Time for a Sanity Check: Project Management Strategies
As a project manager, you must bring order to the chaos that is often close at hand in the form of recommendations, ideas or actions that can …
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Tips for Project Managers: Analyzing Roles and Relationships
Considering formal and informal organization structure is part of your due diligence. So the question is, what value can this information provide you …
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Amazon and Whole Foods: Project Management Data Points
This article looks at a potentially very valuable asset of Whole Foods – the stores as data points. How Amazon might leverage the data, whether this …
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Amazon/Whole Foods and Project Management: What Conflicts May Occur?
Whole Foods is known as an upscale, higher end (i.e. more expensive) provider of groceries, whereas Amazon is the ultimate efficient provider (i.e. …
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Delivery Points in Project Management: The Amazon/Whole Foods Merger Example
One facet of the Amazon – Whole Foods merger is that Amazon is acquiring a large number of ideal delivery points. This article discusses these …
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Disruptive Strategic Projects That May Result from Amazon Buying Whole Foods
The grocery industry has experienced intense change and competition in recent years, but has hit a tipping point with the disruptive merger of Amazon …
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Making the Most of the Pareto Principle in Project Management
80:20 thinking is not just a once and done thing. You can apply it over and over again at multiple levels, a bit like peeling an onion. It is at these …
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Project Management Prioritization Using the Pareto Principle
It’s easy to imagine how you can use 80:20 thinking to prioritize. How can you leverage 80:20 thinking to manage not only what matters most, but also …
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Using 80:20 Thinking to Be More Effective in Project Management
The 80:20 rule applies in virtually every situation in the universe. It’s very useful to identify the 20 percent and the 80 percent, but what do you …
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Using the Pareto Principal to Find Work-Life Balance
Using this alternative 80:20 thinking, you make an acceptable compromise with yourself and make a trade-off between approaching things one way versus …
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