Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
Leadership and teaming skills are front and center in times of rapid change. Meet today’s constant disruption head on with expert guidance in leadership, business strategy, transformation, and innovation. Whether the disruption du jour is a digitally-driven upending of traditional business models, the pandemic-driven end to business as usual, or the change-driven challenge of staffing that meets your transformation plans — you’ll be prepared with cutting edge techniques and expert knowledge that enable strategic leadership.
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THE END OF THE BEGINNING
In 1942, after the Allies had achieved a decisive defeat of Germany's Rommel in the North African desert, Winston Churchill, then prime minister of England, addressed Parliament. "This is not the end," he said.
INTRODUCTION
For a service company that delivers quality IT applications, project management (PM) is a fundamental discipline. In fact, project management -- strictly connected with a professional quality management approach -- can become the winning factor in the highly competitive area of application development, where the cost/time/quality factors need to be managed together.
Executive Summary
A Personal Improvement Program: The Project Leader Development Process
For a service company that delivers quality IT applications, project management (PM) is a fundamental discipline. In fact, project management -- strictly connected with a professional quality management approach -- can become the winning factor in the highly competitive area of application development, where the cost/time/quality factors need to be managed together.
Or Chicago? Or Boston? Or Moscow? This is called distributed software development (DSD), where parts of the development team are located at distant sites. The focus is on distance, and the problem is one of communication between the team members; this is what characterizes a DSD project.
Executive Update
Is that Your Final Answer? The Need for Auditing Your SLAs
You have a lot invested in your outsourcing partnership. The strategic planning that led to your business decision to outsource was most likely driven by a desire to lower cost, reduce delivery times, or improve quality. Regardless of how you got there, you are now in a relationship that has business-critical objectives.
Executive Update
Outsourcing: From Chaos to Calm
As the outsourcing business model becomes the norm, it seems to be a good time to pause and reflect on common observations and practices from the past several years. If you are new to the world of outsourcing, or if you are considering outsourcing for a department or function, we encourage you to learn from others' successes as well as their mistakes. Consider the guidelines in this Update to help turn chaos into calm.
