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IT Governance: Definitions, Frameworks and Planning

ProjectManager.com

IT governance ensures that IT departments are prepared for what’s next, without losing focus on what matters. What is IT Governance? At its base level, IT governance is one or multiple processes that enable the IT staff to better manage risk and operate at its most efficient to the benefit of the organization on the whole.

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

After some tapping on their laptop, they proudly showed me their new corporate webpages, proclaiming their ‘strategy’, ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ statements. [1] All we need to do now is execute that strategy! Strategy is not hard to understand: Where is our chosen market? Executives must develop a clear strategy.

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Executing a Blue Ocean Strategy with Solid Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

The Blue Ocean strategy framework has become popular since around 2005, on the initial publication of “ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant “, by W. The Basics of Blue Ocean Strategy. Make execution part of the strategy.

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Business Model Canvas Explanation for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

It was originally proposed in 2005 by Alexander Osterwalder, who has earlier worked on an ontology for Business Models. Here goes: Customer Segment(s) – Project managers in any industry, any type of company, nonprofits, and government organizations; organizations who can gain value by better project management.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. Agile Software Development for Government Software Intensive System of Systems (SISoS) , Boulder Agile Meetup, 27 July 2016. Probabilistic Schedule and Cost Analysis , prepared for NNJ051R, NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle, 2005. Balanced Scorecard IT Strategy and Project Management. Governance.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Kadane, and Anthony O’Hagan, Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics & Data Science, January 5, 2005. Elsevier, 2005. 15 July 2005.

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Invested in Sustainability as a PM? You should be!

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Many executives embrace the conventional wisdom that mainstream investors care little about an organization’s performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. In 2005, the company respondedto Costa Rica’s looming water access crisis by investing in water-saving measures. Why should they? Look at that list.