Remove Blog Remove Methodologies Remove Productivity Remove Strategy
article thumbnail

How To Write a Blog Your Ideal Client Wants to Read

Consulting Matters

Most blog posts aren't helpful to your ideal customer. In this "On-The-Air Coaching Session", I sat down with Phil Fraser to discuss a blog post that took him three weeks to write! Sadly, the owner didn't touch the new strategy because he was comfortable with how things were; it turned a profit, and that's all he needed.

How To 194
article thumbnail

The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing Project Management: Best Practices and Strategies

Epicflow

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. This challenge is complexified by the demand for the high quality of delivered products and a lack of human resources.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

3 Times Your Project Productivity Will Suffer (And What to Do About it)

PM Alliance

Maintaining strong productivity throughout your project’s lifecycle—across all the functional areas working to move an initiative from planning to execution—is a core component in achieving consistent project success. Difficult situations, however, often create challenges when it comes to keeping productivity levels up.

article thumbnail

The Chief Project Officer: Roles and Responsibilities

Epicflow

In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy.

article thumbnail

A Phase-Gate Process in Project Management: Questions and Answers

Epicflow

There are a variety of approaches and methodologies aimed to increase the effectiveness of managing projects and deliver better outcomes. A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates.

article thumbnail

Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. You may be asking, isn’t it the role of a Chief Product Officer to create solutions across products? Doesn’t the Chief Marketing Officer look at opportunities out in the market?

article thumbnail

What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. There are three main types of business consultants.