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How To Sustain Change: Keeping The Momentum Going After The Training Ends

Nash Consulting

If providing team members with more constructive feedback is a new priority, include this in performance reviews, screen for job applicants who are willing and able to do this, and find ways to promote or reward those who exemplify the behaviors.

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Business Processes Are Learning to Hack Themselves

Harvard Business

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. The software can spot hidden problems in existing processes and optimize quality in products. Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? How it effects product design and customer experience.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Sustaining changes are permanent changes to working practices, processes, or relationships that will cause the benefits to be delivered. devices, software, infrastructure) is available for use and other necessary enabling changes have been made. They cannot normally be made until the new IT system (e.g.,

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Sometimes, they put the project on the parking lot, because maybe the laws of physics would change? Computers kept getting cheaper and more capable, so, in a sense, the laws of physics did change. Managers Had Many Cancellation Options. My managers didn't just cancel projects at the end of the requirements phase.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Patrick Smith/Getty Images. It’s for techies. It’s for hip Silicon Valley startups. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically.

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The Importance of Project Risk Management for A&E Firms

Progressus

Lack of Change Control: You can expect there to be a degree of scope creep in most projects, therefore it is important to design a process to manage these changes. While changes can be facilitated through a change management process, this is not the optimal approach.