What You’re Reading About: Innovation, Carbon Trading, PMOs, and Wow Factors
Thanks loyal readers! You have verified, and are therefore perpetuating, my desire to be eclectic in the pursuit of project management topics. Here are your top choices this month. Strange that the first one outpaces the others by a 3:1 margin- must have something to do with you having a nose for innovation. Check these out if you haven’t already- somebody out there likes these:
1. http://projectmanagement411.com/innovations-are-under-your-nose-go-and-see/
2. http://projectmanagement411.com/carbon-trading-as-global-warming-heats-up/
3. http://projectmanagement411.com/organizations-as-boxes-analogy-reveals-power-of-projects/
5. http://projectmanagement411.com/achieving-the-wow-factor-in-a-consulting-firm/
6. http://projectmanagement411.com/heres-what-pmo-governance-boards-want/
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I really like the innovations post. That is a great example of how it is possible to find what we are looking for.
Sometimes I think that if we just change our way of thinking, it is possible to find all sorts of opportunities to innovate, making the product management process much better.
I also really liked the WOW factor post…
Thanks for commenting Miranda. How we think and assumptions we make can severely limit our creative process. Do you have some examples of how you achieved a creative idea and did it through thinking differently?
Wow, am I bad at getting back to the comments. At any rate, I found that when I stopped looking at things in such a compartmentalized way, and started thinking about things in a more integrated way, I could see how things fit together.
For a long time (back when I first married), I thought of money as an issue all it’s own, and the problems my husband and I were having as it’s own issue. Then I stepped back and thought about how all of those things are integrated and related. When I started to talking to my husband about my money concerns, our marriage improved.
Sometimes what we think of as individual problems are really problems that are part of the big picture.
Miranda- fascinating that you applied these concepts to personal relationships. This shouldn’t surprise anyone as business is basically a series of relationship issues, but I think that we do tend to compartmentalize in our personal lives because we do it in business. Looking at things in an integrated way is something we, as sales teams selling software, tend to do as part of our sales cycles. We are always looking for what motivates people based on what they know and what they want to achieve. The money issue in marraige is real interesting- my wife and I had a breakthrough last year after 27 years of marraige about her understanding how money pressures affect me particularly when we aren’t saving enough. I really appreciate your comments!