Too often, organizations mistake a need for sound business management, as a need for IT solutions. A company must have its business process and model defined and understood prior to embarking on the implementation of an IT solution. Generally, IT professionals are well trained and disciplined to peel back the onion of a business requirement,…
Category: Competencies
Tools Don’t Substitute for Expertise
A common lament I have heard in the world of projects and project management: “If I only had access to Microsoft Project, I’d be a better project manager.” WRONG! If you have good project management skills to begin with, Microsoft project may allow you to extend those skills to managing larger, more complex initiatives and…
Exploit Organizational Credibility!
A tremendous organizational time saver is an appropriate combination of common sense and trust. Repeatedly, managers and peers delve outside their functional or technical areas where there own expertise is either suspect or non-existent, in order to explore options, alternatives, and other approaches which they assume the “owner” of the area hasn’t explored fully. This…