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Tag Archives: Efficiency
PowerSearch: A New Way To Pay For Ediscovery
I don’t know about you, but I’m still sifting through all the information I collected during Legal Tech in February. Changes in ediscovery, Google’s release of their new Vault product, and Amazon’s ongoing reduction in the cost of storage and … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Common Sense Contracting, Decision Making, Unique Ideas
Tagged Document Review, ediscovery, Efficiency, LPO, Pricing
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PMO Basics: Six Secrets For Efficient Shared Services
Every big corporation manages multiple shared services. Shared services are often a bit mysterious to a PMO, and improvement projects are sometimes overly complex. It is difficult enough to provide a service that can keep a single client happy, a … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Delivering Services, Project Management Office
Tagged Efficiency, Improve, Measure, PMO, Project Management, Satisfaction, Staffing
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PMO Genius: Massive Savings Hidden In Documents
Today’s best solution often cause tomorrow’s biggest problem. Consider the baby diaper, the humble nappy. Pampers, the first practical disposable diaper, was introduced in 1961. Like any new product it was a less than perfect solution. They used wood pulp … Continue reading
PMO Genius: Developing A TAR Pilot Project
Project managers are taught that the most expensive method of resolving a dispute is litigation. Yet the number of corporate lawsuits keeps rising, as does the number of documents in each lawsuit. If you’ve never worked with a legal review … Continue reading
PMO Genius: How To Smartsource Outsourcing Programs
In the last blog, we discussed the limits of cost based outsourcing: after initial savings three is little or nothing left for the next contract, “fractures” in processes develop between the client and the vendor that damage productivity and a … Continue reading
PMO Basics: The Downward Spiral Of Cost Based Outsourcing
Business is changing. Look at the number of books published about the economy’s move from atoms to electrons. Don Tapscott’s wrote an excellent example, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.” The title says it all. The Internet has connected everything … Continue reading
PMO Genius: Time To Open The “Office of Email”
Not too long ago we looked at Atos, an $11 Billion IT firm that decided to kill email. They did considerable internal research and concluded that rather than contributing to profitability, email is a massive drain on profitability and needs … Continue reading
PMO Genius: Increasing The Maturity Of Your PMO
PMO projects fail. A lot. Why? Basically, it comes down to someone not delivering what they said they would. That individual may not think I was his fault. He might have recommend a firm to provide a product or service, … Continue reading
Genius PMO: Let’s Kill Email! Lessons From A Leading Technology Firm…
In case you haven’t heard the big news yet, Atos (a multi-Billion dollar IT firm) announced that it plans the global elimination of email from all of its offices. Now that’s a big, bold move! A move that is going … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Delivering Services, Project Management Office, Unique Ideas
Tagged Efficiency, email, Metrics, PMO, Project Management, Projects, Quantify
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Genius PMO: How To Manage Like Gordon Ramsay In 10 Steps, Part II
Today we continue with our Foodie guide to project management. In our last blog we looked at the work of media star Gordon Ramsay. Today he’s a foul mouthed, ill-tempered egomaniac… but that’s mostly for the ratings. 10 years ago … Continue reading
