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Becoming a successful project organization
Tread lightly; take an incremental approach to implementing project management practices.
Processor / December 2006   PDF

Complimentary Project Management Medicine
Dereck Bell, an instructor with ESI International writes about the complimentary aspects of PRINCE2™ and the Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI PMBOK®).
BSC Yearly Book / November 2006   PDF

Poor requirements-definition equals ICT failure
Business analysis expert Glenn Brûlé says internal centres of business excellence could help ICT deliver what the business wants.
Computerworld / November 2006

Everybody's a Critic:
There’s nothing wrong with critiquing a team member’s performance. Just make sure you offer a way to improve.
PM Network / October 2006   PDF

Change Culture: Opening closed minds can stimulate change and help create a constructive corporate culture
With supply chains stretched further and further across the globe today, logistics employees – from warehouse workers to design engineers and supply chain executives – and business partners – including outsourced manufacturing, warehousing, and/or distribution providers – are also spread out across the world.
Insight Magazine / September 2006   PDF

Global Teams: SCM's New Workforce
With supply chains stretched further and further across the globe today, logistics employees – from warehouse workers to design engineers and supply chain executives – and business partners – including outsourced manufacturing, warehousing, and/or distribution providers – are also spread out across the world.
inboundlogistics.com / June 2006    PDF

International Bridge Builders
The successful executive or project manager in a global environment realizes that his or her success is based on the fact that they simply like this kind of work. They enjoy meeting new people and traveling to places they have never been before. Such a person is a kind of explorer who thrives in the face of uncertainty, who is flexible and who has the necessary diplomatic skills to build coalitions across time zones and cultures.
Global Corporate Xpansion / May 2006

How to Become (or Manage) a Successful Business Analyst
Completing information technology projects on time and on budget is both essential and a struggle for most organizations. Business analysts can help shepherd projects through to successful results by gathering requirements from a business area and presenting them in ways that are understandable and actionable by the organization.
Project Times / May 2006   PDF

The Analysis Business
More organizations are integrating business analysis into their project management practices. What does a business analyst bring to a project, and how can these skills and responsibilities best work in concert with the project manager's?
Projects@Work / March 2006   PDF

GSA awards contract training deals
"Providing the right training represents a major step forward in the government's ability to strategically manage our contracting workforce," said Emily Murphy, GSA's chief acquisition officer.
Federal Computer Week / March 2006

Contracting Courses Earn Equivalency Authorization
ESI International, a provider of contract management, project management, and business analysis training, announced that three of its contract management courses have earned equivalency authorization from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).
govpro.com / March 2006

Success in Sourcing Management
Global enterprises have spent decades buying, selling and managing contracted services, from isolated commodities to sophisticated IT operations. As the number and complexity of such sourcing relationships continues to grow every year, multinational corporations are tasked with effectively managing the performance of these contracts — if they are to achieve lasting business success.
Global Services / March 2006

Texas Child Support Division Develops Contracting Office
Working with ESI, Hoffman and his team developed the framework for the CSD's Contracting Office. They built the team around the typical contract lifecycle, creating individual business units for each stage of the contracting process.
Global Services / March 2006

Project Management: Techniques for Adaptive Action
Managers, executives and probably even some CLOs have long viewed project management as a tactical, operational endeavor, with which they have had mixed success. But a quiet revolution has been taking place over the past decade that has propelled project management to the top of many CEO’s agendas. The reason is simple: Strategic objectives are realized through projects. If we can’t do projects well, we won’t meet our goals.
Chief Learning Officer / March 2006

Three ESI Courses Earn DAU Equivalency Authorization
ESI International, a provider of contract management, project management and business analysis training, announced that three of its contract-management courses have earned equivalency authorization from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).
Chief Learning Officer / January 2006

Powertrain
In preparing for a high-stakes project – the redesign of a best-selling car – VW Brasil revved up an ambitious training program to open up lines of communication, shape up project management methods and build up a team culture supported by a new PMO.
Projects@Work / January 2006   PDF