve the way in which business people work by teaching them better approaches and processes and…
Many organizations struggle to meet the challenges of optimizing performance. How should they measure performance? What should they measure? And how can leaders ensure that communication channels throughout the organization are open? Too often, organizations will put in place measurement…
There have been numerous articles over the past year about the need for organizations to be more innovative, about countries lacking in innovation and about the opportunities that a culture of innovation will deliver. But despite all of this rhetoric,…
Innovation is a collaborative process through which organizations abandon old paradigms and make significant advances. Innovative ideas come from several sources, including: unreasonable demands, goals and time pressures. An organization must cultivate innovation and link it to their business improvement…
