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Why Most Change Efforts Fail and 7 Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Chances are you will initiate a change that affects your whole team or start a major team project in the near future. A 2008 study by IBM found that over 60 percent of change efforts do not fully meet their objectives, and a 2013 Towers Watson study revealed only 25% are sustained over time.

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Risk Management Best Practice 5a – Monitoring for Organization-Wide Performance Risk Associated with Large Capital Projects

Strategy Driven

Large capital projects represent a significant investment on the part of an organization and can therefore impact, either positively or negatively, the company’s financial position, if not its viability. The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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Raising Capital Through Crowdfunding

Women on Business

Kickstarter lets you see featured projects in your area so you can connect with local companies or those across the world. Some of their current projects include “The Best Asthma App” and “Travel Grants for Patients”. Look for any regulatory changes to be announced in 2013.

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Risk Management Warning Flag 1 – Unadjusted Resourcing of Risk Monitoring Activities

Strategy Driven

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. This project risk may by itself exceed the normal level of organizational risk leaders are accustomed to dealing with. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Ajay Kaul, managing partner at AgreeYa Solutions , brings over 25 years of experience in sales, staffing, and IT project management for clients throughout the world. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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What’s the Endgame for Social Media?

Harvard Business Review

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. So perhaps it was inevitable that, in 2014, Kickstarter quietly softened its guidelines. As they lower their safeguards to attract more users, platishers enter a legal and ethical gray area.