Project Management
I hate consultants
'I hate consultants' by Eric D. Brown - Information Technology, Leadership, The New CIO
When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion’s mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting.
Some background When I was an independent consultant I spent a lot of time in business development mode. Lots of time going to networking events and meeting new people. I enjoyed that (and should be doing it now even too)…but some of the people you meet while out and about can be very surprising.
Take “John” (name changed) as an example.
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A Pig In Lipstick? Let’s Focus On The Right Things
Have you heard the quote “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” That was said by Barack Obama during his Presidential campaign. I thought of that today when I read a story on MSNBC.
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How to Lead Change by Example - 5 Tips for HR Professionals
This is a summary of an original article published by Strategic HR Review.
In an economic downturn and subsequent recovery, change is inevitable for every organization. Effective Change Management is often a mix of the strategic and the practical. It can encompass everything from ensuring strategies are aligned, to making sure your weekly bulletin goes out on time, on message and to the right people. From a HR perspective, it is important to provide leadership and guidance by example and the following actions can help HR executives to lead the way during the change process.
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Do you need a HR background to be a successful HR Director?
Posted September 16th, 2009 by DiscussHR
Can someone with a ‘non-HR’ background be HR Director? What about specific HR knowledge on policies, benefits/reward, industrial/employee relations, employment law? Who is responsible for ‘People Management’ anyway? and more. Check the answers on the HR Transformers Blog. A great discussion again from Andrew Spence. Well done!
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Making the Business Case for HR Investments
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The HR department in most organizations is primarily concerned with everything related to the management of the employee life cycle, from recruiting and hiring to retaining, training, ongoing development, and finally separation or retirement.
Cultural impacts on project management – Anglo-Saxons versus the Spanish.
| By Phil Thistlethwaite - The Spanish and the Anglo-Saxons are both different and similar - armadas, monarchy, football, empires, you name it. They also both 'do' project management.
I have worked extensively with European stakeholders over the past 12 years, and been fortunate enough to have managed large-scale change programmes on Asia-Pacific, European and global scales. |
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Project Success and Failure and The New CIO
Eric D. Brown for Eric D. Brown - Technology, Strategy, People & Projects, 2009.
The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges.
Earlier this week, I listened to an interesting webinar hosted by Michael Krigsman and led by Chris Curran. The topic of the webinar was the CIO’s role in success or failure of IT projects. Great webinar with some excellent folks. Both Michael and Chris provided after-action blog posts about webinar…you can jump over and read them
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#HRHappyHour-Episode 6 - The HRevolution!
Posted August 2nd, 2009 by DiscussHR
RT @SteveBoese: Wow that was fast - the #HRHappyHour - Episode 6 archive from tonight is up at - http://bit.ly/NNumg - the HRevolution
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