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5 tips to improve employee attitudes about change management
These five tips can help make change easier for your employees. View Moira Alexander’s article as it’s published on Source link
Scrum meetings: The do's and don'ts
Scrum meetings are fast-paced and cover a lot of time-sensitive tasks. Here is how to run productive scrum meetings. View Moira Alexander’s article as it’s published on Source link
4 ways to protect your business from procurement risks
While it's virtually impossible to foresee and protect your business from all procurement-related dangers, you can reduce potential risks. View Moira Alexander’s article as it’s published on Source link
Starting off right: Why effective project management is crucial for SMBs
[ad_1] Project management products aren’t just for big business. With increasing competition and the always-changing digital landscape, it’s important for small businesses (SMB) to take the grunt work out of critical business processes. IDC’s Top 10 Predictions for Worldwide SMB IDC goes on to say that in 2017 small business IT spending will top $20 billion, with both traditional 2nd Platform (PC, server, network) and 3rd Platform (social, mobile, cloud, big data) spending continuing to [...]
Goal-based project management: Steps to meeting delivery dates and budgets
Project managers who follow these seven high-level project management tips will achieve on-time, on-budget, goal-focused delivery of high-profile projects, thereby increasing their project success rates and career prospects. According to Project Management Institute’s 2017 “Pulse of the Profession” global survey, organizations are wasting $97 million for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. Yes, that’s a 20 percent decline from the previous year’s survey, but the truth is, projects still fail at a staggering [...]
4 Tools to Help Transform Your Business Into a Digital Workplace
PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK If your business is considering migrating to a digital workplace model, having the right productivity and collaboration tools can make all the difference in making the transition a smooth one. It can certainly increase the chances of being successful in the mid to long-term. Productivity, collaboration, communication, customer relationship management, and customer support are essential functions for almost every business, and making the switch to a digital workplace with as little disruption to [...]
Steps You Can Take to Create a Winning Culture
PHOTO: RAWPIXEL A winning culture is still too often seen as a ‘nice-to-have’ corporate asset, yet in its 2016 Global Human Capital Trends report, 86 percent of survey participants told Deloitte culture was an important or very important issue. The report also found: “After three years of struggling to drive employee engagement and retention, improve leadership, and build a meaningful culture, executives see a need to redesign the organization itself, with 92 percent of survey participants rating this [...]
Why Employee Satisfaction Should be a Top Priority
PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK If you ask employers about their top priorities for the future, many might be apt to say technology adoption rates, streamlining processes, customer satisfaction. Yet, employee satisfaction directly impacts business performance, including the bottom line. Here are only a few reasons why employee satisfaction should be a top priority. And while these aren't the only reasons, they are significant. View Moira Alexander’s article as it's published on source link
5 Strategies to Manage Change In a Digital Workplace
PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK While the digital workplace is here to stay, change continues all around us. The changes companies must manage and adapt to in a digital workplace are impacted by many internal and external factors including technology, budgets, business model, politics, location, processes, leadership, legal and tax barriers. In their 2017 digital workplace trends study, the Digital Workplace Group (DWG) describes seven dimensions of which companies should take note when trying to determine where they fit as [...]
Project managers should focus on these 7 strategic goals
[ad_1] Project managers must look beyond requirements, budgets, and timelines to ensure they are executing high-impact, high-visibility projects with a direct line to the organization’s overall strategic goals. Here’s how to be recognized by executives and stakeholders as an indispensable strategic partner. You may think the chief responsibility of a project manager is to deliver projects on time and on budget, but you’d be wrong. As a high-level strategic body, project management professionals first and [...]
5 Tips for keeping your project budget on target
[ad_1] Budget overruns are a project manager’s nightmare. These project budget management strategies will keep your project budget under control — and your stakeholders happy. Budget overruns are a litmus test for project success or failure. Few companies have an unlimited budget, so the first thing project stakeholders look to in determining whether their project was a great success or a colossal failure is the bottom line. This fact fuels the pressure project leaders, and [...]
6 qualities that make a project manager more effective
[ad_1] To be a truly great project manager, you must be a strategic business partner fully vested in organizational success — and be able to roll with inevitable setbacks. Here’s how to stand out from the crowd. Every project manager knows how to execute projects on time and on budget. And good project managers also take pains to consistently meet project requirements. But truly great project leaders go above and beyond. Not only do they [...]
How Service Industries Can Develop a Sustainable Competitive Advantage
What gives your company its competitive advantage? Here are some of the considerations and risk factors companies like yours need to weigh to establish a sustainable competitive advantage. […]
Tips for selecting the right project management methodology
Choosing the right project management methodology for the job is essential. Our guide to evaluating project management methodologies will ensure you pick the perfect fit for your next project. Choosing the right project management methodology for your team is the first step to success. But with so many different — and in some cases, overlapping — approaches to managing the complexities of any given project, how can you know which project management methodology is [...]
Customer Loyalty 101: The Do’s & Don’ts
Customer loyalty can seem elusive at times, going from fleeting to in abundance. There are multiple factors that impact a customer’s decision to remain loyal, especially within the services industry. Here are just a few of these factors and ways to improve customer loyalty. […]
7 exceptional project management apps
[ad_1] For teams on the go, there’s nothing like a top-notch project management tool to keep everyone productive. If your company is in the market for a project management solution, these mobile project management apps are your top contenders. Project managers’ impressive capabilities can be significantly bolstered with top-notch project management tools. Within today’s realm of project management responsibilities and demands, mobility is no longer a “nice-to-have” option — it’s a necessity. With that in mind, [...]
The 6-Step Guide to Customer-Centric Project Management
Project management has never been more complex. The pace of work today, an increasingly competitive environment, growing demands from clients, and downward pressure on project margins, has made it significantly more challenging to deliver project-based work efficiently and profitably. […]
60 Quotes to Inspire Collaboration in the New Year
Many startups have been transformed into some of the most impressive and admired brandstoday due tohard-working and cohesive teams. Seldom has anything of greatness been the result of a solo effort. […]
Connecting your projects to company-wide strategy
[ad_1] Making the connection between your business strategy and project management isn’t easy, but it is necessary if projects are going to serve a purpose and meet inherent business needs. Here are some things you can do to make the connection. To align business goals with project management (PM), leaders from the enterprise project management office (EMPO) or project management office (PMO) need to be involved in strategic planning sessions alongside senior-level management. The foundation [...]
6 free project management tools filled with features
[ad_1] Whether you own a small business or you’re just starting one, every dollar counts; finding free software to help you manage, communicate, collaborate and keep projects progressing smoothly isn't easy. We have taken some of the guesswork out of it by sharing a list of 6 (alphabetically sorted) open source project management tools that can help make lighter work of managing your projects, reduce manual workarounds and give you a chance to start off [...]