This article from Insurance Networking is strangely appropriate for CIOs trying to consider how to enable their teams and the IT department as a whole. The article focuses on a meeting between the author (Pat Speer) and Tsukasa Makino, deputy general manager of the Corporate Planning Department and IT Planning Department at Tokio Marine& Nichido [...]
If you buy a new king-size bed and try to put the headboard from your old full-size bed onto it, you are going to have a bad time. No matter how well that headboard fits the motif that you or your spouse picked out, it is just not the right fit for the new bed. [...]
Creative thinking has not been limited to the artists, designers, and writers within a business for quite some time now. Today, creativity is an absolutely necessary part of life for many departments within many corporations. Currently, with the booming increase in popularity for applications and games, creatively-minded individuals are in even greater demand. This is [...]
Although the Titanic has become the quintessential example of disaster in our culture, Greg Sanker notes that the protocols in place on the Titanic to avert disasters were actually pretty sound. Lookouts positioned up in the crow’s nest would scan the open seas with their naked eye for dangers, and Edward Smith was apparently an [...]
IT Professionals deal with less than favorable odds when it comes to the requirements of IT portfolio management. There are the priorities of customers which can clash with the priorities of your business. There are the requirements changes, economic environment, and plain old change of course to content with on a day-to-day basis. Add all of [...]
No matter how your organization deals with planning, the approach usually includes charting a determined amount of finances and human effort. Afterword, this information is reviewed across all projects. This is how organizations decide which projects deserve the most funding and which projects are of the highest priority. According to Kiron D. Bondale of PM [...]
Being a project team member can be tricky, and trying to manage a project based on set rules can be even more challenging. The truth is, as one project differs from the next, the standards for completing the project differ as well. However, no matter how different your projects may be from each other, there [...]
In your mind, your project status report is a super computer filled to the brim with the brilliant assortment of data you have collected. Everything you need is always immediately within reach, and occasionally, you laugh maniacally just because such an incredible status report deserves a triumphant cackle now and then. But in reality, the [...]
Get work done right or on time. It should not be the case that you have to choose one or the other, but sometimes extenuating circumstances get in the way. Maybe your boss is an ogre, or maybe someone accidentally blew the budget by deciding to hire Frankie Valli to host the office Christmas party. [...]
If you have a passion for something, you are bound to work hard at it. This should be as true in business as it is in our personal lives. According to an article by Roger Chou of The Project Management Institute, the passion you have for a project or product can be as important as [...]
Some project managers are worth their weight in gold, while others are not even worth the money it took to print their magnetic name tags. There are several variables that separate a good project manager from the bumbling, the incompetent, and the lazy project managers, and if you want to be sure you are standing [...]
Before you can even embark on a software project, you must decide with methodology to use. Those who prefer traditional methods will likely choose the waterfall approach, and those who have become tired of waterfall will chose the agile approach. Susanne Madsen recognizes in an article for PM Hut that many projects end up following [...]
Yes, even the leaders in your organization get fed up with work sometimes. Keeping your leaders motivated is essential: if they lose motivation the team under them surely will as well. This article by Ron Edmondson discusses 7 ways to motivate your leaders and give them the vim and vigor needed to keep your organization [...]
Training employees on new software can be a daunting task by itself, but it becomes even more of a challenge when those employees are globally scattered. Tara Duggan of Demand Media recognizes how difficult organizing global employees can be. There must be a little bit of give and take from each involved party. Duggan suggests [...]
Individuals within a corporation need training, but too often money and time is wasted in the process. In an article by Rachel Emma Silverman of The Wall Street Journal, companies must analyze what needs really need to be met before overfunding any type of training. Silverman’s other tips include focusing on design and following up [...]
In this paper by Kevin Lewis, Ph.D., we are given eight of the most common reasons why software implementation projects fail. Although Lewis suggests that many organizations make project implantation more difficult than it needs to be, he also recognizes where the errors tend to occur. Lewis’s reasons include lack of line sponsorship, identification of [...]
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