CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Skills Deficit
PM Career Opportunity
Future of Project Management
Project Manager:  Dinasauer or Beacon
PMP Training, Meaning, Alternatives

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0808 - Summary/Objective
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080901 - Followed up work at ref SDS 37 line 100, ref SDS 36 line 23, SUBJECTS
Reengineer Enterprise Management KM AI Project Management U   Tech to
Business Process Reengineer Enterprise Management KM AI Project Manag
Hammer Reengineering Similar but Different from Deming TQM

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120602 - Reengineering, Reengineering
120603 -
120604 - Follow up ref SDS 15 0001.
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120606 - Received ref OF 14 0001 explaining limitations of "reengineering" and
120607 - the need to define and or implement it differently.
120608 - ..
120609 - Introduces new term...
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120611 -
120612 -                    Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
120613 -
120614 - ...that is described as implementing ideas advanced by Hammer and
120615 - Champy in their book "Reengineering the Corporation," ref OF 14 WA4I
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120617 -       [On 010321 BPR, project management, TQM failed, so assimilated
120618 -       into KM, explained in POIMS. ref SDS 47 YF7J
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120620 -       [On 020608 BPR is identified as 1st generation of KM.
120621 -       ref SDS 48 KJ6G
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120623 - Hammer's ideas on reengineering and Deming's ideas on TQM were
120624 - compared in an article reviewed on 950909. ref SDS 15 7499  The
120625 - article explains "reengineering" is accomplished by hiring experts to
120626 - investigate and improve work flow to improve productivity. In practice
120627 - this largely became a rationale for firing people, also, called
120628 - downsizing. ref SDS 15 P25L  An example on 950705 shows an IT company
120629 - proposing to replace project managers with lessor skilled team leaders
120630 - by using computers to improve communication. ref SDS 11 7409
120631 - ..
120632 - Growing dissatisfaction with BPR failure is disclosed citing
120633 - statistics indicating BPR failed to meet expectations of better
120634 - productivity and earnings. ref OF 14 YB5H
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120636 - Hammer is cited in an article on 940620 for listing the reasons
120637 - BPR has failed, ref OF 14 QP8L .....
120638 -
120639 -  •  Lack of executive commitment
120640 -
120641 -  •  Lack of knowledge about what they're doing
120642 -
120643 -  •  Lack of knowledge on how to proceed. In other words, lack of
120644 -     project management.
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120646 - The article does not expressly state what is entailed by BPR, but
120647 - proposes using project managment to strengthen use of BPR. ref OF 14
120648 - MN6N
120649 - ..
120650 - A another article in same issue by Milan Moriavec also discusses
120651 - reengineering.  Milan did some presentations for PMI at Asilomar in
120652 - 1994, and later at a PMI dinner meeting.
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SUBJECTS
Virtual Corporation

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130402 - Virtual Organizations
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130404 - Received article at ref OF 18 line 10 explaining efforts for people
130405 - to work at home.
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SUBJECTS
Competition, Cooperation, Resistance to
Leadership & Change, 930119
Communications, Partnering
Feel Good Management
Facilitator

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190802 - Communicate to Build Concensus
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190804 - This is an article, ref OF 20 line 10, on leadership and need to build
190805 - concensus through communication to achieve effective change.
190806 -
190807 - It describes the "partnering", facilitator methods used in Ron Buck's
190808 - Forum, ref SDS 10 line 80, and also at ref SDS 10 line 177, as a way
190809 - to improve understanding and follow through, and describes it as:
190810 -
190811 -                     Concur Sessions
190812 -
190813 -     .., ref OF 20 line 32.
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190815 - There is discussion of leaving personal agendas at the door, ref OF 20
190816 - line 43, and of breakthroughs on the 2nd day, ref OF 20 line 44.
190817 - ..
190818 - The author's descirbe a "magic moment" when concensus is
190819 - achieved with the group working as a team. ref OF 20 line 57.
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190821 - The weakness in these methods is lack of consistent means to implement
190822 - communications daily and to follow up.
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SUBJECTS
Managing Managers
People Skills
Executive Training, 930726
Power & Politics, Managing

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230702 - Executive Management, Politics in Organizations
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230704 - Received ref OF 27 line 10 which is a review of a book on Power and
230705 - Politics, and implications for management.  It relates to the notion
230706 - of there being a distinction between leadership and managing.
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