The first written document that defined the Project Age and how to create value through project-oriented processes, circa 2001. It includes the figure that position portfolio management as it was presented in the first edition of PMI «Standard for Portfolio Management» (2006), for which I was one of the co-authors as well as co-leader, with Beth Ouellette, for the team responsible to write the standard
What are Success factors of Silicon Valley companies? What defines a powerful innovation culture and what are possible roadblocks to innovation? What can we learn from the valley?
For further questions do not hesitate to directly contact the authors.
Projects are a means to executing and achieving strategy. But why do projects that are often rooted in strategy fail to achieve their strategic goal? Learn how the discipline of enterprise architecture can create a connection between the strategy and execution of projects. In this session you will learn real examples of:
- the connection between strategy and execution
- how to convert strategies and business vision into a set of business capabilities
- key skills needed to make this connection
- get real examples of how enterprise architecture is used in leading companies
Industry experts Munir Bhimani SCPM, of Microsoft and Gustav Toppenberg of Cisco discuss how progressive organizations are leveraging enterprise architecture concepts to identify business capabilities and realign projects to achieve business strategies.
Watch this webinar on YouTube: http://youtu.be/zpb3htHPB7o.
Presented By:
The Stanford Center for Professional Development in association with the Stanford Advanced Project Management certificate program.
http://apm.stanford.edu/
About IBC
The International Business Center (CIN) is a business support center for executives and companies in major partner countries operating or interested in entering the Mexican market. Each INC Desk provides support to the community in the country it represents, bringing together industry experts who know the dynamics of the Mexican market through best practices Business Advisory, Tax and Legal Services and Audit
WBCSD - Inclusive Business tools and resourcesfveglio
This document presents a "mapping" of key publicly-available tools and resources that support the initiation, development and scaling of inclusive business models. It is primarily aimed at practitioners but will also be of use to other actors in the inclusive business domain, including donors, investors, business associations and communities.
In this playbook, we outline the innovation challenge that leaders must overcome, and share our approach to embedding innovation into organisations. This includes an explanation of our Innovation Management Framework and a step-by-step guide to running a sprint that will quickly create a minimum viable innovation operating model. We based both these tools on our experience as heads of innovation and industry leaders, and honed them through our work with organisations around the world, from global financial institutions to market-leading drinks companies. Once on this transformative journey, leaders will instil an experimental culture across their organisations, something that’s necessary for achieving sustainable results. They’ll be able to respond to disruption in their industry, drive measurable returns from their innovation investments and become more efficient at responding to the needs of society and the environment.
What are Success factors of Silicon Valley companies? What defines a powerful innovation culture and what are possible roadblocks to innovation? What can we learn from the valley?
For further questions do not hesitate to directly contact the authors.
Projects are a means to executing and achieving strategy. But why do projects that are often rooted in strategy fail to achieve their strategic goal? Learn how the discipline of enterprise architecture can create a connection between the strategy and execution of projects. In this session you will learn real examples of:
- the connection between strategy and execution
- how to convert strategies and business vision into a set of business capabilities
- key skills needed to make this connection
- get real examples of how enterprise architecture is used in leading companies
Industry experts Munir Bhimani SCPM, of Microsoft and Gustav Toppenberg of Cisco discuss how progressive organizations are leveraging enterprise architecture concepts to identify business capabilities and realign projects to achieve business strategies.
Watch this webinar on YouTube: http://youtu.be/zpb3htHPB7o.
Presented By:
The Stanford Center for Professional Development in association with the Stanford Advanced Project Management certificate program.
http://apm.stanford.edu/
About IBC
The International Business Center (CIN) is a business support center for executives and companies in major partner countries operating or interested in entering the Mexican market. Each INC Desk provides support to the community in the country it represents, bringing together industry experts who know the dynamics of the Mexican market through best practices Business Advisory, Tax and Legal Services and Audit
WBCSD - Inclusive Business tools and resourcesfveglio
This document presents a "mapping" of key publicly-available tools and resources that support the initiation, development and scaling of inclusive business models. It is primarily aimed at practitioners but will also be of use to other actors in the inclusive business domain, including donors, investors, business associations and communities.
In this playbook, we outline the innovation challenge that leaders must overcome, and share our approach to embedding innovation into organisations. This includes an explanation of our Innovation Management Framework and a step-by-step guide to running a sprint that will quickly create a minimum viable innovation operating model. We based both these tools on our experience as heads of innovation and industry leaders, and honed them through our work with organisations around the world, from global financial institutions to market-leading drinks companies. Once on this transformative journey, leaders will instil an experimental culture across their organisations, something that’s necessary for achieving sustainable results. They’ll be able to respond to disruption in their industry, drive measurable returns from their innovation investments and become more efficient at responding to the needs of society and the environment.
Structured organizations today are not keeping pace with a changing world incessantly. The Business Triathlon (Lean Strategy/Start-up, Agile and Change Management) could be the solution.
Designing adaptive and nimble organizationsEmiliano Soldi
What does it mean to design agile and adaptive organizations?
What are rthe necessary organizational archetypes?
What about Value Streams and Lean Portfolio Management?
AGILE PM A trade-off between proactivity and reactivityEmiliano Soldi
An exponential increase in complexity, a strong reduction of a product's lifecycle and market time frames are drastically challenging projects and their success.
In a context like this, what tools and techniques can be used by project management?
A proactive approach would seem to be highly effective.
But, is trying to anticipate any decision of an unpredictable future the best solution?
Alternatively, a reactive approach puts less effort on planning and greater attention in tackling any change.
But, are we sure that we can be completely reliant on this way?
VidenDanmark holdt den 23. marts 2010 møde hos MillionBrains om åben innovation og videndeling. Sam Kondo Steffensen fra MillionBrains fortalte deltagerne fra VidenDanmark om baggrunden for MillionBrains-projektet - og om hvad idéen er med platformen. MillionBrains er rigtig åben innovation - man kan lægge Challenges ud - og alle kan melde sig ind som Brains. På sigt vil man nok være lidt kritiske ift. hvilke challenges, der kan lægges ud. MillionBrains bygger på en teknoligi - der arbejder semantisk - i stedet for søgeteknologi ønskes det modsatte - at informationen kommer til dig - på baggrund af opsamlede data.
June 15, 2010 discussion with the SI KM Leaders about the Knowledge Jam process - a facilitated, conversation-based process for getting out hidden knowledge and putting it to work. (This presentation is best seen in "build" using powerpoint.)
Digital strategies, digital agendas, digital business all are becoming the norm but how do you know if your organisation has taken all the right steps to leverage the digital technologies available. Here we look at the key dimensions to measure to get a picture of your digital maturity
VUCA + Future Value Generation @daniel_eggerDaniel Egger
VUCA (velocity, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) is part of our present business reality. The presentation explores how to connect the challenge of VUCA with a practical implementation using the Future Value Framework.
CHAPTER 2 Strategic Management and Project SelectionMore and m.docxcravennichole326
CHAPTER 2
Strategic Management and Project Selection
More and more, the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues, such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity,” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool as project management to help organizations achieve their goals and objectives is certainly awesome. In addition to project management’s great utility when correctly used, however, its utility has also led to many misapplications. As frequently noted by both consultants and industry project experts, there are many projects that:
• fall outside the organization’s stated mission,
• are completely unrelated to the strategy and goals of the organization, or
• have excessive funding levels relative to their expected benefits.
In addition to the growth in the number of organizations adopting project management, there is also accelerating growth in the number of multiple, simultaneous, and often interrelated projects in organizations. Thus, the issue naturally arises as to how one manages all these projects. Are they all really projects? (It has been suggested that perhaps up to 80 percent of all “projects” are not actually projects at all, since they do not include the three project requirements for scope, budget, and due date.) Should we be undertaking all of them? Among those we should implement, what should be their priorities?
It is not unusual these days for organizations to be wrestling with hundreds of new projects. With so many ongoing projects it becomes difficult for smaller projects to get adequate support, or even the attention of senior management. Three particularly common problems in organizations trying to manage multiple projects are:
1. Delays in one project cause delays in other projects because of common resource needs or technological dependencies.
2. The inefficient use of corporate resources results in peaks and valleys of resource utilization.
3. Bottlenecks in resource availability or lack of required technological inputs result in project delays that depend on those scarce resources or technology.
As might be expected, the report card on organizational success with management by projects is not stellar. For example, an early research study (Thomas et al., 2001) found that 30 percent of all projects were canceled midstream, and over half of completed projects were up to 190 percent over budget and 220 percent late. This same study found that the primary motivation of organizations to improve and expand their project management processes was due to major troubled or failed projects, new upcoming mega-projects, or to meet competition or maintain their market share. Those firms that “bought” project management skills from consultants tended to see it as a “commodity.” These fi ...
Sustainable project management a whole programme indeedHSBC Private Bank
paper about Sustainable PM: our world is changing. Organizations evolve in a moving socio-political context so they must understand the impact and influence of this context on their own performance and competitiveness. But organizations are also part of the global "system" and thus interact with their environment. These interactions require a real social and environmental responsibility. This responsibility leads companies to work in link with stakeholders and society, interact with each other, or influence them in a common respect...
Structured organizations today are not keeping pace with a changing world incessantly. The Business Triathlon (Lean Strategy/Start-up, Agile and Change Management) could be the solution.
Designing adaptive and nimble organizationsEmiliano Soldi
What does it mean to design agile and adaptive organizations?
What are rthe necessary organizational archetypes?
What about Value Streams and Lean Portfolio Management?
AGILE PM A trade-off between proactivity and reactivityEmiliano Soldi
An exponential increase in complexity, a strong reduction of a product's lifecycle and market time frames are drastically challenging projects and their success.
In a context like this, what tools and techniques can be used by project management?
A proactive approach would seem to be highly effective.
But, is trying to anticipate any decision of an unpredictable future the best solution?
Alternatively, a reactive approach puts less effort on planning and greater attention in tackling any change.
But, are we sure that we can be completely reliant on this way?
VidenDanmark holdt den 23. marts 2010 møde hos MillionBrains om åben innovation og videndeling. Sam Kondo Steffensen fra MillionBrains fortalte deltagerne fra VidenDanmark om baggrunden for MillionBrains-projektet - og om hvad idéen er med platformen. MillionBrains er rigtig åben innovation - man kan lægge Challenges ud - og alle kan melde sig ind som Brains. På sigt vil man nok være lidt kritiske ift. hvilke challenges, der kan lægges ud. MillionBrains bygger på en teknoligi - der arbejder semantisk - i stedet for søgeteknologi ønskes det modsatte - at informationen kommer til dig - på baggrund af opsamlede data.
June 15, 2010 discussion with the SI KM Leaders about the Knowledge Jam process - a facilitated, conversation-based process for getting out hidden knowledge and putting it to work. (This presentation is best seen in "build" using powerpoint.)
Digital strategies, digital agendas, digital business all are becoming the norm but how do you know if your organisation has taken all the right steps to leverage the digital technologies available. Here we look at the key dimensions to measure to get a picture of your digital maturity
VUCA + Future Value Generation @daniel_eggerDaniel Egger
VUCA (velocity, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) is part of our present business reality. The presentation explores how to connect the challenge of VUCA with a practical implementation using the Future Value Framework.
CHAPTER 2 Strategic Management and Project SelectionMore and m.docxcravennichole326
CHAPTER 2
Strategic Management and Project Selection
More and more, the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues, such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity,” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool as project management to help organizations achieve their goals and objectives is certainly awesome. In addition to project management’s great utility when correctly used, however, its utility has also led to many misapplications. As frequently noted by both consultants and industry project experts, there are many projects that:
• fall outside the organization’s stated mission,
• are completely unrelated to the strategy and goals of the organization, or
• have excessive funding levels relative to their expected benefits.
In addition to the growth in the number of organizations adopting project management, there is also accelerating growth in the number of multiple, simultaneous, and often interrelated projects in organizations. Thus, the issue naturally arises as to how one manages all these projects. Are they all really projects? (It has been suggested that perhaps up to 80 percent of all “projects” are not actually projects at all, since they do not include the three project requirements for scope, budget, and due date.) Should we be undertaking all of them? Among those we should implement, what should be their priorities?
It is not unusual these days for organizations to be wrestling with hundreds of new projects. With so many ongoing projects it becomes difficult for smaller projects to get adequate support, or even the attention of senior management. Three particularly common problems in organizations trying to manage multiple projects are:
1. Delays in one project cause delays in other projects because of common resource needs or technological dependencies.
2. The inefficient use of corporate resources results in peaks and valleys of resource utilization.
3. Bottlenecks in resource availability or lack of required technological inputs result in project delays that depend on those scarce resources or technology.
As might be expected, the report card on organizational success with management by projects is not stellar. For example, an early research study (Thomas et al., 2001) found that 30 percent of all projects were canceled midstream, and over half of completed projects were up to 190 percent over budget and 220 percent late. This same study found that the primary motivation of organizations to improve and expand their project management processes was due to major troubled or failed projects, new upcoming mega-projects, or to meet competition or maintain their market share. Those firms that “bought” project management skills from consultants tended to see it as a “commodity.” These fi ...
Sustainable project management a whole programme indeedHSBC Private Bank
paper about Sustainable PM: our world is changing. Organizations evolve in a moving socio-political context so they must understand the impact and influence of this context on their own performance and competitiveness. But organizations are also part of the global "system" and thus interact with their environment. These interactions require a real social and environmental responsibility. This responsibility leads companies to work in link with stakeholders and society, interact with each other, or influence them in a common respect...
How any organisation can drive culture and design systems to pursue practical...Toby Farren
This whitepaper will provide an insight into the different elements of modern innovation fostering,
including the various factors determining the capability of organisations to innovate internally;
the differences between frontend and backend innovation; and a focus on the relatively new
‘open’ innovation methods (including the advantages of utilizing sandboxes in the frontend
innovation process as well as collaborating with external bodies).
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THE THEORETICAL APPROACH TO PROJECT PORTFOLIO
MATURITY MANAGEMENT
Bronius Neverauskas1, Ruta Čiutienė2
1 Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, [email protected]
2 Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, [email protected]
Abstract
This paper is indented to discuss theoretical approaches to project portfolio management maturity.
Institutions use projects to solve strategic problems, to perform integrated processes, to generate innovative
activity strategies. In order to be able to manage strategically the competitive ability within business
environment, it is essential to discus about the maturity process of projects, project portfolio and program’s
projects, their potential vista development as well as strategy management within the organization. Expansion
of project based organizations only enhances project portfolio management maturity significance.
Project portfolio management maturity models serve as an instrument to criticize the project portfolio
management of organization. There are many models currently available to assess project management
maturity. We can find different researches designed for of the project portfolio management maturity.
In this context authors present the theoretical approach of the project portfolio management maturity
assessment. The paper demonstrates that project portfolio maturity management is crucial project
management problem.
Keywords. Project portfolio, project portfolio maturity, project portfolio maturity management,
excellence in project portfolio management.
JEL Classification: L21, M10, M12, M53.
Introduction
The environment is constantly changing and competition is growing. Therefore, it can be said that their
elements are interconnected. Globalization, new developments in technologies, recession and an instant
change of economics needs are bringing new challenges not only to business companies but to different
organizations as well. An organization’s chosen approach to project management can drive expected
changes through projects aimed at better meeting forthcoming organization‘s needs. The need to manage
essential changes through project came into force in business companies, public sectors and social
environment organizations. These institutions are using projects in order to solve strategic problems, to
perform integrated processes, to generate innovative activity strategies.
Project management is a dynamic and developing process in scientific and study context. In order to
be able to manage strategically the competitive ability within business environment, it is essential to discus
the maturity process of projects, project portfolio and program’s projects, their potential vista development
as well as strategy management within the organization. Expansion of project based organizations only
enhances project portfolio management matur.
Innomantra viewpoint -The End of CXOs Innovation Peekaboo Innomantra
Innovation has been a lifeline of many organizations for survival and growth, but the CXOs and leadership had a ‘peekaboo’ experience with ad hoc activities and very thin consistency in involvement of its people. As they were trying to structure by connecting the jigsaw pieces of innovation in a multicultural business and stakeholder environment to achieve an exponential impact in the age of triple-bottom-line Profits, People, and Planet.
ODTI research and analysis on the impact of current VUCA on the Work Dynamic for Individuals and Teams in an Organisation, Guidance on securing gains and leveraging new practices, tools and skills to to enable Individuals & Teams be more Innovative, Agile, Digitally Confident, and Collaborative to thrive in this continuing VUCA world
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedba.docxtroutmanboris
4.If we are to develop an understanding of culture through ‘feedback’, what does it mean for forms of organisation, aesthetics and practice?
如果我们要通过“反馈”来理解文化,这对组织、美学和实践的形式意味着什么?
Week 9: Feedback and Systems Wednesday, 13.03.2019
Through the application of mechanical and scientific models for the understanding of social and political life, cybernetic theory – in particular notions of feedback – informed the development of many cultural, artistic and political projects in the mid-late 20th century, yet its influence is still under-recognized, especially in contemporary techno-political debates. This session will address cybernetic genealogies of information theory and systems thinking to see how current ideas around ‘planetary computation’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ draw on much longer and more equivocal histories than is often recognised.
6.Hacking is seen as a paradigmatic form of innovation, but also of political resistance and of contemporary knowledge politics. Working through some examples, discuss how these might come together.
黑客行为被视为一种创新的典范形式,但也被视为一种政治阻力和当代知识政治。通过一些例子,讨论它们是如何组合在一起的。
Week 4: The Hacker Wednesday, 06.02.2019
As a figure of the culture industry, the hacker is both symbol of ultimate innovation, of a free- thinking high-skilled rebel, but also as the avatar of destruction and chaos. This lecture will survey some of the claims made around the figure of the hacker, in particular examine Mackenzie Wark's reading of the political economy of hacking as a general theory of the production of the new in 'A Hacker Manifesto'. We will also open up the concept of ‘hacking’ as an intervention into the nuts-and-bolts of a technological system to interventions on the very structures of cognition, as in Catherine Malabou’s concept of neuroplasticity, and a metaphorical cannibalism as post-colonial ‘culture hacking’.
7.The figure of the user has become increasingly important in contemporary culture, how has this come about and what effects does it have?
在当代文化中,用户的形象变得越来越重要,它是如何产生的,产生了什么影响?
Week 2: Users-Things-Machines Wednesday, 23.01.2019
Alongside the consumer, the figure of the user is one of the casts of the culture industry that is most incessantly modelled and pre-figured. As cultural processes are often interwoven with computational and networked digital media and as design might be said to provide if not a general theory of culture but a 'general practice' of entities, processes and events, this lecture traces some of the ways in which users, consumers and audiences have been theorised, created and invented. At the same time, the technologically and ecologically inspired shift in social theory from subjects to objects, from masses to networks, and from people to things means we need to re-visit some of our assumptions about the agents of cultural production, also viewing the production of culture in line with other shifts in social approaches to knowledge, technics and labour.
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PDC 2008 Toward participatory organizations.Peter Jones
Presentation for paper: Socialization of practice in a process world: Toward participatory organizations. In Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference 2008, Indiana University, Oct 1-4 2008.
Book Review: Making Technology Investments ProfitableIver Band
In “Making Technology Investments Profitable”,
management consultant Jack Keen diagnoses and treats
business and IT leaders that expect value but let it slip
away. “On-value” is the essential companion to “on-time”
and “on-budget”. Too often, leaders choose inferior
investments, assume that on-time and on-budget
programs1 are also on-value, and are forced to shut
down programs after they disrupt or disappoint their
intended beneficiaries.
Let’s translate ideas into sustainable businesses that bring innovative ideas to life. Together we can address different types of problems in more effective, innovative and agile ways. We have to be aware of the obstacles to unlock talent inside our organization and take actions right away.
Iterating an Innovation Model: Challenges and Opportunities in Adapting Accel...juliahaines
Startup accelerators have expanded worldwide in recent years, fostering the development of technology startups and spreading Lean practices and Silicon Valley values to all corners of the globe. These accelerators clearly create value—for the teams whose development they foster, the products they create, and the larger ecosystems they build. But there are also a number of challenges arising from the model and how it is implemented in different contexts globally. Through fieldwork at accelerators in Singapore and Buenos Aires, I investigate the global expansion of this innovation model. In this paper, I discuss the most salient challenges and discuss potential opportunities emerging from these challenges, and how other methods and practices such as design thinking, intensive user research and flexible, bottom up-approaches can add value to the accelerator process. I also highlight mutually beneficial ways the EPIC community can become more involved in startups ecosystems.
This is a paper published in the proceedings of the 2014 Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC).
Settling back into the moment (insight meditation - mindfulness)Claude Emond
Extrait illustré de « Expérience in Insight » de Joseph Goldstein.
Une excellente lecture pour explorer la pleine conscience (mindfulness) à travers une introduction à la méditation Vipassana, celle du Bouddha Siddhartha Gautama . https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassanā
Face au changement permanent, soyons tout simplement «WAGILES»Claude Emond
Conférence donnée au Colloque 2019 de GP-Québec, 23 octobre 2019. Présentation de l'approche hybride de gestion de projet, la «GP WAGILE», version à la Claude Emond !!! Applicable à mon humble avis sur 90% de projets tous domaines confondus, parce que facilement adaptable selon le contexte du projet à réaliser. Des centaines de personnes formées à ce jour, et des centaines d'utilisateurs satisfaits de la valeur livrée par leurs projets.
Mesure de l'agilité organisationnelle en 19 points. Vous pouvez avoir une copie électronique (incluant les instructions, l'interprétation et les calculs automatique) à me contactant par courriel au claude.emond@qualiscope.ca
L'agilité et les clés de l'engagement et de la haute performance des équipes ...Claude Emond
Conférence Agile Tour, Montréal, automne 2014 sur l'engagement comme précurseur de la performance. On y explique la nécessité d'avoir des membres d'équipe engagés avant de pouvoir vraiment atteindre un niveau de performance supérieur. Présentation d'exemples concrets et d'un outil (Le Radar de Zara) pour mesurer la présence de l'engagement et des autres comportements nécessaires à la mise en place d'une équipe performante. S'inspire des principes et des valeurs agiles.
Présentation du GPS HP (humaniser la performance) Claude Emond
Présentation du GPS HP (Humaniser la Performance) , la seule mesure basée sur les écarts d'alignement de vos parties prenantes (Gap Index) visant à transformer, par la réduction de ces écarts, votre entreprise en une organisation plus humaine, plus collaborative, plus agile et plus innovante capable de maximiser ses bénéfices d'affaires de façon durable dans un environnement d'affaires en changement permanent (VICA). Un partenariat de Quali-Scope, Symbiocratie, MindSuiteMetrics et l'Arizona State University (ASU Project Humanities), 4 membres du Groupe TransformAgilité.
Invitation conférence sur l'agilité de production 7 juin, BeaucevilleClaude Emond
Invitation à la conférence sur l'agilité en production, qui sera donnée à Beauceville le 7 juin 2017, en collaboration avec Québec International et le CLD Robert-Cliche
Processus de gestion de projets «agile» et émergentsClaude Emond
Formation sur les processus de gestion de projets et de production agiles et émergents donnée en 2010-2011 dans le cadre du Mastère spécialisé en management par projets (MSMPP) des écoles du Cesi (www.cesi.fr) de Rouen, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Nancy et St-Nazaire (Nantes). C'est la première fois que j'incluais dans mes formations les principes de l'agilité de production. C'était aussi la première fois que je comparais l'évolution des processus de gestion plus agiles, plus collaboratifs et plus humains à la métaphore bouddhiste de la «quête du bœuf» .
Le voyage du héros et la quête du bon projet!Claude Emond
Se transformer pour gérer son portefeuille de projets dans un monde en changement permanent (VUCA) - Conférence présentée au Symposium 2015 de PMI-Montréal
Introduction à la GPP - Gestion de portefeuille de projetsClaude Emond
Petit document expliquant sommairement la raison d'être et le fonctionnement d'un processus de gestion de portefeuille de projets. Ce sont les grandes lignes. qu'on veuille ou non gérer le tout de façon traditionnelle, agile ou hybride. Il suffit d'avoir le bon mindset et de moduler l'approche itérative et collaborative en fonction du contexte.
IDP 2015 - Atelier de 3 jours - Gestion agile des projets d'innovation (4, 9 ...Claude Emond
Nouvel atelier de Claude Emond en GP agile des projets d'innovation et de développement de produits, pour L'IDP. Donné en 3 journées (4, 9 et 16 nov 2015) incluant, pour chaque participant, un total de 3 heures de coaching personnel sur un projet de leur choix, pendant, entre et après chaque jour de formation
8 rules to succeed at lean project management, including a rule to ensure the proper organizational culture change. A series of blog posts I wrote for www.projecttimes.com in 2009, but still relevant to TransformAgility.
Les fondements de l'agilité organisationnelleClaude Emond
Petit traité sur le pourquoi, le comment et le quoi de l'agilité organisationnelle. Compilation d'une série de 3 articles écrits pour le blogue de www.scrumsaguenay.ca . Gros merci à Sylvain Gravel pour l'invitation à écrire sur son site.
Présentation sur l'agilité organisationnelle faite par Fréderic Moreau et Claude Emond pour lancer la communauté de pratique sur l'agilité organisationnelle d'Agile Montréal, le 11 février 2015
[Note: This is a partial preview. To download this presentation, visit:
https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations]
Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
To download the complete presentation, visit: https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations
LA HUG - Video Testimonials with Chynna Morgan - June 2024Lital Barkan
Have you ever heard that user-generated content or video testimonials can take your brand to the next level? We will explore how you can effectively use video testimonials to leverage and boost your sales, content strategy, and increase your CRM data.🤯
We will dig deeper into:
1. How to capture video testimonials that convert from your audience 🎥
2. How to leverage your testimonials to boost your sales 💲
3. How you can capture more CRM data to understand your audience better through video testimonials. 📊
3.0 Project 2_ Developing My Brand Identity Kit.pptxtanyjahb
A personal brand exploration presentation summarizes an individual's unique qualities and goals, covering strengths, values, passions, and target audience. It helps individuals understand what makes them stand out, their desired image, and how they aim to achieve it.
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1. THE PROJECT AGE : WORKING PAPER No. 1
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Meet STAN, TED and HAL – Introducing the three main classes of
processes used by successful «Project Age» organizations.
Co-authors :
Claude Emond, MBA, MEng, PMP, strategic counsel/management by projects, CCDI
Hugues Bouchard, MASc, PMO Manager, Microcell Connexions
1. Welcome to «The Project Age» !
“What should be measured by our strategic dashboard? Functional recurring activities? Projects? Both?”
“How can I relate my project portfolio selection and management criteria to the balanced scorecard of the
company ? Is-it really necessary that I do so?”
“What do we measure at each «gate» or revision milestone of this project?”
“Are all projects to be filtered through the project portfolio system ? What about my planned semi-annual
preventive maintenance plant shutdown ? It is a project, isn’t-it?”
“How can I compare, in value, current operations that produce new value everyday with a project which is costing
me money and do not produce value yet ?”
“When do activities become projects?”
“Why do I feel so insecure with all those projects invading my job ?”
Those are but a few of the questions and preoccupations that customers, colleagues and coworkers have been
exposing to us over and over again. Everyday, they have to reconcile their traditional functional vision of the
workplace with the imperatives of managing more and more projects. Most of them feel like they are living in a
very chaotic world where everything changes so fast, where new business fads (including project management)
mingle with traditional business processes that do not seem to be doing the job anymore. Too many competing
old and new business processes, too many changes, to many new managerial recipes, too many projects with
too many new concepts, processes and tools.
WELCOME TO THE PROJECT AGE !
2. Why «The Project Age»
For most of the last decade, visionaries like Tom Peters have evangelized the coming of what we might call «The
Project Age». Our times are characterized by:
!" worldwide competitive pressures,
!" the need to differentiate oneself in a global market,
!" the requirement to meet high quality international norms and processes to be accepted in new markets
and be more competitive (ISO 9000, ISO 14 000, SIX SIGMA, etc.),
!" shorter and shorter product life cycles
!" faster new product development imperatives
Today’s organizations are forced to invest more and more of their resources in strategic projects in a race to keep
the upper hand over competitors and increase their value, be it for their owners, their shareholders, their
customers, their employees or society as a whole.
In the new economy sectors (biotech, telecom, IT, e-business, etc.), “mixed” organizations, executing as much
activities or more activities on the project side than on the traditional/operational functional side of their
businesses, are now being more and more involved in the development of project offices, program management
systems, portfolio management and «gating» processes, strategic project management organizational structures
and the like.
Even more traditional manufacturing organizations are forced, by global competition and time-to-market
pressures for new products, to invest in strategic projects to keep their edge. While doing so, they have to
reconcile a strong functional culture with the peculiar needs of delivering through unique, “one-time only” projects.
In this situation, these organizations are also developing their versions of project portfolio management systems,
«gating» processes, project support offices, sometimes in an atmosphere of great unease. This is particularly
true of those organizations who still have to maintain a strong functional culture while, at the same time,
committing more and more time and resources to project initiatives.
The recent advent of Strategic Value Measurement and Management, which is pushing more and more
organizations (including governments) to implement «strategic dashboards» (ref. 1,2), is leading companies to
find ways to reconcile functional and project processes and activities that compete for limited resources, in an
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effort to measure and maximize their respective contribution in producing or creating new value for the
organization. The current state of mind in those organizations is one of urgency to resolve functional versus
project organizational conflicts, but also one of great confusion in the face of the many new concepts, processes,
systems and tools that have to be integrated into a culture that had not to long ago, and still has in some cases, a
very strong functional/operational flavor.
3. Processes, processes, processes – The STRATEGIC and the TACTICAL
As for any other organization, the «Project Age» organization:
!"
!"
!"
!"
originates from a VISION
that dictates a MISSION
which can then be materialized through a corporate STRATEGY
calling for some STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT processes, systems and tools to manage the
organization towards the attainment of global goals,
!" and also requiring TACTICAL MANAGEMENT processes, systems and tools to ensure those goals are
reached efficiently through day to day actions.
However, most organizations usually start organizing their increasing project activities by implementing
TACTICAL processes (e.g. the contents of most of the PMBOK). They do not make distinctions between tactical
and strategic issues. They start doing projects the right way, but they still do not have a clue about doing the right
project or not. The next thing to be implemented is usually a phase-gate process, before even contemplating the
implementation of the project portfolio management process that dictates what must be measured to prioritize a
project and qualify if it is really creating new value. Then, and only then, do they talk about implementing a
portfolio management process and realize that they still do not know how to prioritize objectively their projects;
the value management prerequisites of a strategic dashboard are not yet in place and every prioritization
decision must be made intuitively, by gut feel.
Maybe implementing processes upside down is the only way, for these organizations, resource wise and time
wise, to realize what is missing along the way and evolve to more complete strategic management and value
production processes. In this case, they need as a minimum a value model that can help them understand the
limitations of the diverse processes they put into place and help them in designing flexible processes that will be
at least partly reusable in the future, while climbing the ladder towards more complete and better-balanced
strategic project processes.
4. Maximizing the value of the «Project Age» organization – The need for HUMAN resources supporting
processes
But STRATEGIC and TACTICAL processes, in whichever order we introduce or apply them, do not realize
projects. HUMANS do.
Today, more than ever, this «truism» is at last recognized by goverments and business communities alike and
human contribution to an organization overall value is well understood.
«Human Capital» is now a compulsary valuation parameter of the total worth and growth potential of an
organization. In their breakthrough book,« Intellectual Capital » (ref.3), Edvinsson and Malone presented a
model of market valuation that is now recognized worldwide. Fig. 5 reproduces the value tree that they developed
for Skandia, a swedish financial services leader, a tree that has revolutionized the vision of market value.
LEGEND :
S = Strategic processes
T = Tactical processes
H = Human processes
S/T
H
S/T
S
T
Source : Edvinsson and Malone (ref.3); processes (S,T,H) are our addition
Fig 1. The value tree according to SKANDIA and key
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Edvinsson and Malone say that Human Capital comprises “all individual capabilities, the knowledge, skill, and
experience of the company’s employees and managers. But it must be more than simply the sum of these
measures; rather, it also must capture the dynamics of an intelligent organization in a changing competitive
environment”.
The renowned «Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development» (OCDE), among others, has
dedicated its 1999 annual symposium “Measuring and Reporting Intellectual Capital” to the issue of
measuring intangible assets, notably the Human Capital portion of the value tree (ref.4).
The Project Age organization must generate value through managing properly the human aspect of the
organization. HUMAN resources supporting processes are required. Those will increase the overall value of the
organization’s worth by the compounded effect of valuable and value-producing human resources supported by
well designed and balanced STRATEGIC and TACTICAL processes.
In the Project Age, more than ever before, leaving human resources managing their ever changing environment
all by themselves, without any organizational planning, management and caring, is asking for big trouble. The
Project Age forces everybody to adapt to the project life, be it as a team member or as a project management
specialist; and this cannot be done without proper training, coaching and rewarding.
Knowledge workers are the main resources of the successful Project Age organization :
!" On the «project side» of the organization, in a world where technological wizardry is still valued a lot
more than the general management skills of a project manager, many organizations have a hard time
finding and keeping project management resources. Both formal project management career
development and the promotion of Communities of Practice (CoP) are essential elements to put in place
and encourage scare project management resources to stay in the organization and grow with it.
!" On the «functional side» of the organization, people are expected to deliver cross-functional projects,
work horizontally and collaborate across functions, while being made individually accountable for action
items that were managed by collective consensus in the past. This still represents a paradigm shift for
many high-skilled technical specialists. Proper processes must be put in place to, among other things,
promote the project way of doing business, train people in collaborative skills and align rewards with the
new desired behaviors.
«FEEL RIGHT»
HAL PROCESSES
PUTTING TOGETHER ALL «THE RIGHT
THINGS» TO DO
Vision
To succeed in
managing The Project
Age enterprise and
increase its total value,
the human resources
involved must perform,
feel right performing
both in a functional
mode and in a project
mode, and be able to
succeed activities
interfacing between
the two modes
Be it in a traditional, a mixed or a pure project
organization, the vision and the mission is the same
for all. The same strategic dashboard is used by
everybody and dictates «the right things to do» in
recurring activities as well as in project activities.
Mission
Corporate startegy
Goals and objectives
Strategic Dashboard
FUNCTIONAL
ACTIVITIES STRATEGIC
management process
Management
by «period»
processes
Value
USING DIFFERENT «DO THE RIGHT THING»
(STAN) PROCESSES DEPENDING ON THE
TYPE OF ACTIVITIES
PROJECT PORTFOLIO
Management process
Value
Management
by «phase»
processes
1
Strategic management processes differ whether
you are in a functional mode or in a project mode
«DOING IT RIGHT»
TED PROCESSES
Management by FUNCTIONS
Recurring
activities
management
TARGET
Day-to-day recurring activities
Management by PROGRAMS
TARGET
Program and
project
management
processes
On the tactical level, doing right the right
things uses different processes depending if
you are in functional or project mode, while
the same overall result is pursued :
PRODUCE AND CREATE VALUE
Project Project Project Project Project
THE ORGANIZATION WORKFORCE
Management by projects (MBP)
Recurring operations management
2
Fig 2. The Project Age Value Model
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5. The «Project Age Value Model»
The three main classes of processes are then required to create and maximize value in the Project Age
organization :
!" Strategic Targeting And Navigating processes (in short the STAN processes) that permit an
organization to focus on and «DO THE RIGHT THING»
!" the Tactical Efficiency Driving processes (in short the TED processes) that help an organization «DO
IT RIGHT»
!" Human Asset Leveraging processes (in short the HAL processes) that ensure everyone in the
organization can accept the changes inherent to project life and «FEEL RIGHT» about it all.
These processes differ however depending whether you are working on projects, on recurring functional activities
or on both type of activities. The «Project Age Value Model», illustrated in traditional triangular form (going from
strategic concerns down to tactical actions) in figure 2, should however permit to reconcile these differences and
help organizations understand their specific workings and how they inter-relate.
a)
Sharing Vision, mission and corporate strategy : defining the RIGHT THING TO DO
The tip of the triangle (first three elements) illustrates the sequence of STAN processes, in place in any
organization, that serve to TARGET the «RIGHT THING TO DO». ALL the activities of an organization share a
common vision and a common mission. This common vision and mission can be realized by defining overall
strategic goals and objectives and by putting together a strategic dashboard management process ( strategic
scorecard, balanced scorecard or the like) that will ensure that we "do the right things" and are able to report on
the performance of the organization as a whole in producing the desired value.
Those three elements/management processes dictate all further organizational actions, recurrent and project
activities alike.
b)
Functions and Projects –different strokes to «DO THE RIGHT THING»
The middle of the triangle (fourth element), illustrates the sequence of STAN processes, in place in any
organization, that serve to NAVIGATE in the organization to follow and report on the «RIGHT THING TO DO».
From this point down, strategic processes differ whether you are in a functional mode of value production or in a
project mode of new value creation. The functional side of the organization uses a management process that
«periodically» statute on the value generated or to be generated by recurrent operations. The project side of the
organization uses a PROJECT PORTFOLIO management process that statute on project contribution to value
(mostly FUTURE value) at different completion «phases» of a given project.
The important point at the strategic management level is that, be it on the FUNCTIONAL or the PROJECT side,
element are managed globally. This is solely through comparing the relative contribution of all functional activities
to RECURRENT VALUE PRODUCTION and the relative contribution of all project activities to NEW VALUE
CREATION, that one can manage strategically and ensure that the organization will continue to «DO THE RIGHT
THING». In that context, a «gating» process that fails to be linked to an organization PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT process and does not include, at a given gate, re-assessing the project with respect to the
complete portfolio and incoming projects, is not strategic in nature and does not have the required mechanisms
to ensure that this project continues to be «the right thing to do».
c)
Functions and Projects--«DOING IT RIGHT» both ways
The bottom of the triangle (fifth element) illustrates the sequence of TED processes, in place in any organization,
that serve to execute efficiently the «RIGHT THING TO DO». and report if we «DO IT RIGHT».From this point
down, the intent is TACTICAL in nature. TED processes differ whether you are in a functional mode of value
production or in a project mode of new value creation. The functional side of the organization uses recurring
activities/operations management processes that «periodically» statute (but for shorter intervals than for strategic
management) on the efficiency of the recurrent operations of a given function. The project side of the
organization uses tactical program/project management processes that statute on the efficiency of project
planning/implementation activities in between the different completion «phases» of a given project.
The important point at the tactical management level is that, be it on the FUNCTIONAL or the PROJECT side,
activities are managed individually, within a given FUNCTION or within a given PROJECT. The question to
answer is “Is this function or project managed efficiently with maximum result, from minimum use of resources
and with minimum effort ?”.
In that context, on the project side, most of the contents of the PMBOK 2000 (except the new risk management
chapter that has some strategic flavor) is tactical in nature and proposes useful information on the concepts,
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approaches and processes that will increase project management efficiency in an organization. However, without
the presence of the STAN processes, these TED processes will not be sufficient to create new value for an
organization: you might end up «DOING RIGHT» the «WRONG THING».
d)
Strategic activities crossing over between the functional to the project side
The items with an arrow linked to the
functional to the project side.
1
illustrate strategic activities crossing over between the
Requests for unique continuous improvement projects originate from the FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIC
management process as TOP MANAGEMENT realizes that some or all functional activities must be
realigned/reengineered to produce the desired value. For example, the decision to implement a SIX SIGMA
system in the organization would be such a project. Because such projects can not be realized within day-to-day
operations, imply major efforts and require a lot of resources, they definitely compete with other unique strategic
projects and have then to be treated and assess within the PROJECT PORTFOLIO management process. Most
major functional IT projects (new inventory management system, new production management system, etc.),
among others, should also be considered strategic projects and cross over to the PROJECT side to be managed
through the PROJECT PORTFOLIO management process.
However, once a project of this type is completed, its deliverables are transferred/integrated to the FUNCTIONAL
side of the organization to produce, on a day-to-day basis, added value. For example, once a new payroll
management system project is installed, it is commissioned and used to manage the recurring payroll activities,
hopefully in a more efficient manner.
e)
Activities interfacing continuously between functional and project side at the tactical management
level.
2
The items with an arrow linked to the
illustrate activities interfacing continuously between functional
and project side at the tactical management level.
At the tactical level , certain recurrent functional activities, for example, "minor" continuous improvement
initiatives covered in operational budgets, punctual minor repairs or modifications to equipment, "RECURRING
PROJECTS" like planned "production shutdowns" for preventive maintenance and/or planned repairs, etc.,
although essential to maintain functional VALUE PRODUCTION, do not and should not be included in the
strategic management process on the project side (PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT). However, those
activities are basically projects and would be realized more efficiently through a project management mode
instead of through a functional management mode, thus the back and forth interface between the two modes at
the tactical level. The decision to classify these activities as tactical instead of strategic projects, thus not to
subject them to the project portfolio management process, depends on the specific context of each organization,
and is most often than not an arbitrary choice dictated by the nature and mostly the scope magnitude of the
initiative.
The choice of where to draw the line between strategic and tactical projects must be equilibrated in order not to
subject tactical activities to much slower strategic management processes, but also to ensure at the same time
that any indirect strategic aspect of a tactical project, that might hinder or increase value production, is not
neglected and is taken into account at the strategic level.
f)
The ever present HAL processes
The organization workforce is often distributed any which way an enterprise can to execute either or both project
and functional activities, be it at the strategic and/or at the tactical level.
The adding of the HAL processes to the project-based organization «process toolbox» is necessary to distribute,
manage, motivate and reward this workforce. Operational HAL processes complete the «Project Age Value
Model» as illustrated in Figure 2.
HAL processes are present in any human activities and condition all the other processes of the organization, from
setting the vision to carrying out day-to-day recurring operations and project activities.
6. First things first : making sense of and prioritizing organizational processes, structures and systems
«Process», by defining workflow, dictates «Structure» which in turn conditions «Support Systems». Although
these three elements of any organizational change can and must be implemented simultaneously, this logical
precedence is inescapable for any enterprise which needs to migrate successfully, efficiently with minimum effort,
time and cost, towards a project-based organization.
Aside implementing new processes upside down, as explained previously, many «Project Age» organizations
often start implementing sophisticated enterprise-wide project management systems and putting together
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organizational structures (e.g. project offices) and project methodologies without understanding the nature of the
STAN, TED and HAL processes that have to be put in place to succeed in their industry and in the Project Age as
a whole.
The optimal precedence to respect in implementing project management should be as follows:
!" Value creation dictates the STAN processes to be put in place
!" Strategic imperatives will undoubtedly flavor the TED processes and solutions
!" Once these processes are understood, then HAL processes must be defined that will ensure that
rewards systems and the like will condition behaviors towards the successful implementation of strategic
and/or tactical objectives
!" Once these three classes of processes and what the organization is trying to achieve through them are
well understood, only then can we properly re-engineer organizational structures and systems (including
the ever present IT support systems).
Many organizations cannot and will not follow this implementation sequence, often by necessity more than by
choice. Timing, resource constraints, strategic maturity and internal politics will all influence the implementation
sequence of processes, methods, structures, systems and tools. However, understanding the three classes of
processes presented in the «Project Age Value Model», within their peculiar business context, should help
organizations appreciate all the issues at stake and evolve more harmoniously to produce and create outstanding
value for all their stakeholders.
7. Concluding remarks
This article is part one of a three-part series covering the Project Age and the contribution of project management
processes in helping organizations to cope with the «management by projects» way of doing business today. The
article has proposed a value model to help the Project Age organizations better understand their new
environment, the processes at play (STAN, TED and HAL) and how they interrelate. It has been designed to be
an introduction to the organizational environment of a typical «Project Age» organization and, as such, gives a
very general overview of the processes at play and of the issues they help to tackle.
Part 2 of the series, “STAN and TED at work”, will be a detailed discussion on the main processes, systems and
organizational tools used by successful «Project Age» organizations to DO THE RIGHT THING and DO IT
RIGHT .
Part 3 of the series, “HAL aboard”, will be a detailed discussion on the main processes, systems and
organizational tools used by successful «Project Age» organizations to secure and nurture HUMAN CAPITAL
and get everybody to FEEL RIGHT about the Project Age way doing business and succeed.
8. References
1. Performance Drivers: A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard
st
by Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy, Magnus Wetter, John Wiley & Son Ltd ,1 edition, 1999
2. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business
Environment by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, Harvard Business School, 2000
3. Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower by Leif
Edvinsson, Michael S. Malone, Harperbusiness , 1997
4. http://www.oecd.org//dsti/sti/industry/indcomp/act/ams-conf/symposium-old.htm
9. About the authors
Claude Emond is a graduate (BEng) of the Royal Military College of Canada. He has a MEng from McGill and a
MBA from Ottawa U. Claude, a certified project management professional (PMP), has been working in project
management, both in the public and the private sectors, for more than 25 years. He is currently Vice President for
Cabinet Conseil Développement (CCDI) Inc. (www.ccdi.ca), a Canadian project-based management consulting
firm.
Hugues Bouchard is a graduate from École Polytechnique (Montreal U.), from which he received both a Bachelor
and a Master degree in applied science (BASc, MASc). Since he graduated, he has been working in the telecom
industry, both on project and operational activities. He is currently the manager of the Project Management Office
(PMO) of Microcell Connexions, a Canadian provider of wireless communication infrastructure services.
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