Soni’s blog What a Waste got me thinking and provided the inspiration for my own blog post: The Steak, the Sizzle, the Dream…what hooked you?
Living on the sales front lines I’m constantly exposed to product presentations delivered by a diversely talented group of professional presenters, sales people and subject matter experts. Yep, I too have delivered my share of product demos. I’m not expert but have years of experience.
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It is virtually impossible to enjoy any connected electronic device today without enduring countless hours of meaningless interruptions.
I’m talking about radio, TV, Internet, smartphones and even the library research computer! Seriously—when was the last time you enjoyed commercial-free entertainment or Internet browsing? Don’t say the movie theater—unless you show up 15 minutes after the advertised start time.
TweetWe CAN learn from our mistakes…providing our project management system delivers the goods!
Through their research “Forensic Project Management: An Exploratory Examination of the Causal Behavior of Design-Induced Rework,” Peter E. D. Love, David J. Edwards and Zahir Irani found, on average, that rework contributed 52% of a project’s total cost overrun, and concluded that “having to unnecessarily repeat activities or processes that were incorrectly implemented the first time within a project can adversely affect the profitability, performance, and reputation of those organization(s) involved; as well as a project’s organizational and social fabric.”
TweetMy hat is off and I graciously bow to the product and production managers for Delsey Toilet Paper.
You might be wondering why the president of a project management software development company is blogging about “TP”. Read on.
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In a previous post, I discussed the reality that on average only 40% of a company’s ERP solution has been deployed. I bring this up again because of an innocent question posed by a client during a follow-up conversation related to a reference call he had received.
