The secret of business success is not who you know. It’s what you know. The Wall Street Journal Advertisement The future of work consists of learning a living. Marshall McLuhan, Futurist If our people develop faster than a competitor’s people, then they’re worth more. James M. Biggar, CEO, Nestle Enterprises Your work should be an …
Customers want more, faster, cheaper, and better Product life cycles are halved and shrinking further Brand U’s relish challenge People must do more, faster, with less Cross functional virtual project teams do more work Work is core-processed or projectized Project manager replaces middle manager Work is chunked into projects and sub-projects Pay is great
Tom Peters, the guru’s guru, declares that if you, the Brand U, don’t spend up to 70% of your time on projects, you’re sushi. Projects give you visibility, wide experience, and opportunities. Tom Peters has capitalized on the trend that we’ll all be itinerant free agents. He’s trademarked the phrase, ‘The Power of You.’TM Smart. …
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In the projectized model, work gets done differently. A project is still organized around a lead person, who may be called project leader instead of manager. The project leader facilitates more than manages the project. While a project may have started with one person who had the vision and authority to push onwards, one-person management …
Reciprocal promises among project stakeholders are honored. People and resources assigned to a project are not arbitrarily moved. Left hand actively shares information with the right hand. Team members actively search for ways to work with each other amicably. Each team member’s deliverables are as important as another’s and each party works to ensure …
Little administrative support Possibility of changing priorities Multiple work flow paths Simultaneous and conflicting projects Control and power conflicts High overhead due to parallel costs Additional organizational layers Group think, excessive management, or decision making by consensus Focus on process, instead of products and customer requirements Multiple and maybe conflicting policies and procedures Communication and …
An orchestra is another favorite Brand U metaphor for organizational and project excellence. The orchestra is a group of Brand U’s, each of whom is gifted, has a unique talent, and a distinct way of delivering music to satisfied customers. Usually, each player is a superstar Brand U in his or her right. Each musician …
The orchestra is composed of different instruments and sections. This is very similar to any office or factory with its functional groups, professionals, processes, and teams. The goal of each musical section, whether it’s woodwinds, strings, or brass is to consistently blend with other musical sections. Each Brand U professional may also add his or …
As we’ve discussed, Brand U work if often described in terms of theatrical, orchestral, or movie productions. For example, there are multiple stakeholders in a theatrical or movie projects. The director is the project manager responsible for getting the job done on time and on budget. The producer is the project sponsor concerned with securing …
Software and the Internet are today’s hot Brand U projects. Software development is hot and sexy. These software projects range from small projects to enterprise wide applications. Small projects may require three people to work for three months. Or, mega-projects can occupy hundreds of people for years such as writing millions of line of code …