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How AI Will Transform Project Management
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSteps you can take now to prepare for the future. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
ABCs of the Critical Path Method
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and... -
The Four Phases of Project Management
Project management Digital ArticlePlanning, build-up, implementation, and closeout. -
An Agile Approach to Change Management
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
Embracing Agile
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOver the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,... -
Performing a Project Premortem
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise.... -
The Agile Family Meeting
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA simple framework to manage chaos, get along better, and reduce stress. -
Lessons from the Mayo Clinic on Using Data to Improve Surgical Outcomes
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleIts neurosurgery department built a dashboard to track quality of care, negotiate contracts, and inform conversations with patients. -
A Platform Approach to Space Exploration
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePrivate companies like SpaceX treat rocket systems as platforms rather than bespoke one-off projects. -
Prioritize Risks in Project Management
Every project has risks. It's your job to understand their implications. -
A Better Approach to After-Action Reviews
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree myths that impede their proper use - and three strategies to help your team make the most of the practice. -
Four Ways to Think Like an Innovator
Innovation Digital ArticleScott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Asia-Pacific and author of The Little Black Book of Innovation, explains how to become more creative. -
They Bought In. Now They Want to Bail Out. (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleChief Technology Officer Barry Golding is meeting with Mathews & Co.'s department heads to ask for another round of investment so he can begin implementing... -
Mentor Moment: Get Comfortable with Risk
We default to what's familiar-at the cost of creativity and innovation. -
You Can Manage Construction Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAlthough construction is one of the riskiest things any company will do, upper management often ignores the risk or treats it as if it's uncontrollable.... -
The Art of Setting Expectations as a Project Manager
Communication Digital ArticleManaging stakeholder expectations is one of the most challenging parts of the job. Here are five ways to do so successfully. -
Five Ways to Measure Performance
Strategy & Execution VideoUnderstand different types of metrics and what they can tell you about performance. -
Three Keys to Effective Execution
Business communication Digital Articleby Melissa Raffoni Strategic planning gets all the cachet and all the ink, but the most creative, visionary strategic planning is useless if it isn’t translated into action. Especially now, in a sluggish economy, execution takes on greater importance. It’s what separates the companies that prosper in hard times from the ones that go under. […] -
Get Your Team to Do What It Says It's Going to Do
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt's one thing to set goals--and entirely another to get the people in your organization to actually accomplish them. To make the leap from vision to...
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Verily Life Sciences and Machine Learning
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Verily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships... -
Providian Trust: Tradition and Technology (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details A major trust company attempts to implement a major software system while simultaneously reengineering business processes. Providian Trust, a previously... -
Battling Dirty Toilets: Singapore's Final Frontiers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case, set in June 2018, chronicles the challenges that Jack Sim, self-made millionaire and founder of the World Toilet Organisation (WTO), encountered... -
TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
Too Much Alcohol at a Remote Construction Site
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In September 2014, an American expatriate project manager at High-Tech Construction Pvt. Ltd. (High-Tech) received a late-night call saying that an engineer... -
Managing IT Resources in the Context of a Strategic Redeployment: A Hydro-Quebec Case Study (A) - The Issue
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Faced with the constant pressure from internal customers, who want answers to their problems on increasingly short order, based on the best possible expertise... -
Harvest City: The Intelligent Procurement System Project
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Harvest City case describes the implementation of a cloud- and IoT-based intelligent procurement system at a new convention complex in the U.S. Midwest.... -
Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details A gifted project leader lacks significant new product development experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project... -
Indian Railways and the Move to Full Electrification: Exceeding the Global Benchmark
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Indian Railways (IR), the country's largest transporter, is considering a plan to fully electrify its network. The move will cut its fuel expenditure... -
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to 609-065 -
HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives Ebook + Tools
Strategy & Execution BookManaging a successful strategic initiative may be the key to transforming your company--and propelling your career forward. Yet running a cross-functional... -
CAN HENS SAVE DODIYA FARMS?
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2021 Ranjit Dodiya, owner of Dodiya Farms in Gujarat India, realizes crop farming brings many risks. Much of the 2018 harvest was ruined due to... -
Using Aggregate Project Planning to Link Strategy, Innovation, and the Resource Allocation Process
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Links two very useful pieces of management research--resource allocation processes as studied by Bowen and Burgelman and the aggregate project plan expounded... -
Fixing the Payment System at Alvalade XXI: A Case on IT Project Risk Management
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the implementation and subsequent failure of an innovative system installed in the bars of Alvalade XXI, the recently built football... -
Johnson & Johnson: The Case for Promotion Workbench
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Examines how Johnson & Johnson, a multidivisional consumer package goods company, develops a system to manage and measure the impact of promotional events... -
Concordia Casting Co.
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers... -
Tetra Tech EC and Risk Management
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case considers how one project-based organization overcame deterrents to strategic risk management and enabled an effective risk management process... -
Changing the Landscape at Arcane: Pushback
Management Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case W29999 -
Tour Planning at Cirque du Soleil
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Louise Murray, Vice-President of Tour Planning and Partnerships at Cirque du Soleil, has been informed that the company has received two unsolicited partnership... -
Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations.
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How AI Will Transform Project Management
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSteps you can take now to prepare for the future. -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
ABCs of the Critical Path Method
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe critical path method (CPM), one of a variety of quantitative tools for business decision-making, is a simple technique for analyzing, planning, and... -
The Four Phases of Project Management
Project management Digital ArticlePlanning, build-up, implementation, and closeout. -
Is Project Management the Right Career for You?
Career planning AdviceUse this guide to make an informed choice. -
An Agile Approach to Change Management
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
Embracing Agile
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleOver the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market,... -
Performing a Project Premortem
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn a premortem, team members assume that the project they are planning has just failed--as so many do--and then generate plausible reasons for its demise.... -
Verily Life Sciences and Machine Learning
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Verily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships... -
Providian Trust: Tradition and Technology (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details A major trust company attempts to implement a major software system while simultaneously reengineering business processes. Providian Trust, a previously...