Your path to business agility
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished,” Ben Franklin once said. The founding father probably understood that change, while difficult, is vital to innovation. But all too often organizations embrace the warm blanket of inertia. What if we could instill change in the workplace as a daily routine? Like brushing your teeth? The trick is building...
Innovation can feel easy when the global economy is running at maximum strength. Investment pours in. Risks come with a promise of a soft landing if they don’t succeed. But with uncertainty about a worldwide pullback—from China to Brexit to Apple’s revenue—managers might find themselves confronting new challenges. Some see the slowdown as a natural...
The huge consequences for Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union are becoming more apparent and worrying as time passes. Brexit, as Britain’s withdrawal from the EU is known, will quite likely have very extreme effects on the everyday lives of all British citizens. This will be especially true in a situation where...
In part one of this blog we discussed how over the past few years, basketball and executive teams have seen major changes in management styles and an emphasis on versatility. Following the digital revolution, a major shift to real-time analytics and fierce, swift competition modernized the old models. Today’s game, in both business and basketball,...
TechTarget defines business agility as “a concept whereby organizations seek to approach their operations and resources in a flexible, responsive manner.” Yet, many executives and employees who have experienced the imposition — rather than the implementation — of a business agility approach in their enterprise have another, less inspiring definition: chaos, chaos, and more chaos....
All companies and projects are driven by specific goals and objectives. These can be long or short term and can be based on achieving tangible, physical results or more abstract outcomes. Despite the fact that they are so similar as to often be used interchangeably, there are actually significant differences between goals and objectives and...
A modern project team will often contain team members with a range of different skills and competencies. This can naturally lead to problems for project managers who want to perform a balanced performance assessment that will judge every team member fairly. Knowing how to assess performance isn’t very easy when all the important metrics come...
Collaboration, when done right, can be rocket fuel for an organization. Whether it’s through a solution like Planview AdaptiveWork or a white board with sticky notes (ideally both!), teamwork can help us understand what we know and how we know it. In theory, collective minds produce better ideas. Yet our own experience might tell us...
As the end of a project nears feelings can be mixed, often lying somewhere between joy at a job well done or relief that it will finally be over. What often gets missed out on however, at the stage when final deliverables are being handed over or an end date is approaching, is what is...
