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“Nailed it.” A lesson in overcoming project complexity

Deming Institute

When your project shows signs of trouble, go basic first. Having been a consultant/leader with a Big 4 firm, my project experience is extensive and varied. Project work sometimes got complicated, and we’d have to resort to heroic measures to finish. Sometimes people got burned out, but we delivered. So, that’s what I did.

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How the Big Data Explosion Has Changed Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not. The RACI framework offers an excellent real-world instantiation of Jensen’s decision rights approach: Responsible.

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