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Business Change for Change’s Sake
The phrase ‘Business Change’ is well established and common parlance these days in the world of medium to large sized organisations. In a sense, there is a business change ‘industry’. But what does the phrase really mean? Does it mean… … Continue reading
The underlying problems with PRINCE2® (and related ‘Best Practice’ Project Management methodologies)
Do your major projects have a structure similar to the model sketched below? That is, several stages (perhaps each of several or more months), separated by some kind of review meeting. If so, you are probably following a conventional ‘waterfall-style’ … Continue reading
Taking Costs out of Business Improvement Projects
Introduction With business projects in mind such as; business change, business process design/redesign and IT system implementations, the pressure to reduce project costs can – perhaps perversely it may appear, also be the opportunity to improve the results from the … Continue reading
On 60-80% project failure rates…
Interesting isn’t it, how what would have been success for the project, only becomes clear to us as we survey the wreckage of its failure. The project should have done this; it should have done that. Confronted with the wreckage, … Continue reading
On the way back…
The Btt web site has been “off the air” for a year or two. It’s on the way back – gradually! Over the next few months (June 2011 onwards), we’ll be adding quirky, pithy commentary the world never knew it … Continue reading