Project Management and the New Year, part 3
January 12, 2009 by Kim Beasley
Filed under Business
Have you ever decided on a project and found yourself distracted with other ideas that had nothing to do with your project? You are not alone, it is very easy to get distracted when you do not have a plan or scope for your project. It is best to determine what the scope of your project will be and not sway from it. That brings us to the second part of our acronym C.A.S.T. that was formulated to help you tackle all the projects for the New Year and keep you focused and in turn more efficient.
A – stands for …read more
Innovation: Product or Process?
Innovation. Seemingly a magical, creative art where ideas pop into the mind of relaxed and receiving brain cells (the hilarious “ideation” commercials come to mind where an incredulous manager says, “What are you doing?”, and the existential group leader responds, “Ideating”). Actually, there are NOT many NEW ideas and the “innovation” comes with successful market penetration, as it applies to new products, and with successful implementation, as it applies to new business processes. I tend to focus on innovative business processes.
Once more an innovation article failed to mention business process innovation. Times OnLine, a British publication, treated the subject with …read more




