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How Do You Make Your Strategy Work?

Deborah Bigelow Crawford

We all know that organizations need to improve their strategy execution.  Bottom line, with poor execution, organizational success is limited.  Making strategy work pays major dividends, so what are you doing to make... Read More »

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Culture & Change Management, Portfolio Management, Strategy Execution, Training and the PMO

Training Pays for Itself; Failure to Train Is Expensive

In my last post on our Strategy & Projects blog, I reported the troubling news from PMI’s 2016 Pulse of the Profession that project and program success rates have faltered, and pointed readers to... Read More »

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Competency, Performance Measurement, Project Management Research, Project Management Training

Why Managing Multiple Projects Isn’t Program Management ... and What to Do About It

In the past year, several of our most sophisticated clients added our Managing Multiple Projects course to their curricula. In fact, this course has become so popular, that we offer it as a public virtual... Read More »

Posted on Apr 27, 2016 by in Blended Learning, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management Basics, Project Management Training, Stakeholder Management, Training

Twenty Years of PM Excellence!

Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Wow!  Twenty years!  We can hardly believe it … it feels like yesterday when the first tri-fold brochure carrying the name PM Solutions hit the market!  What a ride it has been!... Read More »

Posted on Apr 26, 2016 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Culture & Change Management, Human Capital, Leadership, Project & Program Management, Project Management Basics, Project Management Research, Project Management Training, Site News

Troubled Projects and Root Causes

Our colleagues at PM Solutions just put out another great white paper: Troubled Projects? Key Strategies for Quick Turnarounds. It synthesizes multiple project research studies into a straightforward approach to project review and recovery. Which,... Read More »

Posted on Apr 20, 2016 by in Business Skills for PMs, Human Capital, Leadership, Project Management Research, Strategy Execution

Benefits Realization … Will Organizations Invest What It Takes?

Deborah Bigelow Crawford

There’s a lot of talk today in project management … and in the business world … about benefits realization. Sounds like a good thing … sounds like an obvious thing we should be... Read More »

Posted on Apr 7, 2016 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Strategy Execution

Higher Education Bolsters Job Skills via Training Partnerships

When it comes to business education, the idea of “the ivory tower” of academia—an environment separate from the workaday world—just doesn’t apply. In fact, there is a... Read More »

Posted on Mar 25, 2016 by in Business Skills for PMs, Project & Program Management, Project Management Basics, Project Management Training, Training

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