Articles on Consulting

I just read Tom Catalini's "Everybody Knows IT, But They Still Need Help" where he wrote: People know IT now. But they also need help. That’s not

As you take on the role of coach/mentor/teacher, both you and your clients will benefit.

Ian Brodie wrote a nice piece last week titled Why "Finding the Pain" is a bad strategy that resonated with me. The approach that many companies and

Lately, I've been having a lot of knee pain.  For the last few months, its been constant and regular and seemed to get worse when I would spend a lot of

You Too Can Be a Strategy Consultant: Three Secret Tools Revealed by Charles H. Green on Trust Matters Quote: The art of general management and strategic

Kristen over at Cheetah Learning, one of the best Project Management Training groups out there sent me a link to this YouTube video.....I love it! Why do

"I hate consultants." When I heard those words spill out of my lunch companion's mouth as soon as we sat down, I knew it would be a long lunch meeting.

What Human Business And the Social Web Are About by Chris Brogan on chrisbrogan.com The Insider Threat: What CIOs Need To Know by Dr. Jim Anderson on The

How to SWOT away Strategic Planning by Steve Neiderhauser The Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Bob Gourley on CTOvision.com A Tendency to Blame

“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental

What happens when you create the best strategic plan in the world but don't have a plan to implement it? Lots of wheel spinning and very little progress.

Paul Dunay over at Buzz Marketing for Technology wrote a post titled "Sin of Inclusion" that pointed me to some commentary on the IT Services Marketing

McKinsey has recently released a report titled "IT's unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results" that shows that there is still a lot of work to do

According to a research report released by The Hackett Group, and reported by Financial Week, they don't. The Financial Week article, titled "Customers

As mentioned here and here, I presented a paper titled "Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome" at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas

Just a reminder...the 2nd Annual University of Texas Project Management Symposium is today and tomorrow (August 18 & 19). Yours truly will be

John P. Kotter, author of "Leading Change" and "Our Iceberg is Melting" is set to release a new book titled "a sense of urgency" (release date September 3

Recently, while reading a book on Organizational Change and Project Management, I noticed a disturbing pattern. The book I was reading discusses the

A recent study by researchers at University of Michigan and University of Richmond shows that outsourcing/offshoring certain aspects of your business can

I was browsing the local Half Price Books and noticed a book titled "The Program Management Office: Establishing, Managing And Growing the Value of a PMO"

I've been holding off on this announcement until I finished the paper (mainly to make sure I actually finished it!). I'll be speaking at University of

I just finished reading The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership by Jack Ferraro....not a bad book. In section two of his

Interesting study released by McKinsey has just been released titled "How companies respond to competitors: A McKinsey Global Survey." The study, which is

This is a guest post written by Heather Johnson, who regularly writes on the topic of career exploration. See her byline at the end of this article for

Over the last few years I've started noticing a trend toward specialization within the field of project management. These specializations seem to break

Organization Alignment seems like one of those 'touchy feely' things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it's actually quite relevant

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. To read the entire article, download the PDF titled "Strategic Project Management."