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PMO Genius: Rule The Bizarro World!
When you manage projects, a big part of your effectiveness is derived from common knowledge and a database, not necessarily a formal database, of what works and what doesn’t. In the last decade, everyone in a corporation “knows” certain basic … Continue reading
Google Changes The Ediscovery Landscape
The big new app for 2012 just might be Google’s Apps Vault. Just released in the last days of Q1, this tool sits on top of Google Apps and simplify management of your firm’s documents. This tool will be enormously … Continue reading
Posted in Common Sense Contracting, Decision Making, Delivering Services, Unique Ideas
Tagged ediscovery, Improve, legal, outsource, Projects, Reporting, transform
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PMO Genius: 8 Lessons Learned About Outsourcing
In our last “PMO Basics,” we covered the reasons and methods for building a lessons learned file. Today, we’re going to apply lessons learned to Outsourcing. Why single out outsourcing? There are several good reasons. First, the recent wave of … 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
Oracle Solaris 11: Is This The Ultimate Cloud Tool?
On November 9th, Oracle launched the new Solaris 11 enterprise operating system at Gotham Hall in New York. Whether or not you work for IT, Oracle’s new Solaris 11 just might change the way you work. We all know the … Continue reading
Monkey Traps, Career Development, And Your Next Budget
Have you ever seen a monkey trap? It’s a simple device, just a container with a narrow opening. Typically, it’s a gourd or a hole in a tree with an opening just big enough for a monkey to squeeze his hand into; inside of your … Continue reading
Solving The Government Budget Gap: The Strategic Software Initiative
The government’s budget problems are not going away any anytime soon. The problems facing the Federal government get the headlines, but the problems facing counties and towns are even more problems. While the Feds can print their own money, and … Continue reading
Are Costs Savings The Holy Grail Of Outsourcing?
Whether your goal is re-engineering or outsourcing, somewhere along the line you’ve run into the term Transformation. Your organization may have been exposed to the idea of transforming your organization from contact with a consulting firm or members of your … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Delivering Services, Improvement, Continuous or Not, Uncategorized
Tagged outsource, Projects, Quality, RFP, Satisfaction, Six Sigma, transform
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Are Cloud Services Really Outsourcing?
Technology is a tricky thing. It’s very, well, technical. Technology is not just complex, it also changes very rapidly. And of course, the names change as well. Today you see a lot of talk about “Cloud Services,” but the definition … Continue reading
