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Executing Strategy: The Project Manager’s Role
Strategic execution continues to be one of the top challenges facing CEOs. A decade ago, a Conference Board study showed that top management ranked consistent execution of strategy third of 91 challenges. All I have read indicates that executing strategy remains a serious issue. According to an
On PM Solutions' 20-Year Anniversary, A Shout-Out to the People Who Have Made It Possible
Twenty years! When I first wrote the business plan for PM Solutions, I only dreamed of such longevity in our company. Now that we have been in business for 20 years, it seems time has gone by so quickly. I can only offer “Thanks” to all those who have taken this journey with us – our associates,
Risky Business: PMI Study Charts a Dip in Project Success Rates
Last week, our CEO Kent Crawford presented a webinar on strategies to recover troubled or failing projects to a large audience. The questions they submitted for the Q&A displayed just how much worry and stress failing projects create for project managers. We will be interviewing Kent on this blo
2016 Challenge for PMOs: Document Time-to-Value
For the first decade that I wrote about and reported on project management, almost nobody in the wider business press was talking about PM at all. I became adept at reading between the lines in business, management, strategy, and software/IT publications, looking for ways that their trends and pain-
How Many Projects Per PM? It Depends.
Last week, one of our consultants came to us with a question from a client: "What is the ideal or standard number of projects per project manager?" Questions like this are the heart of our research program. We aren’t academics and don’t aspire to be. PM Solutions Research was established to find th