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"The Art of the Possible": An Interview with Dr. Al Zeitoun, PMP
If you’ve been following PM Solutions this past month, you already know that we’ve gained a new President. Al Zeitoun, PhD, PMP has taken on one of the roles previously carried out by our founder and CEO J. Kent Crawford. We’ve welcomed him with a fresh round of strategic planning, which has now mo
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-