What’s the Value of Management Consulting?

May 31, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Now, there’s a loaded question. But it is one we constantly strive to answer in our consulting practice; take a look at the “Results” sections of our client case studies, posted here, to get situation-specific answers. In addition to these industry- and organization-specific value datapoints, we ju

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Where Agility Lives: Your Strategy Execution Questions, Answered: Part 3

May 17, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I’ve left the most complex question for last. One of our webinar attendees queried: What is the best way to engage in a conversation about traditional PMO roles and activities in an organization that is using Agile delivery and methodologies? One of the problems with answering these questions a

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Strategic Nuts and Bolts: Part 2 of “Your Strategy Execution Questions Answered”

April 26, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Have you ever sat down to work, looked at your list and opted to do the handful of easy tasks rather than tackle the most important item? Yeah, me too. In the same way that individuals mis-focus their energies at work, companies sometimes get bogged down in minutiae rather than addressing their big

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Your Questions About Strategy Execution, Answered

April 12, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

We had a well-attended webinar at the end of January during which Kent Crawford and Bruce Miller laid out some of the compelling findings of our 2017 research study, (View the recording here.) At the end, there were a handful of submitted questions left unanswered; many of them were about the demog

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Strategy and Projects: Then and Now

March 27, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I recently updated a chapter on strategy and projects that I wrote for The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Fourth Edition, which went to press in 2013. In just five years, the change in the "buzz" about the role of project management in strategy execution is startling. Rewind for a little persp

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