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Taking the Lead: A Comprehensive Approach to Virtual Team Project Management

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Virtual Team Project Management In today’s globalized business environment, virtual team project management has become an indispensable aspect of organizational success. The agility to respond quickly to market changes and customer needs.

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What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Traditional project management skills, such as project governance or project management methodology, aren’t sufficient to meet changing organizational needs.

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Project Managers Should Think Like Startup Founders

Harvard Business Review

Most project managers focus on planning and execution. But large projects rarely go in a straight line, and often that planning doesn’t take into account key assumptions, and the execution goes far in the wrong direction before the need for changes are recognized.

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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". But by then, it may be too late.

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The Trifecta of Innovative Project Portfolio Management

Business Innovation Brief Submitted Articles

When it comes to the trifecta of innovative Project Portfolio Management (PPM), PPM, Continuous Innovation and Agile come together to create a complete framework for innovation success. Project Portfolio Management – The Burger. This is where Agile comes in. Agile – The Soda.

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How Project Managers Can Say No — While Preserving Relationships

Harvard Business Review

Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. This often means saying “no” when stakeholders request additional features or changes.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How Agile Approaches Change Project, Program, and Product Measures

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Before agile approaches took the world by storm, we used Gantt charts and defects to measure project and program progress. We had trouble measuring product progress until just before release—often too late to change anything. We can measure the project’s and program’s progress with a variety of product burnup charts.

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Business Models Changing the Landscape of Growth and Innovation

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President, Innovationedge

She will lead you on a journey through business model basics and describe how companies are taking innovation strategy to the next level, while tackling the current challenges of talent management and innovation fatigue. January 28, 2020 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM GMT.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. It will be a guide towards a decentralized and management style that offers more successful decision making through collaboration.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.