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Last Post for PM411 For Awhile

One book CIO Insight missed, which has completely changed my thinking about the highest impact actions a company can take, is Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO by Gerald Kendall and Steven Rollins. My brief conversations with Mr. Kendall reveal him to be the real deal with excellent experiences and success. His use of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints as it applies to governance models and PMOs is groundbreaking and should be considered by every company, large and small. Gaining control of selecting, eliminating, and prioritizing projects along with aligning them with company strategies, using the approaches in the book, WILL make an impact no matter what kind of organization you belong to; this is evidenced by the numerous case studies from organizations as diverse as manufacturers and counties.

Much of my writings stem from seeds planted by that book- check out my Choosing the Right PMO Vision series. There you will see how to establish an approach and criteria for selecting a PMO vision that can change your company. Keep in mind that a PMO can be very small depending on the need. So, you smaller companies can also benefit from how to connect your strategies to the projects you do!

This is a MUST READ for all IT AND C-level executives.

Have you got a book that has changed your business life? How about your personal life? I just about recommended Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy because of it’s excellent, practical applications to business.

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What IT Pros (AND C-levels) Should be Reading

CIO Insight’s

“You won’t find FedEx’s innovation-driven culture at most companies. McKinsey’s research points to one obstacle to innovation: While a vast majority of corporate executives say innovation is one of their top three priorities for boosting growth, the lack of coherent governance practices tends to curtail their efforts.

When surveyed last fall about the ways in which their company oversees innovation practices, more executives (36 percent) pointed to an ad hoc approach than to any other. Still, 34 percent said governing innovation is part of their regular agenda, but only one in 10 said there’s a corporate innovation group or leadership team devoted to overseeing their practices.”

Why executives think that lack of management of innovation somehow fosters innovation is a mystery to me; it’s shocking that an executive would say that their company values innovation without a management structure to formally support it. The companies that succeed in the innovation area, like FedEx, have formal processes, organizations, and an innovation culture.

Do you think innovation is more of an art than a science? Should formal organization structures and processes be put in place to enable innovation? Do you have examples where innovation occurred without these types of formal structures?

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Innovation Needs a Formal Governance Structure