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In my last Advisor ( 2 August 2000), I talked about the importance of practicing risk management for effective business-IT alignment. I described risk management as a cyclical process, comprised of five main stages: identification, qualitative assessment, quantitative assessment, development of risk responses, and monitoring of implemented responses.
We all have come to understand how important communication is to a project. Balancing the need to keep everyone informed while avoiding management by democracy is a skill that every project manager must master. I recently came across a project that emphasized an important lesson about testing the effectiveness of a communications plan.
INDUSTRY ADOPTION OF E-CRM SLOW,
When I was a young boy, I remember my father telling me to beware of discussions and debates in which "reaction words" were used to evoke an emotional response that had little or nothing to do with the substance of the conversation. I have no idea why that lesson made such an impact on me, but it's one that we all see during debates about politics and religion.
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