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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The Kanban methodology helps reduce inefficiencies, and is a great project management tool for many purposes such as lean manufacturing or agile projects. The car company applied it to their lean manufacturing model, known as the Toyota production system. Lean Methodology. Processes can be defined and improved.

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10 Top Process Improvement Tools You Need to Create a More Sustainable Business

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A study by BCG/MIT finds that 90% of executives deem sustainability to be important, yet only 60% of companies incorporate sustainability as part of their business strategy, and even less (25%) integrate sustainability into the core of their business model. Implement effective process improvement techniques for sustainability.

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A Lean Innovation Management Process: Discovering and Creating Value

The Strategic Project Manager

This applies regardless of the type of organization – small, medium, or large company; startup; government entity; or non-profit. Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. Project Governance It oversees project governance, ensuring that each aligns with the strategic goals. What is a Project Management Office?

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Scaling Agile Practices – Improve Business Outcomes: Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

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Customer-centric governments and non-profits create resilience, sustainability, and the alignment needed to fulfill their mission. Sustainable – Are we proactively managing our solution to account for its expected product-market lifecycle? SAFe® Lean Portfolio. Top 5 Scaling Agile Practice that Improve Business.

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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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5 Kaizen Principles That Underpin the Methodology

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But is there a unifying theory of improvement, and if so, can it be sustained? Since then, the implications have reached beyond industry and the kaizen principles have been used to help in healthcare, psychotherapy, government, banking and even life coaching. Kaizen, like a lean or agile approach, works with iterations.