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Tag Archives: Quality
Jamie Dimon Needs A Good Project Manager!
A few blogs ago we talked about how undisclosed risk in any operation or project can completely change the game. What used to be the right choice may now the wrong one, when you don’t know the whole story. The … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Improvement, Continuous or Not, Project Management Office
Tagged Congress, Jamie Dimon, JPMC, PMO, Project Management, Quality, Risk
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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
Genius PMO: How To Manage Like Gordon Ramsay In 10 Steps, Part I
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
Genius PMO: Five Steps Turn Your PMO Into An Innovation Center!
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
Genius PMO: Make Every Project Manager A Genius (Part I)
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
Have You Mined-Out Your Project Portfolio?
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
Management Focus, Gemba And… Rats In The Attic
In our last Blog, we talked about a survey that showed that 46% of outsourcing buyers were satisfied with cost savings, 26% were satisfied with transformation efforts and just 11% were satisfied with meeting innovation goals. We went on to … 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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Everyone Bow Down: Quality Control Has Conquered America!
Just a few blogs ago I said that with the debt ceiling silliness in D.C. resolved, we might have clear sailing until the next crisis. Who knew that the credit downgrade crisis was just a few days away? Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, Decision Making
Tagged change, corporations, Metrics, Quality, Satisfaction, transform
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