MIS5102:Process Improvement and InnovationProject Management Wrap-Up

What do we mean by “large?”

Five Ways to “Win” at Project Management(Swanborg, 2011)

Hold leaders doubly accountable

Give suppliers more attention

Make time for face-to-face meetings

Involve your stakeholders

Find quick wins

How much of this is managing the politics, and how much of this is good

project management?

Recall the two themes of this course

Creating a “Culture of Innovation”

“Process Kills Innovation”David Richter, VP of Infrastructure Solutions at Kimberly Clark in (Mearian, 2012)

Do you agree?

Signals of change

Overshot

Undershot

Non-consumers

Non-market

Five Hot Tech “Projects” (Tynan, 2011)

Streamline your company data

Master your mobile devices

Create a crisis response team

Become a devops shop

Gain control over social media

But are they really projects? Could they be?