Content about Project management

January 26, 2012
Conference Highlight: CSI: Project Management

Organizational forensics reveals six reasons project management fails.

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Lou Russell outlines the top six reasons she has seen project management suffer.

January 13, 2012
Trending: Risk Management and Bungee Jumping in Africa

Which is safer: bungee jumping over crocodile-infested waters, or business as usual? As it turns out, the numbers are against you.

 

 

August 19, 2011
Tell Me Where It Hurts… Prescription for an Effective Incentive

Achieving goals and producing results is possible through incentives, and it doesn’t have to hurt. In fact, it’s a proven remedy. Companies that invest in an effective incentive program use it as a business tool to achieve uncommon goals—good preventive medicine.

By Debbie Szafran, Business Development Manager, Sutton & Associates

“Tell me where it hurts.” Sound familiar? This is usually the first question we hear from the doctor when we are not feeling well. In order for the doctor to determine the cause, we must answer some questions so the best treatment can be prescribed.

August 12, 2011
6 Best Practices to Achieve Implementation Success

Having a project assurance methodology gives you the power to go beyond traditional project management barriers and gives you the answers you need to assure project success. It helps you to identify and resolve the strategic, tactical and intangible issues—and manage the human factors—before issues become insurmountable. And best of all, project assurance gives you (and everyone else involved) peace of mind that the project is on the right track.

By Rob Prinzo, Founder and CEO, The Prinzo Group

August 4, 2011
Project Management: 4 Problems to Avoid

It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. There are four main problems in project management. Each of them can be avoided by taking the time to think carefully before embarking on a new project and then to plan it visually.

By Brian Tracy, President, Brian Tracy International

It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. Remember the words of Napoleon, when he was asked if he believed in luck. He said, “Yes, I believe in luck. I believe in bad luck. And I believe I will always have it, so I plan accordingly.”

There are four main problems in project management. Each of them can be avoided by taking the time to think carefully before embarking on a new project.

July 25, 2011
Training Today: Products and Services (July-August 2011)

The latest products and services launching in the training industry.

>> Pharmaceutical Institute, a provider of specialized training solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry and a subsidiary of Campbell Alliance, released its new Managed Markets Excellence Account Management Suite of e-courses. The suite is designed to improve the effectiveness of managed care account managers by addressing high-priority topics that drive success in today’s payer-dominated marketplace.

June 29, 2011
SMART Goals: Bad Idea

By now, almost everyone who works for an organization is familiar with the hackneyed SMART acronym for setting goals: Goals must be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound. But teaching SMART goals is a bad idea that needs to be stomped out. Why? For one thing, managers aren’t told where they should look for goals, or how to determine whether their goals are appropriate and genuinely important, or how to make sure there’s some congruity between the goals individuals set and the organization’s business strategy.

By Dick Grote, President, Grote Consulting Corporation