Monthly Archives: May 2013

Traditional Versus Open Best Practices Versus Innovative Initiatives

Quite a bit of confusion can be observed in the field of best practices. While some groups argue that best practices need to be better applied, other groups argue that the same best practices are optimized for a world gone … Continue reading

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Are you a leader?

We all know the feeling you get when you achieve results that matter to you. A feeling of “yes!”, happiness, and satisfaction. Unfortunately, sometimes things do not happen as planned. How many times have you tried to initiate a new … Continue reading

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We Selected the Simple Solution. The Complex Solution Became a Worldwide Standard – Part III

In Part I of this series, we identified lessons learned, and in Part II, we examined why projects were restarted and failed for the same reasons. In this final section, we explore how project success rates can be improved and … Continue reading

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We Selected the Simple Solution. The Complex Solution Became a Worldwide Standard – Part II

Part I identified lessons learned from a complex challenge. One lesson was that projects failed and were restarted for the same reasons. Part II explores how project failure for the same reason became normal. Until the mid-1990s, the data centres … Continue reading

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