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Pulling The Plug
1.
Pulling the Plug
Stephen Hedges Laura Solomon Executive Director Library Services Manager [email_address] [email_address] OPLIN http://www.oplin.org
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SHAME
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4.
How do you
recognize failure?
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Failures? Or not?
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Project management triangle
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9.
Looking at project
planning in finer detail
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Check your toolbox
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Can you
really compete?
17.
Check your timing
18.
Budget—think ahead
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Who’s with you?
20.
Will you blame
PR later?
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What’s the ROI?
22.
23.
Causes of IT
Failures
24.
Missing pieces
25.
Lack of user
involvement
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Lack of knowledgeable
resources
27.
Inappropriate tools and
methods
28.
Unrealistic expectations
29.
Lack of executive
support
30.
Lack of planning
31.
Poor quality control
32.
33.
Check for "failure"
behaviors
34.
35.
What can we
learn from sales people?
36.
When is it
time to pull the plug ?
37.
38.
Not every project
can succeed
39.
Be decisive
40.
Don’t send mixed
signals
41.
Apply what you
learned
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44.
STRETCH!