507 ViewsIn modern times, organizations must oversee projects within ever more complicated environments, ones that are motivated by regulatory changes and business restructuring. Effective project management professionals are able to realize projects under these challenging conditions. To do so, they must employ successful project management practices. Here’s how to build project, program and portfolio management
539 ViewsPredictability through improvisation – what project management can learn from jazz. Rob Tieman is the Director of the Project Management Office at the Virginia Department of Transportation. Gerald Leonard is a Strategic PMO Advisor for the government, Juilliard-trained musician, and author of Workplace Jazz. Together with Pete, they explore how insights from jazz have
610 ViewsThe future of work is all about change, and it’s time to recognize that “normal” is no longer a thing. While new companies and startup organizations usually embrace the notion of constant change, major enterprises around the world are discovering that they must do the same. For instance, companies like Shopify, Twitter and Facebook
608 ViewsThese days, entrepreneurs and self-employed people have become the latest business buzzwords. If you’re not a business owner, how does this talk apply to you? Even if you never plan to start your own business, developing an entrepreneurial spirit can enhance your productivity at work. It can help you develop the leadership skills you need to
605 ViewsFrom cars that drive themselves to the ability to lock your home after you’ve left, artificial intelligence, or AI, has advanced quickly. It’s transitioned from something only imagined in sci-fi movies and books to a reality. Scientists from the University of Oxford have been researching artificial intelligence, and they’re predicting that by 2024, the technology
651 ViewsFrom a young age, human beings can quickly identify objects and sort them into classes. Think of the different makes, models and colors of four-wheeled vehicles that you can almost immediately classify as cars. Consider the wide variety of cats and dogs that you can identify at a glance. In less than a second,
464 ViewsFor companies to create a healthy culture, they must have good leadership. When good leaders are in charge, they hire the right people to form high performing teams. Companies with teams that perform well achieve top results. Here’s how to build a high performance team through a healthy workplace culture. 1. Establish a Clear
459 ViewsAn important part of management is putting customers first. Doing so improves customer experience and increases profits. To put customers first, you’ll need to make decisions about what to offer and when to offer it. The key to determining this is to find out what they want. Once you know, you can turn customer feedback
576 ViewsHarness the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Boost Your Productivity Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed today’s workplaces. A recent report in the Harvard Business Review found that AI has become “mainstream technology” in over 80% of businesses, and 55% of companies sped up this trend during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artificial intelligence benefits
553 ViewsArtificial intelligence, or AI, is a collection of several different technologies that are designed to work together for the purpose of empowering a machine to do things that humans do like sense, understand and take action. There are many different definitions of AI because it is more than one thing. AI and the Human
