sean f burns
Project & Program Management
Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads:
According to HBR, if you read nothing else read these 10 articles. They didn’t include the links, so I have done for you below. Happy reading! 1) “Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change,” by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf, explains why so few established companies innovate successfully. http://hbr.org/2000/03/meeting-the-challenge-of-disruptive-change/ar/1 2) “Competing on Analytics,” by Thomas … Continue reading
Public sector merger
I just finished a four-month engagement leading the consolidation of services (IT, IM, HR and Finance) for three agencies of the New Zealand government. A newspaper article on the transformation programme came out today decrying it as simply more public servant headcount reductions. The article completely missed the significance and strategic importance of this programme … Continue reading
Transformation & the 3-Box Approach
There’s a new article in the Harvard Business Review on organizational transformation titled ‘Transforming Your Organization with the Three-Box Approach‘ by Govindarajan and Goldner. The article is based on Vijay Govindarajan’s and Chris Trimble’s article, ‘The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention‘, which appeared in the January-February 2011 issue. What is the three-box approach and … Continue reading
Project Portfolio Management Basics
What Is Project Portfolio Management (PPM)? Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a management process designed to help an organization acquire and view information about all of its projects, then sort and prioritize each project according to certain criteria, such as strategic value, impact on resources, cost, and so on. The objectives of PPM are similar … Continue reading
What is Program Management?
The basic building blocks of program management have been around for a long time. Over this time, the practice and various methodologies have evolved, significantly over the past fifty years. To start with a common understanding, let’s look at an accepted definition of project management: Project management is the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of company resources… … Continue reading
