Project Management
Does Data Have a Shelf Life?
When is the right time to refresh data to support organizational decision-making?
Project Management
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Developing Strategy
How to Change an Organization Without Blowing It Up
Mining the middle ground between wholesale change and pilot projects can improve your organization.
Karen Golden-Biddle
Project Management
Inside the World of the Project Baron
New research offers insights into the leadership — and politics — that typify project-based firms.
David Gann, Ammon Salter, Mark Dodgson and Nelson Phillips
IT Governance & Leadership
The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects
It takes a special breed of project manager to execute business analytics projects.
Stijn Viaene and Annabel Van den Bunder
Project Management
The Project Leader’s Branding Tool Kit (5 Point Chart)
Charts explain how to brand a project to internal audiences to get it funded and create engagement.
Marketing Strategy
Why Every Project Needs a Brand (and How to Create One)
Project leaders should frame projects the same way marketing managers frame branding efforts.
Karen A. Brown, Richard Ettenson and Nancy Lea Hyer
Collaboration
Why Project Networks Beat Project Teams
Project networks provide the expertise to handle complex, knowledge-intensive team projects.
Jonathon Cummings and Carol Pletcher
Project Management
What Great Projects Have in Common
From time to time a project truly stands out, creating exceptional value and having an impact on the industry.
Dov Dvir and Aaron J. Shenhar
Project Management
Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development
Outsourcing complex product development work subjects companies to significant uncertainty.
Jason Amaral, Edward G. Anderson Jr. and Geoffrey G. Parker
Executing Strategy
Best Practices for Industry-University Collaboration
To extract the most business value from university research, companies need to follow seven rules.
Julio A. Pertuzé, Edward S. Calder, Edward M. Greitzer and William A. Lucas
Project Management
6 Steps to (Re)Building a Top Management Team
Stephen A. Miles and Nathan Bennett
Project Management
The Downside of Real-Time Data
Receiving information more frequently isn’t always helpful.
Larry Yu
Innovation Strategy
Implementing a Learning Plan to Counter Project Uncertainty
Project managers need a systematic, disciplined framework for turning uncertainty into useful learning.
Mark P. Rice, Gina Colarelli O’Connor and Ronald Pierantozzi
Organizational Behavior
How Project Leaders Can Overcome the Crisis of Silence
Five conversations — often avoided — are essential to the success of any high stakes project.
Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield and Andrew Shimberg
Marketing Strategy
The Art of Managing New Product Transitions
Feryal Erhun, Paulo Gonçalves and Jay Hopman
Project Management
Managing Project Uncertainty: From Variation to Chaos
Project managers can’t predict the future, but accurately gauging the degree of uncertainty inherent in their projects can help them quickly adapt to it.
Arnoud De Meyer, Christoph H. Loch and Michael T. Pich
Project Management
Cutting Your Losses: Extricating Your Organization When a Big Project Goes Awry
Executives can become so wedded to a project, technology or process that they continue with it even when it’s seriously course.
Mark Keil and Ramiro Montealegre
Project Management
Toyota’s Principles of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
How Toyota’s product design and development process helps find the best solutions and develop successful products.
Durward K. Sobek II, Allen C. Ward and Jeffrey K. Liker
Collaboration
The Generative Cycle: Linking Knowledge and Relationships
The flat structures, service-oriented workforce, and participative decision processes of professional service firms are a model for larger organizations.