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Top 6 Tips for Project Management Success

Strategy Driven

Whether you are managing a multi-million dollar project or overseeing tasks for a small startup, being a project manager can be a stressful and challenging role. Fortunately, by following a few tips and implementing a few best practices, you can manage your project to success. Embrace Your Role.

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Score More in 2024: 24 Innovative Leadership Goals for the New Year

Modern Servant Leader

Measurement: Percentage of successful projects applying Agile methods. Increase Innovation: Develop programs like hackathons, innovation days, and community support projects that help team members think outside of the box. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics: You cannot manage what you cannot measure. Check out Net Promoter Scores.

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5 Steps to Develop Team Goals

Skip Prichard

Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results. ” -Peter Drucker.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Can you recognize the early warning signals that derail a business process improvement project? Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. Let me discuss two factors: The Project Charter. Go back and do it.

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How to Lead with Speed

Skip Prichard

It’s a critical success factor in a competitive world. Alan Willett nailed it, in my view, as he outlines ways to help leaders accelerate projects in a way that is practical and actionable. It is one of the earlier “let’s go fast” projects I have read about. This project was pushed fast. It was well funded.

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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

Given organizational matrices, work complexities, and corporate politics, the transformation team relies heavily on leadership traits to secure support, overcome barriers, resolve escalated issues and manage risks across organizational divisions, functions, and levels.

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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. Visible senior management involvement.