Your path to business agility
It has been three years since millennials — i.e. people born between the early 1980s and late 1990s — officially surpassed Generation X to comprise the biggest share of the U.S. labor market. And by 2019, millennials are expected to overtake the Boomers as the largest living adult generation. In light of this seismic demographic...
A growing number of enterprises are deploying a distributed workforce to reduce costs, expand reach and drive business agility. And that’s great news for employees, who overwhelmingly embrace remote working. A survey by FlexJobs found that: 97% of employees want the option to work at least partially away from the office. 79% of employees would...
It is no secret that most employees don’t just dislike excessive status meetings: they dread them. A Clarizen-Harris poll of more than 2,000 employees revealed that: 60 percent spend more time preparing for status meetings, than they do attending the actual meetings. 46 percent would rather do any other unpleasant activity vs. endure yet another...
When eager new project managers emerge onto the scene — or when experienced professionals in other disciplines have the mantle of project management thrust upon them — they generally expect to do a fair amount of writing. A fair amount, yes. But enough to comprise few novels a year? No. Yet that’s the norm on...
Although the science of project management has changed significantly over the last several decades, project managers still need a solid grasp of the fundamentals, such as planning, scheduling, budgeting, scope management, resource management, risk management and time management. These skills have been essential since long before Gannt Charts and Critical Paths were born. As the...
While it is obviously a last resort, there are times when it’s necessary to gracefully kill a project vs. allow it to continue its terrifying one way journey towards oblivion. However, well before that becomes a possibility, project managers need to pull out the jaws of life, grab a defibrillator, and administer some CPR —...
Brexit continues to be a source of bitter argument in the UK. Uncertainty about the future relationship with the European Union has created sharp divides, even within political parties and battle lines have been drawn across the country in one of the most polarizing events to happen to Britain since the original decision to join...
Though Britain is currently undergoing a boom, despite predictions about the economic instability and negative consequences of Brexit, the status of those employed is not necessarily as healthy as it may seem from the outside. With unemployment reaching levels not seen for more than a decade and many companies in fact facing huge problems finding...
Though they speak the same language and share many cultural links (think of the popularity of TV shows, movies and musical acts on both sides of the Atlantic), when it comes to doing business in the UK, it can often seem like you are dealing with another world. In the US, we have been primed...
Among the many issues which are now facing business in the UK in the wake of Brexit, it appears that fraud is becoming one of the most prominent. This fact was borne out as UK business fraud hit a 15-year peak, according to accountants BDO, with it costing the UK economy nearly $3 billion. These...
