As a professional consultant for the past decade, I’ve had a unique front row seat to a diverse set of clients executing a vast array of projects. All have been high stress and important to the enterprise. But something is different in 2010. Employees are busier — and more stressed (I’m actually too busy to [...]
Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category
Surviving 2010′s Stressful Work Environment
Posted in Leadership, Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Successful Projects Are Like Living Organisms
Posted in Information Sharing, Leadership, Management, Project Management, tagged Change Management, Leadership, Process, Project Management, value on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a statistic often quoted in the business community around the world that two thirds of all projects fail to achieve their intended objectives. Usually, this is followed with a brilliant explanation as to the root cause for why they blow up on the launching pad. Then a promise comes that if we focus [...]
The New Consulting Industry: How to Get More for Less
Posted in Consulting Industry, Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Co-Authored by Jay Stuller — March 5, 2010 In a relatively quiet transformation over the past decade, the management consulting industry came apart and reformed – – in ways that corporate and institutional clients may find useful and even advantageous. For much of the 1980s and 1990s, growth rates in the business often exceeded 20 [...]
Change Management Checklist
Posted in Change Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership, tagged Change Management, checklist, value on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Effective change management is now a highly valued and accepted piece of every strategic project — providing long term sustainability and minimizing impact to the organization. Here is a quick change management checklist developed in collaboration by Kurt Johnson and Jennifer Foucher. Important elements for any successful change management effort: Mobilize leaders to drive change [...]
Leading Without Formal Authority
Posted in Leadership, Management, Project Management on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leading without authority is a true skill and art — it also might be one of the most valuable skills in the corporate world as the pace of business accelerates and traditional top-down directives dissipate. Whether you’re a manager, a frontline worker, or an independent contractor, at one time or another you’ve surely had to [...]
Capturing ROI Through Effective Change Management
Posted in Bender Consulting Update, Change Management, Project Management on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have published a new paper: Capturing ROI Through Effective Change Management Every company has fantastic strategic ideas. They spend millions on developing and justifying these ideas – yet frequently fail to capture the expected value when it’s time to execute. Well quoted statistics tell us that nearly two thirds of all strategic projects fail [...]
25 Stretch Goals for Management
Posted in Change Management, Culture, Ethics / Values, Information Sharing, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Performance Measurement, Process Improvement, Project Management, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0 on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. Attendees included progressive CEOs such as Terri Kelly from WL Gore, Vineet Nayar from HCL Technologies, and John Mackey from Whole [...]
Leading during uncertain times
Posted in Change Management, Leadership, Management, Project Management, Thought Leadership, tagged Economy, Execution, Leadership on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research consistently shows that tough economic times are the best opportunities to create separation from your competition. Companies that execute their key strategic initiatives over the next 3-5 years will get greater value than past initiatives. This is a very long article, but it presents a good snapshot in time of December 2008. In [...]
Discussion Board for Bender Consultants Launched
Posted in Bender Consulting Update, Culture, Ethics / Values, Information Sharing, Innovation, Project Management, Web 2.0 on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our continuing effort to leverage technology to increase our value to our clients, we have recently launced an internal “discussion board” for all Bender Consultants. The purpose of this discussion board is to provide a secured knowledge sharing location for our consultants. This will enable consultants working for XYZ Client to efficiently request and [...]
