An older post on what governance boards want is garnering some attention this month. In it is a great example of a CEO dealing with HIS upper management: the board. It turns out that they didn’t want his detail financial analysis until they saw how a proposed acquisition linked with corporate strategy. Projects must be linked to strategy or they shouldn’t be projects!
I’ve been doing a research project on how continual improvement programs are embraced and drive companies from the executive and cultural perspectives. Interestingly, the best practice that seems to be emerging is excellent project prioritization based on alignment with …read more

Here are the top viewed posts for projectmanagement411.com for May 2008. Interesting that the first two are much older (2-3 months) but continue to be top vote getters. Everything from innovation to PMO governance boards. The recent series on collaborative innovation seems to be sparking some great interest- very much a ground breaking “best of the best” practice! Check them out:
1. http://projectmanagement411.com/innovations-are-under-your-nose-go-and-see/
2. http://projectmanagement411.com/organizations-as-boxes-analogy-reveals-power-of-projects/
3. http://projectmanagement411.com/social-network-positioning-new-age-solutions-to-old-economy-problems/
4. http://projectmanagement411.com/heres-what-pmo-governance-boards-want/
5. http://projectmanagement411.com/a-softwares-history-gives-great-insights/
6. http://projectmanagement411.com/social-networking-strategy-more-important-than-being-green/
7. http://projectmanagement411.com/open-innovation-brings-companies-together-to-solve-problems/
8. http://projectmanagement411.com/how-to-protect-intellectual-property-in-collaborative-innovation
9. http://projectmanagement411.com/networking-an-important-step-in-collaborative-innovation/
10. http://projectmanagement411.com/a-key-to-collaborative-innovation-defining-the-problem-generically/
What’s the latest hot topic at your company? What are you doing about it? What are you doing to make your company’s strategies happen?
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