Some Good Links on Social Media in PM

September 16, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I wrote that last post on my personal computer where I don't have all the work-related bookmarks stored, so I wanted to come back and add a few links to good articles and information about how successful companies are using collaborative tools to manage people and projects. From AMR Research, this

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The More Things Change ...

September 10, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I'm writing this in Paris.   (Okay, you are right, I should not be working.) But an experience today made me want to post here: Two elderly ladies sat down next to me on a park bench in the garden behind Notre Dame, and one remarked that she had seen on television the night before a story about a

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Back to School

September 7, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

September already! Yesterday I saw my first scarlet maple leaf, artistically arranged on top of a daisy, as if to graphically depict the change of seasons. The university and the high school are back in business in my little town (you can't miss the traffic on Main St. ... or the young, invincible d

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Blue-Horizon, Lights-On, and Bread-and-Butter: Balancing the Bad Times Portfolio

August 12, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I'm still digesting that Accenture research on what companies that emerged strongly from the 1990-91 downturn did differently during the bad times. As I said in my previous post, this is one of those business news articles that is all about portfolio management, without ever mentioning it. I suspe

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Spending (Less) Money to Make (More) Money

August 12, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Everyone is writing about how business can thrive in spite of the downturn ... including me. We're working on a new white paper on the ways that project management discipline can help companies contain costs and become more efficient. (You'll be able to read it here on or before August 13). But some

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