Why Projects are Designed to Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

Unlike reengineering, which focused on making established business models more efficient, reinvention focuses on improving the business models themselves by successfully balancing continuity, change, and organized abandonment. Reinvention involves implementing new initiatives that are successful, expanding existing capabilities that are already successful, improving areas that are struggling, and/or stopping practices and businesses that are unsuccessful….

IT Project Management 101: 3 Teams, 1 Successful Outcome

As a business manager, what do you do when your IT team tells you a strategically important project can’t get done because there are too many other business critical projects ahead of it? Do you arbitrarily prioritize your project ahead of the others? Do you know what those other projects were going to do for…