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How Ajay Banga can “write a new playbook” and become the World Bank’s most consequential President

Christensen Institute

In fewer than five years, the World Bank has cycled through three Presidents. ” How might Ajay Banga write a new playbook for the World Bank? For example, in Banga’s memo to employees, he writes about one of the Bank’s arduous and inefficient processes for financing projects which can take up to three years.

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The Revolution is Here: Generative AI and Project Management

Planview

In its conventional sense, project management has been marked by rigorous methods and stringent controls. But in the wake of generative AI technology, we’re on the brink of a transformative change in how projects are managed. This post details a sampling of the technology transforming project management today and its advantages.

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Students need internships, but internships need disrupting

Christensen Institute

Others, like Parker Dewey, don’t validate students’ skills or learning and instead act as a marketplace where students and employers can find one another for short, gig projects across a wide array of industries. In other words, work-integrated learning opportunities (like everything else in education) shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all.

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Innovation dies at the handover

Idea to Value

Everything was done to set up the project for success. Problems were discovered, priorities changed, enthusiasm dissipated and slowly what was once seen as an exciting new innovation gathers dust in a list of zombie projects somewhere. But innovations fail at the handover points.

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The USAID’s Africa Localization Initiative may have unintended consequences

Christensen Institute

Managers must determine what new projects to pursue and which ones to ignore; salespeople must decide which customers to call and executives must decide which new initiatives to fund. This was the approach taken to funding aid projects in Taiwan and South Korea. Over time, an organization’s processes morph into its priorities.

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Celebrating Achievements: A Recap of Customers Honored at Planview Accelerate 2023

Planview

Endress + Hauser Sebastian Büchle, Expert Project & Portfolio Management Endress+Hauser is a global leader in industrial measurement instrumentation, services, and solutions for industrial process engineering. Now it has become a connected platform within Endress+Hauser for effective project portfolio management.

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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This is in stark contrast with the typical practice in technology development: learning is usually transferred across consecutive demonstration projects in different contexts to build confidence before widespread deployment commences. The acceleration that is needed also requires a large increase in investment in demonstration projects.

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