Project and Change Management Simplified eBook

In a recent podcast, Project and Change Management Simplified, Bob Lewis president of IT Catalysts discussed his specialty project and change management.  This is a transcription of the podcast. Since 1996, when he started his “Survival Guide” column in InfoWorld, Bob has been in the forefront of a guerrilla movement in how businesses should design Read More …

Project and Change Management Simplified

“When employees resist change, it isn’t because they’re stupid. It’s because they’re smart,” says Bob Lewis. Bob is the president of IT Catalysts and author of Bare Bones Project Management: What you can’t not do and Bare Bones Change Management: What you shouldn’t not do. With titles like this, how could you not buy these Read More …

Why Projects Fail? – Dilbert

This is a video George Carr uploaded to YouTube and used in a lesson about “Why IT Projects fail” – told through the medium of Dilbert. Most of our careers or at least mine has been spent in managing projects. In the past several years, it seems that project management is taking a significant shift Read More …

Lean Planning: We started off Looking at Work

My guest for this week’s Busines901 Podcast is Gregory A. Howell, co-founder and managing director of the Lean Construction Institute (LCI), a non-profit organization devoted to production management research in design and construction. Howell brings 35 years of construction industry project management, consulting and university-level teaching experience to LCI. An excerpt from the podcast: Greg Read More …

Lean Supply Chain Thoughts

Paul Myerson was my guest on the Business901 Podcast, Extending Lean Supply Chain Thinking. Paul recently authored Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management, a practical guide that will assist you in leveraging your improvements to both vendors and customers. Along the way, you may pick a few other Lean Tips to improve operations in general. Read More …

Driving Profit through People and Processes

This is a transcription of the Business901 Podcast, People & Process Drive Profit Podcast with Vivian Hairston Blade, Founder, President & CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting, LLC (EiGL Consulting, LLC) based in Louisville, KY. Open publication Vivian is a recognized expert, keynote speaker, trainer and executive coach in the principles of Customer Experience, Read More …