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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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The Safe Space #3 – getting focused

The Management Centre

I am a project manager and we have an agile-working structure. This could have a huge toll on your personal energy and wellbeing. So instead of thinking about all the things you need to do, start each day with one or two important goals – what would be the most impactful thing I could put my energy into today? I get stuff done.

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Reenergizing an organization and accelerating growth

Brimstone Consulting

Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results. The organization’s energy and confidence were back, well founded, and palatable. Download Case Study.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business

Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture. Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. HR must be a partner and enabler — but not the owner.

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Zappos Holacracy and When It’s a Good Thing For People to Leave

Cheryl Cran

Those who choose to leave take with them any energy that was not committed to the future and vision of where the company is heading. My research has shown that this is the way forward for businesses : to empower their leaders and teams to increase agility, adaptability and innovation. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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