Managing projects is fundamentally different to managing business-as-usual operations. They differ in four important ways.
Do you challenge enough? Are you thinking deeply or just accepting what you are told? We are taught NOT to think, we need to jettison this.
Is the speed of change being overstated? We review the fast-moving technology world to find out that the speed of change is...not as fast as thought.
We need to challenge project delivery methods, standards and orthodoxy if we are to improve. We need to become the 'unreasonable man'
Generating ideas is easy, but turning them into reality is innovation and requires attributes that most organizations don't have.
Your organization's beliefs are often invisible but control the results sought and attained. To improve you need to make them visible
TOP's international recognition by Gartner as a 2011 Cool Vendor
Most projects miss, lose or destroy more value than they deliver due to ignoring the 8 self-evident truths that dispel the all too common myths.
TOPics
- Benefits Management (29)
- Business Case (24)
- Business Simplification (5)
- Capability Development (38)
- Capital Investment (24)
- Change Management (17)
- Consultants (1)
- Costs and Waste (16)
- Engineered Thinking/Ideas/Innovation (8)
- Fifteen Critical Insights (15)
- Idea / Project Initiation (3)
- Mental Models, Beliefs and Myths (18)
- Outcomes Thinking (10)
- Path Dependency (10)
- Prioritization (13)
- Process Management (11)
- Productivity Improvement (7)
- Program / Project delivery (40)
- Project Controls (52)
- Project Governance (90)
- Project Management (4)
- Project Success (46)
- Project Validation (2)
- Risk Management (5)
- Scope Management (5)
- Standards/Frameworks/Methods (14)
- Strategic Project Portfolio Management (16)
- Strategy Execution (40)
- The TOP Four Lenses (1)
- TOP compared to orthodox approaches (7)
- Value Delivery (83)
- Value Equation (60)