Business managers and entrepreneurs can not only drive bottom line business results by leveraging emerging supply chain trends, they can also stand out in the crowd in today's competition-intense new normal business environment.
Stay in the manufacturing game - avoid common program management pitfalls.
As a global business consultant, entrepreneur and operations strategist, I’ve seen countless business strategies, plans and projects succeed or fail based solely on what might be considered a nonessential question.
Successful project management needs to start with an objective, get the right team in place and aggressively anticipate and manage roadblocks.
Is accountability a key component to project management? Only if you want to succeed!
Although I consult with clients globally on how to improve operational performance, I find the 80/20 of achieving bottom line business results traces back to a series of successful project/program rollouts.
In speaking to an ExecSense audience recently about coaching, I realized that coaching is not only relevant to COOs but can be the difference between success and failure on any project or for any project leader.
When I spoke at the Project Managers SIG in Silicon Valley recently, we spent the majority of the time talking about overcoming obstacles. Upon returning, I faced several new obstacles in a construction project I've been coordinating, and so I've been thinking of the critical importance of overcoming obstacles. [...]
Do you have to collaborate across functions to be successful? How about cross-companies?
We have entered a new normal business environment – and we aren’t going back to the way it used to be!
