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Genius PMO: Let’s Kill Email! Lessons From A Leading Technology Firm…

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

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 →

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Genius PMO: How To Manage Like Gordon Ramsay In 10 Steps, Part II

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

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 →

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Genius PMO: How To Manage Like Gordon Ramsay In 10 Steps, Part I

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

I’m a foodie. Food fascinates me, in many different ways. It’s not just eating food, it’s discovering new types of foods, learning about the history of different dishes and of course, finding new restaurants. It’s hard to be part of … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Five Steps Turn Your PMO Into An Innovation Center!

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

I often quote TED talks in my Blogs, and today is no exception. Steve Johnson gives a great talk about where great ideas come from.  Johnson links the explosion of ideas that defines modern culture to the creation of the … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Five Steps to An Honest Project Team!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

Every profession has unspoken agreements and dark little secrets. In the world of project management and PMO’s our objective is to make projects more “transparent” and measurable, so that projects can be more successful. You might say that one of … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Tracking A Project’s Financial Benefit Is Pure Genius

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

At the Wednesday (11/30) meeting of the  NYC chapter of the Project Management Institute, Marc Resch gave a compelling presentation on the importance of cash flow models.  In a very short time, Mr. Resch covered a lot of important territory. … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Make Every Project Manager A Genius (Part II)

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

In our last blog we talked about developing genius solutions to problems, by using the TRIZ method.  TRIZ is an acronym in Russian. In English, it translates into Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. This was developed by a Russian engineer, … Continue reading →

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Genius PMO: Make Every Project Manager A Genius (Part I)

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

If your Project Management Office (PMO) was staffed only by geniuses, you might get more work done. In the real world, we work with a staff that has limitations… limits on what they know, how much they can figure out … Continue reading →

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Supercharging PMOs With Networking & Technology

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

In  our last Blog we talked about the challenges facing project management and performance improvement programs: projects running over-budget  and behind schedule, projects that never reach completion, growing your group and maintaining high quality and high payback results. We also … Continue reading →

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Have You Mined-Out Your Project Portfolio?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Chris Niccolls

More than ever before, corporations are focused on project management and performance improvement techniques to fix long-standing inefficiencies in operations. The problem is that as these methodologies expand throughout major corporations, executives are finding that Project Management Offices (PMOs) and … Continue reading →

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