Many organizations are looking for that magic tool or methodology that will suddenly transform them into outstanding organizations. Unfortunately, there is no one right answer for all organizations or even for a single organization. Successful organizations skillfully integrate the appropriate improvement approaches with honesty, commitment, and constancy of purpose across all levels of management.
This book, part of The Little Big Book series, discusses the most common set of tools and methodologies used in managerial, strategic planning, project selection, and organizational...
Many organizations are looking for that magic tool or methodology that will suddenly transform them into outstanding organizations. Unfortunately, ...
The best time to stop projects or programs that will not be successful is before they are ever started. Research has shown that the focused use of realistic business case analysis on proposed initiatives could enable your organization to reduce the amount of project waste and churn (rework) by up to 40 percent, potentially avoiding millions of dollars lost on projects, programs, and initiatives that would fail to produce the desired results. This book illustrates how to develop a strong business case which links investments to program results and, ultimately, with the strategic outcomes of...
The best time to stop projects or programs that will not be successful is before they are ever started. Research has shown that the focused use of ...
With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest improvement opportunities available today. This book highlights proven approaches designed to separate the successful projects from the potential losers before the projects are started. This represents huge savings in manpower, money, and time. The book shows you how to reduce project cycle time and apply resources effectively to maximize results and project success rates.
Effective Portfolio Management Systems provides a roadmap...
With an estimated 70 percent of new projects failing to add value to the organization, reducing project failure rate represents one of the biggest ...
As children, most of us were very creative. Yet, as we became more educated our creative powers generally gave way to relying upon something we have studied and been trained to do. Bringing out creativity in mature individuals can be accomplished but is a difficult because we are so well trained to follow the rules that other people developed in the past. Everyone can and should be creative. The book focuses on how to stimulate the creativity that lies within each of us.
As children, most of us were very creative. Yet, as we became more educated our creative powers generally gave way to relying upon something we hav...
This book is provides guidance to a project improvement team (PIT) on how to manage and assess an improvement initiative. It includes helpful tips on how to develop the detailed project plan and how to implement the project plan. It includes information on how to review the project from various perspectives to determine what was effective and what could be improved in future project efforts. It explains how to organize the project team as well as how to develop a project plan and work breakdown structure.
This book is provides guidance to a project improvement team (PIT) on how to manage and assess an improvement initiative. It includes helpful tips ...
Change Management: Manage Change or It Will Manage You represents a substantial core guidanceeffort for Change Management practitioners. Organizations currently contend with increasingly higher levels of knowledge-driven competition. Many attempt to meet the challenge by investing in expensive knowledge-driven change management systems. Such systems are useless, and sometimes even harmful, for making strategic decisions because they do not distinguish between what is strategically relevant and what is not.
This Management-for-Results Handbook focuses...
Change Management: Manage Change or It Will Manage You represents a substantial core guidanceeffort for Change Management ...
Lean TRIZ is a new workshop-based process that brings together teams to focus on specific processes, evolutionary product designs, and improvement opportunities. It combines the insight of TRIZ with the simplicity of Value Engineering, EXPRESS, or FAST methodologies. TRIZ is the most advanced problem solving tool available. By combining TRIZ's simplest concepts with those in the EXPRESS methodology (used by Ford and Ernst & Young), it is feasible to apply this new methodology to new concepts that are not traditionally applicable to the TRIZ methodology. This combination is guaranteed to...
Lean TRIZ is a new workshop-based process that brings together teams to focus on specific processes, evolutionary product designs, and improvement ...
