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Meetings as a Form of Collaboration

June 30th, 2009

Meetings. What a time sink, and yet the need for collaboration requires having meetings. I participated in a meeting that was scheduled for 30 minutes. It in fact continued for 90 minutes, and had to be rescheduled for a second session because we still didn’t get to our deliverables.
Right. And you probably have to sit through a lot more [...]

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There’s a Bit of GM in All of Us

June 1st, 2009

Today’s news about GM and its slide into bankruptcy provides some challenging questions for all businesses. While you are thinking about how to avoid GM’s consequences, conside three opportunities to re-invent your sales process… so you don’t end up looking like one of the characters in the book, Who Moved My Cheese.

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Your Performance Improvement, Technology and the Second Day

May 19th, 2009

On the second day of any improvement process, with or without
software, we all face a test. A choice to starting putting off the
very process we just kicked off the day before…

Management Strategy & Software – Doing More with Less

May 18th, 2009

The current financial distress also delivers a number of very
valuable opportunities. Use the pressure to do more with less to:
1. Get your team tightly focused on only spending time on
what creates value, and 2. Get your systems in place so your
team has the needed information within two clicks.

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How to Do More with Less using ManagePro

April 22nd, 2009

We talk to lots of our customers, every day. As we do, there is a repeated theme of having to do more with less, of having less people resources at work, and having more to do. Everyone seems to be experiencing it.
Although the challenge of “Doing more with Less” gets [...]

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Project Management - Accountable to Working Smart

April 17th, 2009

Project management boils down to a single concept for me… accountably working smart. And working smart reduces to “head’s up” manner of working that is sensitive to people and the Outcome, and making the adjustments to reach both within your time and resources.

Working Smart - 3 Simple Keys for Managing Information

April 11th, 2009

I wanted to follow-up my blog on working smart earlier this week, and not let the week go by without providing some tips on working smart that I promised.
Let’s get a definition going to start. Here’s my working definition:
Working smart is a style of working based on the decisions you make and how you manage [...]

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Working Smart versus Working Hard and the Comfort of Habit

April 7th, 2009

If you asked three people, “Do you work smart?” they would
probably say, “Yes”, or something equivalent, perhaps in a
watered down format. Working smart is a positive attribute
most all of us would like to attribute to ourselves.
Asking for a definition might produce an interesting comment.
Let’s say for the sake of this blog that we use Ben [...]

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Project Management Software - What Project Managers really Use it For

April 1st, 2009

Progress updates is the number 1 rated feature used in project management software, yet often the number one thing missing. Read more about why and what’s driving that tension.

Flexible Project Management Software - Designed for Who? Defined as What?

March 27th, 2009

The definition of project management and what project management software is supposed to provide is very fuzzy at this point. On a general level project management is beginning to look like what everyone does who works with information in the current “information age”. On the other hand, people often think and refer to project management as something described by
either their own unique experience and outcome requirements or as defined by some threshold in size and/or complexity.