Insights: White Papers
The Business-Savvy Project Manager
The past decade has seen the convergence of two trends that drive the need for project and program managers to improve their business acumen: as organizations have become less hierarchical, they increasingly rely on projects and programs to gain competitive edge.
TAGS: Project Management Trends, Project Manager Competency
Creating a Change-Ready Organization
Creating a Change-Ready Organization discusses those aspects of project management that support the management of organizational change: stakeholder analysis to get buy-in and reduce resistance, communication planning to create a shared vision, and making measurement planning an integral part of sco
TAGS: Change Management, Project Management Trends
Building Project Manager Competency Improves Business Outcomes
Training and development leaders in five global organizations were interviewed about their experiences with measuring the value of their project management training initiatives. The result? For those companies that had implemented even the most basic tracking and measurement programs, the value was
TAGS: Project Management Training, Project Manager Competency
Recover Troubled Projects
Projects can be successfully recovered if a process exists for the intervention. This white paper focuses on the project recovery process, and showcases the project manager's role in leading interventions.
TAGS: Project Recovery
Advancing Organizational Project Management Maturity
To stay healthy and competitive, an organization must continually reinvest in its project management infrastructure. And, it is equally vital to improve the project management discipline so that the organization can thrive. This white paper discusses moving to Level 3 maturity and beyond, while impr
TAGS: Performance Measurement, Project Management Maturity