Project Management News

• Gary Hamel on Knowledge as a competitive advantage
• Getting the science right -->
  ...and when I say getting the science right, I could mean, getting it correctly, or I could mean getting it more to the political right.Please see this posting on our sister site, EarthPM.com, to find out what I could possibly be talking about...Click here, if you dare. [...]
• Going up? Taking a sideways step in the job market
  The career path for a project manager is pretty straightforward.  Start on project support and small projects, manage bigger and bigger projects, then become a programme manager.  Some people would argue that programme management and project management are different skill sets and programme management is not necessarily the natural progression.  But programm […]
• Vendor Management - Project Managers Get a C-minus
  Vendor Management - Project Managers Get a C-minus By Samuel Prasad Project managers are woefully ill-prepared in the area of procurement and/or vendor management. I am being very generous when I give them a grade of C-minus. Price doesn’t matter and SLA’s (service level agreements) are only marginally important. It sounds quite dubious, and I am […]
• Getting the Most Out of the Performance Management Initiative
  *Editor’s Note: Guest blogger, Ben Senecal, is a Director of Corporate Performance Management at Robbins-Gioia. He leads the development and delivery of consulting services to help clients define their performance outcomes and measures, establish a management framework for strategy and operations, and develop enabling systems and dashboards for perform […]