In my 20 years of experience both as a former VP of Operations and a business consultant and entrepreneur, I've run across many different companies in different industries with different people, different processes and different systems, and yet they all typically have the same challenge - successful project management.
In today’s new “normal” business environment characterized by lackluster sales and strained liquidity with elevated customer expectations, there is no room for project failure.
Too many projects fail to deliver the intended results.
In my experience in working with project teams globally across multiple industries, I’ve found the following three strategies provide the optimal route to achieve success
Those companies who invested during the last three recessions have passed by their competition who didn’t invest! If you survived through the recession and are working to leverage the recovery with a few key projects, there’s no time to waste with miss-managed projects – or you’ll see your competition [...]
After stagnating during the recession, executives are anxious to find ways to take advantage of the recovery to drive bottom line results and surpass the competition.
I’ve found that there is as much if not more to learn by observing awful project managers than exceptional project managers.
The recovery is here; there’s no more time for analysis and inaction.
Instead of being one-of-the-crowd and slowly getting back into the swing of things following the holidays, use this time frame as an opportunity to hit a grand slam while the opposing team is groggy.
In the last 20 years, I’ve implemented countless systems, ranging from full ERP implementations to specialist software implementations such as transportation management.
