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VRIO Framework Analysis For The Strategic Project Manager

The Strategic Project Manager

When other firms possess similar resources or capabilities, a firm cannot achieve a sustained competitive advantage. It helps to identify areas where they have a sustainable competitive advantage. Unique location or access to resources – This can confer a rarity that is advantageous.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Karen Chovan

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Today I’m interviewing Karen Chovan, MASc, PEng, PMP, who has dedicated her career to helping others deliver clean, lean and green approaches to project and programme management. However, in the fields related to sustainability, environment and earth-geosciences, safety, health and community engagement, there are quite a few women.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated.

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The Truth About Transformations

Leading Answers

It is no longer enough to launch “initiatives,” “programs” or “projects” to undertake work. They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes…. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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The Truth About Transformations

Leading Answers

It is no longer enough to launch “initiatives,” “programs” or “projects” to undertake work. They aim to instil lean concepts of respect for people, minimization of waste, and value delivery. Handoffs are very wasteful—they contribute to the eight lean DOWNTIME wastes…. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Guest Post: Dhaval Panchal on Satir Change Model

Stepping Into Project Management

Organizations ask for thorough cost-benefit analysis or business case to justify change initiative. After attending an agile conference, team-members acknowledge importance of cross-functional work and demand full management support before they are willing to try pair programming.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. So, also about the time that you and I met you were doing some work with PMI and the OPM three initiative? – Okay, cool. – Yeah, that’s right. – Yeah. – Right? – Yeah.

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