More on PM and the Times We Live In

February 19, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just after I made my last post, several things came across my desk that said: Nope, you aren't crazy after all. First, my colleague Matt Crawford sent me this link to coverage of the role of PMOs in the downturn. According to the CIO of the Baylor Health Care System, "Anytime you add what might ap

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(Human) Resource Management

January 26, 2009

This blog was updated June 2025. Well, the numbers are crunched, sliced and diced, and our new research report on Resource Management Challenges has been posted on our website ... and while I can't say the results hold any big surprises, there are a few things I wanted to hold up and point at (whic

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2009: Thoughts from - and for - the C-Level

December 16, 2008 | by J. Kent Crawford

Whew! These are some challenging times. As I read the news daily I am struck by the fact that our economic woes are primarily management failures - failures in the areas of governance and strategy. This only inspires me to redouble my efforts to spread the word about integrating the strategic level

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Those Ups and Downs

December 10, 2008 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

One of my favorite scenes in movie history is from The Lion in Winter, which takes place at Christmas in the castle where Henry II (Peter O'Toole) has imprisoned his uppity spouse Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn). In the midst of a raging domestic battle over the king's mistress and his succ

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Crossing the Great Divide

October 20, 2008

No, this post isn't about the Rockies ... except in the sense that projects face a rocky road when confronting with resource management challenges ... which is, according to our research, the most common challenge in project management. No, the divide I'm posting about is the one between projects

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