Posts Tagged “business outcomes”

Kind and Cruel

by jed simms on October 27, 2011

The human body is both kind and cruel in that, for example, in the event of an emergency it will allow us to make a mad dash for safety (kind) and punish us later when our muscles seize up (cruel). (…)

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Sliding to disaster

by jed simms on August 18, 2011

A tool gaining popularity is Rob Thomsett’s sliders. The idea is simple: there are six sliders/options that measure project success with a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high). At the outset of the project the business is asked to (…)

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Watching

by jed simms on April 15, 2010

They say that there are three types of manager – those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that ask, “What happened?” I recently watched a governance team in action (or should that be ‘inaction’?) The (…)

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The business case 3 – What is the Value Proposition?

by jed simms on September 29, 2009

Central to the business case is the value proposition — what value shall your organization get from investing in this project? This may sound obvious but the value proposition is often largely missing in most business cases because they’re the (…)

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