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Strategic PM and the Kurt Lewin Change Management Model

The Strategic Project Manager

Kurt Lewin’s Change Management Model is known for its simplicity. It breaks an organizational change process down into three basic steps. What Is the Kurt Lewin Change Management Model? Lewin was considered to be a pioneer in the field of change management.

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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

We’ve taken many different and evolving approaches to driving lean into our processes. Our team leans into this philosophy, strives to innovate, and reduce waste, while delivering more value to business partners of the PMO team. At Caterpillar, we’ve been on a continuous improvement journey in the PMO for more than ten years.

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Management Basics: The 5 Principles of the Kaizen Philosophy

Inloox

Process orientation Kaizen breaks with traditional results-oriented management. This applies to core processes such as production or logistics, but also to supporting processes such as human resources. Process Optimization in Project Management (2): The 5S-Framework. This philosophy focuses on processes.

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Kickstart Your Project for Success: A Blueprint for Maximizing Your Kick-Off Meetings

International Institute for Learning

Finalizing your meeting logistics. Finalize Your Meeting Logistics. Planning your kick-off meeting well enough in advance provides you with flexibility when designing your meeting logistics. She brings her wealth of knowledge and expertise from her PMP and Lean designations, and years of leading complex, strategic projects.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

ProjectManager.com

The process is designed to increase project efficiency and minimize scope creep by controlling every change and ensuring that changes are made according to set requirements for approving change. Change management The method for managing project change requests and application of the change control process as defined above.

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Marigrace passed PMP in 12 weeks part-time study, passed 1st time.

ExamsPM

I wanted to earn PMP certification to formalize and frame my years of managing projects in enterprise transformations, OpEx, and PMOs.The PMP standard blends well with my other professional methodologies in organization development, change management, training curriculum design/development, Lean, and 6Sigma/SPC.

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22 Manufacturing Conferences to Attend in 2018

Appfluence

The ManuChem Strategies conference brings together over 150 production, SCM, & engineering leaders who are responsible for process optimization, lean manufacturing, and business strategy in their companies. Lean Manufacturing. A Lean Transformation That Never Stops Improving: The O.C. Location: Berlin, Germany. Tanner Way.