The Open Innovation Bridge

Personal networking across organizational and enterprise boundaries enables open innovation to flourish.

Best Open Innovators

Nominate companies that innovate across and beyond traditional enterprise boundaries to the Open 100. ...

... "The Open 100 competition was born out of NESTA’s search for the world’s top 100 open innovation companies. Now we are opening it up to the public to find who the best open innovators really are. " ...

Via OpenBusiness: The Open 100

Open Innovation Requires Collaborative Culture

The director of the Colworth Science Park in the UK discusses the role that collaboration has in creating an environment of innovation. In this campus, academia, corporations, and experts are integrated and focus on the processes that enable ideas to be commercialized. ...

... "We believe that science is a contact sport, so we must develop the right facilities for researchers to interact on a formal and informal basis to create an environment where collaboration and networking are part of the campus culture. " ...

Via Business Weekly: Sally Ann Forsyth

Virtual Project Huddle Room

Crowdsource Collaboration Breaks Barrier

BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos breaks the Netflix barrier through collaboration model. ...

... "Today our team submitted our solution to the Netflix Prize, resulting in a score of .8558, which corresponds to an improvement over Netflix Cinematch algorithm of 10.05%. This is the first submission in the competition to break the 10% barrier and sets off a 30 day period where all competitors are invited to submit their best and final solutions. " ...

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CFO CIO Collaboration

How best to bridge the gap between CFO and CIO perspectives? Well-written business cases. Balance of tangible and business-relevant measures. A functioning governance process. Staffed governing council(s). A business-savvy IT strategic story. What else? ...

... "ROI doesn't always capture the true value of an IT project, but CFOs pretty much insist on some sort of ROI calculation. Suggesting other sorts of metrics that measure the full impact of a technology rollout might get the CFO in the CIO's corner. " ...

Via CIOZone Forum, Discussion Thread: Collaboration Mechanism across CIO/CTO/CFO

Wave Communications in Projects

Google demonstrates its Wave communication product and you can see its powerful applicability to collaborating project teams. ...

Project Managers Seek Points of View through Collaboration to Gain Strength

In a challenging phase of your project? Not sure what scenario will play out? Feel the weight on your shoulders as project manager? Hold steady on the tiller. And, open up and collaborate, per Bernanke, to educate yourself and your team on the opposing points of view. ...

... "Bernanke argued that a spirit of open-mindedness and intellectual modesty has driven his response to the financial crisis. " ...

Via Washingtonpost: Emerge Stronger

BC Commencement Address.

Efficient Enterprise Servers

The EPA is engaging industry in collaboration on revision of its EnergyStar specification for servers. The final draft is posted here (PDF). Comments on this revision are due by May 8 (this Friday). ...

... "Enterprise Servers: EPA is currently developing a new product specification for enterprise servers. Partners and other interested parties who would like to participate in this process are encouraged ... " ...

Via US Environmental Protection Agency: ENERGY STAR Specification for Enterprise Servers

Virtual Collaboration to Engage Your Team

President Obama creates a virtual event that spurs questions, debate and collaboration. Nice leverage of technology to create dialogue. Here's a sample of the discussion on the topic of Green Jobs and Energy: 324,994 votes on 7,442 questions from 20,104 people. ...

... "The idea that a president would want to talk directly to the American people has been around since the days of FDR, but what was new about Obama's online town hall is that it encouraged members of the public to interact with each other ... " ...

Via CNN: Obama Town Hall

Project Financials

Expect to collaborate more with your counterparts in finance to review in-flight projects for cancellation and to develop more creative ways to finance new investments. ...

... "There is a different style of IT project evolving. People are looking for the cash implications to be less onerous on the business, but that doesn’t mean that they are shelving projects. " ...

Via Accountancy Age: Funding IT

Open Door Innovation

Here's interesting approach to cross-fertilizing innovation practices by swapping employees. In this case, Google and Procter&Gamble, both powerhouses in their respective industries, look to learn from one another. ...

... "It’s another phase in open-door innovation that companies are embracing to gain an edge over their competitors in difficult times. Open door innovation is a term coined by Kyle Couch, Vice President Client Learning Experience at The Beacon Group. " ...

Via PRWeb: Employees Are Shown the Door

Project Manager Creates Collaborative Relationship

Healthcare continues its information transformation and progressive project management practices can accelerate the change. In this case, the project manager collaborated with the target department to understand the business challenges and the process capability --- creating the proper working relationship for a transformation journey. ...

... "Make cross-departmental understanding a priority - During implementation, our IT project manager sat in the HIM department until he fully understood our daily frustrations, processes and challenges. " ...

Via ADVANCE: Lessons Learned

Global Teams Interact through Reaction

Fun exercise builds collaboration and innovation across globally distributed teams ... a nice ice-breaker if you are starting up a global project. ...


IDEO Global Chain Reaction from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.

Collaborative Sustainability

SAP takes a collaborative approach to developing its strategies for sustainability, as it publishes its first update on the topic. ...

... "The first challenge in preparing this report was to decide what exactly to report on. It is not so obvious for a software company on the basis of risk alone. But once we started to engage with stakeholders over the past 18 months or so it became really clear that what our stakeholders are most interested in is the solutions SAP can provide to other businesses to become more sustainable. " ...

Via SAP Sustainability Blog: First Report

Virtual is Green

Managing a project virtually? Team dispersed globally? Travelling less? Team wearing pajamas and fuzzy slippers, yet project remains on-schedule? Using collaborative tools, such as team workspaces, teleconferences, virtual whiteboards, instant messaging, web seminars, etc.? You are enabling sustainability in your enterprise. Do this across your project portfolio and there is a tangible payback. ...

... "Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for collaboration that offers green benefits for end users and IT departments by enabling significant reductions in travel and commuting. " ...

Via : Software for a Greener World

Collaboration Services

IBM offers a set of services to help an enterprise take advantage of collaboration through social networking. The services include support of the adoption of these technologies to create value through expertise location and leverage. ...

... "Adoption - helps introduce collaborative and social networking technologies to an organization through online collaborative events such as company-wide collaborative events (based on IBM's Innovation Jams) or smaller departmental events. Provides social networking analysis, identifying patterns of interaction and the key topic experts and enablers within the organization. " ...

Via IBM: Services for Collaboration

IBM Updates Lotus Notes with Web 2.0 Capabilities for Global Collaboration

Fortune 1000 companies that leverage IBM software for email and collaboration will begin to see Web 2.0 capability introduced into near term upgrades of the Lotus Notes product. Lotus Notes applications can be built with user interfaces that deploy AJAX and style sheets, while content can be delivered through subscription to RSS or ATOM feeds. ...

... "Included in 8.0.1 is a powerful Web 2.0 feature, My Widgets, that can be used to execute actions such as retrieving real time flight arrival information simply by clicking on a flight number in an email. This is accomplished through a new technology called Live Text that can identify patterns and phrases and associate them with an appropriate widget. Users can drag and drop, or import, various kinds of widgets such as Google Gadgets, feeds, and Web pages or their own custom programs onto their new widgets panel in the Lotus Notes sidebar. Planned for delivery with Lotus Domino 8.0.1, is IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, which will provide automatic, real time wireless replication of email including attachments, calendar, contacts, personal journal and the to-do list for Microsoft Windows Mobile devices. " ...

Via IBM: Lotus Collaboration Software Roadmap

Next Gen Collaboration Research Supports Global Teams

IBM will invest in research to deliver solutions that enable the global collaboration of virtual project teams. The company sees collaboration, communication and visualization as capabilities to engage the next generation workforce, who are used to these advanced capabilities in their personal pursuits. ...

... "The challenges of globalization are forcing companies to become more nimble, using an increasingly geographically-dispersed and virtual workforce to remain competitive. In the world of software development, this means 24x7 collaboration with specialized teams around the globe to pick up where another left off. " ...

Via IBM: Innovations Support Global Collaboration

Service is a Science, Study and Improve It

Interesting move in the global landscape ... Singapore collaborates with IBM through a network of universities and industry partners to innovate in service management. Education in the science of services is planned. ...

... "The collaboration aims to develop a new breed of service scientists and service entrepreneurs who understand service systems, are trained to enable efficient and systematic approaches to service delivery, and serve as catalysts for service innovation in organisations and for various industry sectors. " ...

Via IBM: Service Science Initiative in Singapore

Interactive Surfaces for Teams

Continuing along the idea generation train of thought ... Check out this interactive brainstorming surface. ...

Networking for Project Innovation

Neat concept for creating portfolios of work and collaborating for innovation. ...

... "Join or create groups of creative professionals, gathered around interests, to share content and ideas. " ...

Via Behance: Network

Link Innovators for Happy Surprises

You can't force innovation. But, you can stack the deck in your favor. Link creative people together. Create a sense of purpose. Sprinkle in some data and information. Provide some funding. Step aside. Check back at stage-gates to see how things are progressing. ...

... "Creating a network of innovators who can identify trends and connect important dots across the business will create value on an even broader scale, and may bring some new insights and opportunities back into your team or function. " ...

Via Innovate on Purpose: Managing innovation

Global Perspective Google China

Google's research leader provides insights on developments in China for the company, where virtual teams and collaboration enable success. ...

BlackBerry, The Project Manager's Best Friend, Just Got Better

Get this for your project managers ...

IT Org Model Seeks to Integrate Distributed Teams

Government reorganizes IT leadership in order to increase performance on key projects and initiatives. ...

... "The idea is for the governor's respected Chief Information Officer Michael Locatis to forge better collaboration and expertise-sharing among information technology teams now scattered across 20 agencies ... " ...

Via GovExec: Reorganizing for IT Project Success

Real Time Communications: Twitter

New internet communication service, Twitter, morphs as users create unintended consequences. Running a global, virtual project. Need real-time info and asynchronous updates. Check it out. ...

... "What was once initially designed to answer the question: what are you doing?, has turned into a free-form communications service where people are having burts of shorthand conversations ... " ...

Via Logic+Emotion: Twitter Love + Hate

Child's Play: Project Management Lessons From the Classroom

Ah, there's someone else that finds project management lessons in everything. It's a sickness I tell you.

Elizabeth Harrin has an article on Projects@Work about project management lessons she extracted from teaching a group of nine year olds in Paris. Whether it's the importance of giving clear instructions, understanding your stakeholders' environment, or negotiating win-win solutions, everything you need to manage a project you probably learned in kindergarten.

Read on...

http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/Articles/235373.cfm

NASA Google Collaborate: Mars Map

Google and NASA collaborate to make more of the NASA content available to the public. If you have ever used GoogleMaps for directions, check out GoogleMars ...

... "Ames and Google also have vowed to work together to solve complex computing problems, including large-scale data management. " ...

Via Yahoo! News: Google NASA Deal

Virtualization: IBM Intel Collaborate

IBM, Intel collaborate to further the advancement of virtualization technology. The two companies are working on benchmarks, sizing tools, selection guides, etc. to simplify the process of virtualization design for IT managers. ...

... "One of the first tools to emerge from this joint initiative is a new virtualization benchmarking methodology called vConsolidate that runs multiple instances of consolidated database, mail, Web and JAVA(1) workloads in multiple virtual CPU partitions on Intel-based System x servers to simulate real-world server performance in a typical environment. IBM and Intel are contributing the vConsolidate methodology to an industry standards body for consideration. ... " ...

Via IBM:IBM and Intel Initiative Accelerates Virtualization on Multi-Processor Servers

Project Effectiveness: Intermingling ...

Tom shares good advice on using easy, controllable factors, such as co-location of project team members to increase productivity. He cites interesting data on the decrease in collaboration as distance increases (measured in feet). ...

... "There's a ton of evidence, including my own research, that demonstrates, for instance, that intermingling project teammates from various functions is an astonishingly potent device for increasing project effectiveness. " ...

Via Tom Peters: The Simple Tools of Behavior Modification ...

Elusive IT Project Value: Book Tells How To Achieve It

I've just finished reading an excellent book on achieving value from IT projects, The Information Paradox: Realizing the Business Benefits of Information Technology, by John Thorp and the Fujitsu Consulting's Center for Strategic Leadership.

Thorp and company claim that today's IT projects are evolving more and more from simple automation efforts to complex "information" initiatives, and even further---to complete business transformation initiatives. This calls for a different approach and requires IT and Business collaboration.

As the book points out, the classic "let's buy a product and assume it comes with automatic benefits" approach doesn't work in today's more complex arena (and in fact it probably never did). In a complex business transformation initiative, trying to assume that an IT project in isolation will deliver value is wishful thinking.

The book also points out the four critical dimensions of complexity, which it says are blind spots in traditional thinking:

1) Linkage - to other related initiatives and to business strategy
2) Reach - those areas of organizational structure or supply chain processes that may be impacted by the change, or that need revisiting in order to bring about the benefits
3) People- those affected by the change and/or that need to be engaged (i.e. proactive change leadership and stakeholder analysis)
4) Time - the time it takes to manage the overall initiative, including the above dimensions, to fully realize the benefits (most companies grossly underestimate this)

Unfortunately, many IT projects just focus on on-time and on-budget delivery (resulting in a situation that the book describes as, "the operation was successful but the patient died"). Thorp and company refer to this as "investment myopia."

Instead, a committment to business value, ongoing process improvements, frequent iterations of delivery, and better project selection techniques are key. Most of all, we need to be aware of the blind spots mentioned above.

The book goes on to describe how a system of program management, portfolio management, and governance, with a focus on benefits realization, can bring about results. It also cautions about the dangers of treating selections as a one-time annual event, making selections in isolation (instead of in the context of investment programs), and not looking at all aspects of value (i.e. going beyond simple financial measures).

I highly recommend the book for those struggling with determining the value of IT, or trying to bring about collaborative change in their organizations. If you look at any major successful transformation, it was brought about by a marriage of technology, business process, and organizational change, and with full backing from senior management. This book can go a long way toward helping make this happen.

PMO Success Story: A.G. Edwards Case Study

There's an excellent article in CIO Magazine this month showing how A.G. Edwards reinvented its PMO to bring their projects to an 88% success rate (from about 50% originally).

Some key lessons:

• They created a 25-step project management high-level framework of just the high level activities common to all projects. They didn't inflict a detailed application development methodology and left the "how" flexible, as long as the "what" was satisfied. At a more detailed level, they used Primavera for project tracking and dashboard metrics.
  
• They provided leadership training to boost the confidence of their PMs
  
• They moved the project managers from the PMO to the functional areas to encourage collaboration and better align the PMs with the business.
  
• They offered project planning services to assist the distributed project managers with using the new framework effectively (allowing them to use the planning tool of their choice, be it Excel, MS/Word, or a whiteboard). The 25 framework touchpoints, however, are common to all projects for cross-project comparison purposes (I assume enabled in Primavera).
  
• They redefined "success" as "projects that deliver business value." This gives customer satisfaction and business value even greater priority than being on-time and on-budget (note: they still improved their schedule and budget statistics anyway).
  
  This is the essence of the new model and bears repeating. The customer defines success. Under this model, it's quite possible to have a project that is late and over-budget and seen as a raving sucess.
  
• They tirelessly met with stakeholders in individual and group settings to offer the benefits and ask for their support. They used a subtle soft-sell approach with the "bad actors."
  
• They first involved the PMs receptive to new ideas as part of a pilot and them used them to "spread the gospel"
  
• They measured success rates and publicized them in quarterly reports to senior management.

These are all powerful and valid ways to make a PMO successful, and are philosophically aligned with the Service Oriented-Project Management (SOPM) model I've been developing. In this case, these changes collectively served to boost IT's credibility at A.G Edwards significantly.

Here's the full article. Don't miss the sidebar "8 Steps for Improving Project Management."

When Failure Is Not an Option - Editorial - CIO

ERP Justification: Is it Worth it?

There's a discussion on IT Toolbox about the benefits and disadvantages of ERP solutions that is worth examining.

Some key points this jogged for me (and a few I've added) are:

• ERP improves enterprise visibility, collaboration, and integration. That's the chief selling point of ERP. If that's what your organization needs, ERP sounds like the right solution.
  
• ERP does NOT typically improve individual efficiencies, and should not be sold as such. It's important to set the right expectations up front on just what an ERP system will offer the company and what it will not offer most individuals.
  
• ERP can help achieve cost reduction IF it's replacing many manual steps.
  
• It's not a bad idea to offer SOME predetermined set of key pet reports to decrease resistance. Aside from that, scope should be kept tight.
  
• It's important to have someone running the ERP project with the clout to say no when everyone wants to retain their current way of working (getting past the "I've always done it that way" syndrome).
  
• It's important to ask: Does the company want and need to operate as an enterprise? In most cases, the answer is yes.

However, until the organization reaches "enterprise maturity," chances are it won't realize the full benefits of ERP. On the other hand, an ERP system can help facilitate an organization's maturity in that direction, if that's where they choose to go.

Just some food for thought. I'd be interested in others' experiences and thoughts on the topic.

ERP benefits and disadvantages - ITtoolbox Groups

IT Strategy: Enable Knowledge Based Economy ...

Government minister sees knowledge work as the key to economic development and creates IT strategy that supports the creation, collaboration, and deployment of knowledge to drive economic growth. The plan emphasizes the development of citizens to create and leverage knowledge to further innovation in the local and global marketplace. ...

... "Kuwait's Communications Minister Ibrahim Al-Shatti presented Monday a working paper outlining the national IT strategy in light of Knowledge Based Economy (KBE). " ...

IT Strategy: Enable Knowledge Based Economy: Via Kuna: Kuwait's Communications Minister outlines national IT strategy ...

Project Management Office PMO: Collaborative Environment ...

An interesting view of the PMO: an environment for IT and business collaboration where contribution is proven. ...

... "The project management office (PMO) was used in a number of cases to provide a collaborative environment for IT staff and business representatives. This environment provided contribution proof, mainly along the lines of time, cost and quality. " ...

Project Management Office PMO: Collaborative Environment: Via ITworld: Keeping score ...

Project: Tools Services Framework ...

Partners collaborate to launch Project Corona, which is an Eclipse tools services framework to support integration and interoperability for project teams. ...

... "Compuware Corporation and the Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of the Tools Services Framework (Corona) Project, to be led by Compuware. The creation of Project Corona comes less than six months after Compuware officially joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Member. Corona is a server-side framework that enables Eclipse-based tools to collaborate, sharing information about projects, applications and events. Project Corona--or the Tools Services Framework Project, as it is officially called--has been reviewed by the Eclipse Technology Project Management Committee (PMC) and officially accepted for project creation. " ...

Project: Tools Services Framework: Via Compuware: Compuware and the Eclipse Foundation Announce the Tools Services Framework (Corona) Project

Innovation and Project Management - Part 3 of 3

This is a continuation of Part 2, and shows how Tom Kelley's The Ten Faces of Innovation is living proof that innovation and project management are not mutually-exclusive, and in fact, must coexist for true success.

In Part 1, we talked about the Learning Personas described in Kelley's book (the Anthropologist, the Experimenter, and the Cross-Pollinator). In Part 2, we discussed the Organizing Personas (the Hurdler, the Collaborator, and the Director). Now we'll examine the final batch of personas, The Building Personas. Again, these are all adapted from Tom Kelley's book, which offers much more details and many real-life stories to illustrate these personas in action (and no, I don't get commission).

The Building Personas

7) The Experience Architect – Designs the customer experience, beyond just the functionality of a product. Comes up with new and creative ways to awe the customer, yet with the same basic product functionality. An example is Cold Stone Creamery, which creates an entertaining experience where the server mixes ice cream with any number of desired toppings on a slab of cold stone. The servers even put on shows. [my added comment is that The Experience Architect can learn from observing others, even in other genres, and as such can gain from the “Cross-Pollinator” and “Anthropologist” personas.]

8) The Set Designer – Creates a fun and vibrant physical working environment that can spark creativity and collaboration. Allows employees great latitude in their personal work spaces. Avoids dull, repetitive spaces. Creates formal and informal public spaces where people can collaborate and brainstorm, with all the appropriate supplies and accommodations.

9) The Caregiver – Anticipates customer needs before, during, and after the engagement, and goes above and beyond normal expectations. Makes it easy for the customer to select the right services, provides useful and quick information when needed, insures easy accessibility by the customer, and builds lasting relationships with the customer.

10) The Storyteller – Builds internal morale and external awareness through compelling stories and case studies that reinforce key values or traits. Builds “corporate legends” that get passed around. Not “spin doctors,” the storytellers get their stories from first-hand accounts from customers or employees. Storytelling builds credibility, unleashes people’s emotions, helps teams bond, and generates lessons learned.

Well, that concludes my summary of Tom Kelley's The Ten Faces of Innovation, and its applicability to project management. As you can hopefully see, what project manager wouldn't benefit from these learning, organizing, and building personas that can lead to a better customer experience, a more satisfied team, and a memorable result?

Sure, we can (and should) still define the scope of the project, manage changes to the agreed-upon scope, and use project scheduling and budgeting techniques (we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater). But we can take our projects to the next level with a strong dose of innovation, and these personas are as good a way to do that as any.

Collaboration and Openness Business Model ...

In continuation with previous post on collaboration and openness, IBM releases study that supports the business model for transparency and collaboration to drive innovation and, ultimately, revenue growth. ...

... "In terms of how to drive innovation, the study found that 76% of CEOs ranked business partner and customer collaboration as top sources for new ideas. This greatly contrasts with internal R&D, which ranked eighth as a source for new ideas -- cited by only 14% of CEOs. Despite the value they place on collaboration, many CEOs are still in the planning stage. While 76% of CEOs say that collaboration is critical, 51% say their organizations currently collaborate extensively. Interestingly, this is exaggerated in emerging markets, where 73% are collaborating, compared to 47% in mature markets. The study also suggests a link between collaboration and financial performance. " ...

Collaboration and Openness Business Model: Via IBM: Majority of Global CEOs Plan Fundamental Change and Expect New Forms of Innovation to Drive Growth, According to IBM Study ...

Collaboration and Openness in the Participation Age ...

Sun CEO Scott McNealy challenges industry leaders to rethink traditional business models built on the global network economy, where transparency, community, and collaboration drive innovation into The Participation Age. ...

... "Sun believes the world is entering a new era - the Participation Age - where dramatically lowered barriers to entry, plummeting device prices, and near-universal connectivity are driving a new round of network participation. From blogs to Java, SMS messages to Web services, participants are forming communities to drive change, create new businesses, new social services and new discoveries. This growth in the network economy is fueled by sharing and collaboration among communities interconnected by technology and driven by purpose. Sun also believes that sharing and collaboration in the Participation Age will stimulate innovation to help all participants from across the world grow and prosper. " ...

Collaboration and Openness in the Participation Age: Via Sun Microsystems: Thought Leaders Prove Sharing Builds Economies at Sun Microsystems' Participation Age Event: Sun CEO Scott McNealy Pushes Industry to Rethink Business for 21st Century, Focus on Collaboration and Community ...



Addtional references on the intersection of transparency, collaboration, community, and innovation:

Via SAP: SAP Leads Industry Collaboration in Support of Enterprise Services: "For the first time, a community process in which collaborative business process innovation can flourish in an open and transparent forum will become the standard by which all enterprise services development is measured. The Enterprise Services Community Process is the only industry-driven method for defining enterprise services and is poised to become the preferred method for the SAP customer and partner ecosystem to achieve business process innovation through the use of enterprise services. "

Via The Future of Work Weblog: Distributed Work and Network Building Tools: "As work becomes ever-more-highly distributed, an individual's responsibility for maintaining his or her network of connections, both inside and outside his or her company, is increasing. Team members might be located in different geographic locations and timezones. They may only have come together for a short-term project or they might not even be members of the same company. ... "

Via Business Week: This Way To The Future: "Ultimately, innovation is about continually pushing back the boundaries of what is possible. The true genius of capitalism is that it provides economic incentives for sustained innovation. "

Innovation: Influence Culture to Succeed ...

Jeffrey Phillips explores the innovation culture: free flow of ideas and people open to collaboration. Should compensation systems be changed to influence the culture? What works best? I've seen researchers share in the patent filing (prestige) and receive a modest reward from revenue performance (financial). ...

... "We've grown our cultures to assume that if it needs to be done, I'll do it myself. Basically, in many firms, we encourage competition and knowledge/information hoarding. " ...

Innovation: Influence Culture to Succeed: Via Innovate on Purpose: Biggest roadblock to corporate innovation ...

Fighting the Status Quo; A Lesson from an Education Reformer

Reading Dennis Littky's The Big Picture: Education is Everyone's Business has been very inspiring. Just as Littky challenges the status quo in the education system, we must do so in our organizations.

Here's a quote I especially like in the book:

"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back"
- Turkish Proverb

I've listed 21 key points, paraphrased from the book, to illustrate how the same issues that face the education system apply to creating a learning environment in business...

1. Teach how to think flexibly, not that there's a right way and a wrong way for doing everything. It's worth noting that the best tennis players hold the racket the wrong way.
2. Create an environment that allows students the freedom to find themselves with the support and motivation of inspiring adults [leaders]
3. Teach students to fish; don't give them fish. Quote: "We have plenty of people who can teach what they know, but very few who can teach their own capacity to learn" - Joseph Hart
4. Use collaborative learning - i.e. "What do we think of this passage as compared to this one?" etc.
5. Teaching and learning are about problem solving. Put teachers and learners in the best possible environment for them to do this together.
6. Don't dismiss someone as "dumb in math" or "uninterested in science." Cater to their strengths [as Peter Drucker says, "Make weaknesses irrelevant" and pair people with complementary strengths if need be]
7. Don't measure education [or any kind of success] by the number of minutes a kid sits at a desk.
8. Remember the Three R's: Relationships (with teachers, community, parents, etc.), Relevance (to the students lives and passions - i.e. "what's in it for me"), Rigor (allow them to concentrate intensely in an area of their interest - build depth, not breadth)
9. Insure a shared philosophy among the principal and teachers [i.e. management]
10. Fix the atmosphere. Create an environment for learning. Fun, happiness, respect, kindness.
11. Build celebration into the culture. Celebrate often, for various occasions.
12. Know who really sets the culture of a school [or organization]. It's the senior students [middle management and vocal champions -- what Seth Godin calls "the sneezers" --those who can spread an "idea virus"]. Engage them in recreating the culture, and others will follow suit. You can't change the culture by holding a special assembly [or a meeting or a memo]
13. Never make rules based on the exception.
14. To build trust and respect, provide responsibility and decision-making to students, and control over their environment, tools, and learning
15. A culture can thrive and grow on its own stories. Every interaction helps build the culture.
16. Start with the student, not the subjects or classes. Quote: "One size never fits all. One size fits one." - Tom Peters
17. Use real world examples - or better yet, real projects. Students can tell when things really matter and when they're contrived. [so can business people learning project management]
18. Don't give grades. The real world is based on giving feedback and showing people what they need to do to improve. It helps students succeed. Grades are meaningless, subjective, and can destroy morale. Use a narrative instead. It's a tool to help learning, not evaluation for evaluation's sake.
19. Quote: "Nobody grew taller by being measured." - Phillip Gammage
20. Measure what counts. There is no one indicator of success that fits every student. Instead, measure how often a student talks to teachers about their problems [builds the right culture]; measure if parents agree the school is a safe place and that it views parents as partners [i.e. customer satisfaction]
21. Friends of change [6 C's] are: concentration (on your philosophy), commitment, conversation, collaboration, caring, conviviality

Project Management: Microsoft Office Live Beta Now Available ...

Office Live Beta is now available to support collaborative project management in a software-as-a-service model ...

... "the Microsoft Office Live Collaboration service offers small businesses password-protected online workspaces (intranets and extranets). Capabilities include customer management, project management, sales and marketing management, employee management, and company administration, as well as password-protected internal shared sites to facilitate collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and other business partners. " ...

Project Management: Microsoft Office Live Beta Now Available: Via Microsoft: Microsoft Launches Beta Program for Microsoft Office Live Services: Internet-based services include free Web site, domain name and e-mail accounts ...

IT Governance Educational Experience ...

The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) announces launch of the OCEG IT Forum, which integrates multiple events and publications to create an annual experience where leaders collaborate on best practices and confront their governance challenges together. ...

... "The 2006 OCEG IT Forum program will include a Spring conference on May 9th and 10th at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA; a dedicated issue of GRC 360°, August’s edition of OCEG’s magazine distributed to over 40,000 subscribers and, lastly, a closing conference on November 14th & 15th at the Marine Club in San Francisco, CA. These three components of the IT Forum are integrated to provide a year-long educational experience where participants will investigate, benchmark and validate a broad range of IT governance and compliance practices. " ...

Via OCEG: OCEG ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF OCEG IT FORUM: Annual Program Will Focus on IT Best Practices, Technologies and Architectures Required to Automate and Sustain Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Operations ...

Agile Software Development: New Project Management Paradigm ...

According to article, traditional project management methods must be transformed to enable agile software development and service-oriented architectures. This new paradigm requires an organization that shares knowledge freely and quickly. An organization's readiness to work in the new paradigm of open collaboration is an indicator of success with agile software development methods. ...

... "Contrast that view with ASD, where scope creep is a given, changes happen often, developers respond quickly to those changes and, consequently, knowledge must be on hand at all times. Add in the service-oriented application method, where applications come together via units of work to be performed by a person, computer or team, and suddenly knowledge must not only be available, it needs to be shared freely and viewed as just one more piece to maneuver on the chess board. " ...

Agile Software Development: New Project Management Paradigm: Via Knowledge@W. P. Carey: Ready or Not, New IT Paradigm Requires Knowledge Sharing -- Part 2 ...

ITIL: 20 Years in the Making ...

ITIL is under active revision as it was last updated in 2000. A significant amount of collaborative effort went into its initial development. A balanced authoring process is being staffed for the refresh. ...

... "The spread of ITIL in America could be one of the most arduous, exciting stories about IT Management Services in this country and around the globe of recent years. ITIL was 20 years in development, a product of international collaboration, and today, it seems to be coming into its own at last. " ...

ITIL: 20 Years in the Making: Via IT Manager's Journal: The ITIL initiative ...

SOX SarbanesOxley: IT Asset Management: Webinar

Peregrine and Protiviti collaborate in Web Seminar, Dec 8, on driving SOX Sarbanes-Oxley compliance through better management of information technology assets. ...

Via Peregrine: Peregrine Systems and Protiviti to Participate in InformationWeek TechWebCast on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Role of IT Asset Management ...

... "The WebCast will take place on Thursday, December 8 at 9:00 a.m. PST, and will discuss how organizations can minimize the total cost of ownership for IT assets and mitigate the risks associated with software audits. Although a number of major milestones have been met since Sarbanes-Oxley regulations were enacted in 2002, there is still a long way to go to achieve effective long-term compliance, especially within the IT organization. During this discussion, experts from Peregrine and Protiviti will draw on their experience working with business and technology leaders to offer advice on what's necessary to meet Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements and discuss a fast track approach to establishing leading IT Asset Management practices. " ...

Project Portfolio Management: Business Intelligence Enables Visualization ...

Project Portfolio Management PPM vendors are increasingly bundling business intelligence components in their offerings, such as Business Engine's collaboration with Cognos. ...

Project Portfolio Management: Business Intelligence Enables Visualization: Via Business Engine: Business Engine Teams with Cognos to Deliver Business Intelligence Tailored to IT and Engineering Organizations: Global 2000 Companies Gain Greater Insight into Project-based Portfolios with Advanced Metrics, Dashboards and Reporting ...

... "BEN Business Intelligence embeds industry-leading business intelligence technology from Cognos, including Cognos ReportNet and Cognos PowerPlay, to provide IT and business users with powerful reporting and OLAP analysis through easy access to timely and accurate information. Business Engine recognizes the strategic importance of business intelligence and corporate performance management in helping enterprises gain greater value from their IT investments, align business goals and ultimately deliver solid results, said Ted Jandl, Area Vice President of Strategic Partners at Cognos. Coupling Cognos with Business Engine's leading Project Portfolio Management solution gives savvy corporate leaders the ability to make informed decisions about their business and technology investment portfolio while helping to drive enterprise agility in the face of a shifting economic landscape. " ...

Project Team: The Ideal Collaborative Team Members ...

Recent survey favors project team members with an open mind and natural curiosity over familiarity and reputation. ...

Project Team: The Ideal Collaborative Team Members ...: Via How to Save the World: A New Survey Suggests that Attitude is More Important than Experience in Collaborative Work ...

... "Two criteria, enthusiasm for the subject of the collaboration, and open-mindedness and curiosity, are rated as the most important criteria by virtually all segments of respondents. " ...

Project Management: Google Innovation Machine ...

Quentin Hardy explores insights from Google CEO Eric Schmidt to better understand the project management methods powering the Google innovation machine, such as small teams, data-based decision making, rapid project life cycles, and collaboration networks. ...

Project Management: Google Innovation Machine: Via Forbes.com: Google Thinks Small ...

... "Brin and Page have created a corporate organism that tackles most big projects in small, tightly focused teams, setting them up in an instant and breaking them down weeks later without remorse. " ...

Earned Value Management System: Risk Perspective ...

ASC will identify, manage and mitigate risks on its military projects using Welcom's software, which complements its existing use of the earned value management capabilities. ...

Earned Value Management System: Risk Perspective: Via Welcom: Australian Submarine Builder ASC Pty Ltd Chooses WelcomRisk ...

... "ASC has been using our Cobra project cost and earned value management system since 2002, and we see the selection of WelcomRisk as a further endorsement of WST Pacific and Welcom's project portfolio management solutions, said Steve Cook, president of Welcom. " ...

WelcomRisk is a formalized risk management tool for the proactive identification and mitigation of business risk, both threats and opportunities. WelcomRisk combines a user-friendly interface with a higher level of flexibility and granularity than other products. Its flexible integration capabilities and tight security provide companies with a better solution across the enterprise. WelcomRisk is part of WelcomSuite™, a comprehensive solution that supports portfolio analysis, project collaboration, planning and scheduling, and cost and earned value reporting.

Enterprise Architecture: SEC Future State: Troux Metis ...

Troux and ISI partner to drive the enterprise architecture transformation at the SEC over the next few years. ...

Enterprise Architecture: SEC Future State: Troux Metis: Via Troux: SEC Taps Troux Technologies and ISI for Multi-Year Enterprise Architecture Program

... "Troux Technologies, the global leader in IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture (EA) solutions, and Integrated Systems, Inc., a foremost 8(a)-certified systems integrator, announced they have jointly won a multi-year contract from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to implement the SEC's Enterprise Architecture and increase its business value. Under the agreement, Troux and ISI will collaborate to provide the SEC's Office of Information and Technology with consulting expertise in documenting the SEC's current state architecture, and in developing and maintaining future state target architectures. ... Troux's Metis Enterprise is an Enterprise Architecture and planning solution that provides the basis for the transformation from an organization's current state to an optimized future state. It is designed with a highly scalable database that accommodates the volume of enterprise-wide data required for successful organizational transformation. Additionally, Troux's Metis offers a unique analysis capability, leveraging both the current and future EA states. The automated data collection in Metis, from disparate sources across the organization, keeps information timely and relevant. " ...

Integrated Systems, Inc. is dedicated to the development and implementation of high quality technology- and process-based solutions for government and commercial clients. Founded by Indrani Seetharam in 2000, ISI is a Minority Woman-Owned 8(a)-Certified small business, currently providing sophisticated technical solutions to the U.S. Treasury, the Departments of Homeland Security (US VISIT Program), Transportation (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), Energy, Agriculture and Education; the National Archive and Records Administration; the State of Delaware; and the US Navy Space Warfare Center (SPAWAR). ISI's focus areas include Enterprise Architecture, Information Assurance, Information Security, Certification and Accreditation, Independent Validation and Verification and Life-cycle Management. ISI develops practical, affordable, and deliverable solutions of significant value to its clients, on or ahead of schedule.

Troux Technologies (pronounced "true") is a global provider of IT Governance software that accelerates IT and business transformation. Troux's IT Governance solutions enable organizations to strategically plan the enterprise, capture and analyze critical IT and business data and deliver actionable decisions to transform the business. Troux's breakthrough technology provides the enterprise-class information, policies, and analytics critical for IT excellence. With Troux, organizations succeed in breaking the traditional IT silos and effectively aligning IT with core business goals. Based in Austin, Texas, Troux Technologies serves the Global 1000 and government marketplaces.

Software as a Service: Microsoft Office Live: Project Collaboration ...

Microsoft Office Live will be released in beta in a software-as-a-service model (similar to Salesforce.com), which can support online project collaboration. ...

Via Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger: Matt Rolak says that Office Live is up

... "Matt Rolak links to the new Office Live site. " ...

... "Via Microsoft: Microsoft Office Live: Microsoft Office Live will offer you and your employees expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced private Web site ... " ...

Project Management Collaboration: Google Methods

Insights on collaboration and project management methods at Google ... Dan Farber explores insights from a recent talk by David Merrill, Google IT exec, about their practices. The Google internal organization promotes openness, has a flat structure, and sustains transparency. The workforce can allocate 20% of their time on personal projects. The project portfolio is dominated by small projects with short cycles of three months and fast resource turns, where employees change projects frequently and rotate departments every year. A project database is used as a reporting system at Google. A culture of innovation is fostered through iterative designs, continuous improvement, and data-based decision making.

Project Management Collaboration: Google Methods: Via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

... "What particularly struck me is the simplicity of the company's process for sharing information among the many projects it has under way at any given moment. " ...

Project Team Collaboration Software: Intra and Inter Enterprise ...

Project teams benefits from communication and collaboration. Latest application suite provides powerful project team collaboration community that support intra- and inter-enterprise projects ...

Project Team Collaboration Software: Intra and Inter Enterprise: Via Plumtree, Inc.: Plumtree Software Unveils Next-Generation G6 Product Suite at Odyssey+ADC 2005 ...

... "Disconnected teams and poor communication often slow progress on projects and business initiatives. However, Plumtree Collaboration allows team members throughout the extended-enterprise to work together via the Web easily and efficiently. Designed to support collaboration as a part of daily work, Plumtree Collaboration offers equal integration with enterprise systems, Microsoft Office tools and a Web portal. Benefits: Employees, partners and customers can share and manage documents and project information, engage in online discussions and coordinate through notifications and synchronized calendars. Key new features include new e-mail collaboration, bulk publishing, customizable projects, zip download, a recycle bin and usability enhancements. Also, more platform and infrastructure choices are available for customers with the addition of Linux operating systems and the Firefox browser. " ...

IT Research Projects: Google, NASA Join Forces

Google and NASA have agreed to collaborate on research projects that will synergize the knowledge of both organizations. Between Google's ability to organize information and NASA's supercomputing ability, some interesting advancements should result.

Check out the Computerworld report...

Google, NASA plan R&D partnership - Computerworld

Project Automation Solutions Provider: High-Growth Recognized ...

Project Automation Solutions Provider: High-Growth Recognized: Via OpenAir: OpenAir Named One of New England's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program: Outstanding customer service coupled with technological innovation drives 1,185 Percent Revenue Growth ...

OpenAir's hyper-growth, using the project management software-as-a-service model, is recognized in the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 ...

... "OpenAir provides comprehensive automation solutions for services teams and consulting firms around the world. More than 200 companies and 18,000 subscribers use OpenAir to gain controls and insight on their financial best practices and to manage complex projects, deployments and consulting engagements. Users such as consulting firms and other service providers use OpenAir to improve employee utilization, capture more billable hours and streamline project management. " ...

OpenAir is the Web-native professional services automation solution that helps independent software vendors, marketing services companies, consulting firms, and internal corporate service organizations increase top-line growth, improve operations and enhance financial controls. OpenAir customers increase profits by capturing additional billable hours, increasing employee utilization, streamlining project management, accelerating revenue, enhancing collaboration, improving revenue recognition and project accounting, and sharing knowledge and best practices throughout the organization. OpenAir has helped leading services organizations across six continents increase profits through the subscription-based OpenAir® Complete solution.

Portfolio Management Software ...

Portfolio Management Software: Via Shared Spaces Research & Consulting: Shared Spaces Briefing, Sep 21

... "Green Array announced its namesake product for portfolio and project management, business process and collaboration. Integrates project methodology, project management tools (resource planning, surveys, critical task management, document management), and browser-based dashboards to give an overall picture of the health of a portfolio of projects. " ...

Group Project Management Via Corporate Wiki ...

Via Socialtext -- Enterprise Social Software: Evolving Collaboration Video ...

Wiki used for group project management ...

... "Wiki while you work James Hilliard looks at the corporate wiki, an editable Web site designed for quick and easy group project management. " ...

Hosted Project Team Collaboration ...

Hosted Project Team Collaboration: Via Shared Spaces Research & Consulting: Shared Spaces Briefing

... "TeamPoint Systems launched DayPoint Access, a hosted version of its team collaboration application DayPoint Enterprise. Includes discussion forums, personal and shared calendars, document management, project management, web-based email, and contact management, among others. " ...

AEC Project Management Software: Prolog Upgrade ...

AEC Project Management Software: Prolog Upgrade: Via Meridian Systems: Meridian Systems Launches Enhanced Prolog at Annual User Conference

... "Meridian Systems, provider of award-winning and innovative software for managing projects, programs and facilities, today announced the availability of Prolog Manager version 7.5 to more than 300 customers, resellers and business partners at the Meridian Systems User Conference. This 9th annual gathering of leading construction, engineering and real estate companies, is taking place this week in Scottsdale at the Camelback Inn. Prolog delivers in-depth project management features across projects and programs in the areas of collaboration, purchasing management, cost control, document management and field administration. " ...

Meridian Systems provides enterprise solutions that optimize the plan, build and operate phases of real estate, construction and other physical infrastructure initiatives. Meridian solutions are used by more than 8,500 of today's large building owners, government agencies, and engineering and construction firms to improve top-line revenue growth while reducing their capital construction costs. Meridian uniquely provides both traditional software and hosted ASP solutions, and ranks as a market share leader in project management software among general contractors with over $100 million in revenue*. Meridian has an impressive track record of revenue growth over its 12-year history, and has been repeatedly recognized as a Constructech Hottest Technology company. Meridian is headquartered in Folsom, Calif.

Project Management: Business Collaboration ...

Project Management: Business Collaboration: Via InformationWeek: Project Management: SmartAdvice: The New Face Of Project Management ...

Info Week's Advisory Council discusses evolution of business collaboration and impact on project management ...

... "Collaborative Project Management: The confluence of universal Internet, universal laptop, and Web-server underpinnings has reinvigorated the once-stable project-management world. " ...

Collaborative Project Management Solution: Distributed Mobile Workforce

Collaborative Project Management Solution: Distributed Mobile Workforce: Via Autodesk: Autodesk Buzzsaw: Autodesk Expands Relationship with Maeda Corporation

Seven-Eleven Japan uses collaborative project management solution to monitor progress in a distributed environment leveraging a mobile workforce ...

... "Using Buzzsaw, Seven-Eleven has enhanced collaboration across its supply chain and continues to realize new operational efficiencies. Initially Seven-Eleven used Buzzsaw for collaborative design management, helping them more effectively share information with architectural offices across Japan and reduce the time it takes to open a retail outlet. Today, Seven-Eleven is using Buzzsaw to manage and track the progress of a construction project that will convert their store communication infrastructure from copper to fiber optics. One of the more valuable features that Buzzsaw provides to Maeda and Seven-Eleven is the ability to upload and review site photographs taken with mobile phones. This capability enables Maeda and Seven-Eleven to monitor progress and verify that work has been completed. " ...

Maeda was established in Japan in 1919. Since then, it has progressed to become one of Japan’s leading building and civil engineering contractors. Maeda has a well-earned reputation for completing contracts with high-quality work and technical standards within short construction periods at very competitive prices.

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) is wholly focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. With six million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media and wireless data services fields. Autodesk’s solutions help customers create, manage and share their data and digital assets more effectively. As a result, customers turn ideas into competitive advantage by becoming more productive, streamlining project efficiency and maximizing profits. Founded in 1982, Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California.

Enterprise Architecture PMO: Common Framework For Investments

Enterprise Architecture PMO: Common Framework For Investments: Via OMB: Enabling Citizen Centered Government: 2005-2006 FEA PMO Action Plan ...

Feds leverage an enterprise architecture program management office (PMO) to provide visibility across IT investments ...

... "The FEA Program Management Office (FEA PMO), located in OMB’s Office of E-Gov and IT, equips OMB and Federal agencies with a common language and framework to describe and analyze IT investments, enhance collaboration and ultimately transform the Federal government into a citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based organization as set forth in the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). The FEA consists of a set of interrelated reference models designed to facilitate crossagency analysis and the identification of duplicative investments, gaps and opportunities for collaboration within and across agencies. " ...

Project Management: Acceptance Process Define in Project Plan ...

Project Management: Acceptance Process Define in Project Plan: Via New York State Office of Technology: Section provides Project Managers with a compilation of references and resources to use as they seek to further their education and skills in project management ...

When is a project deliverable complete? And, who says that it is complete? The project manager? The project team? A sticky issue. Here's advice for a disciplined approach to managing the acceptance of deliverables ...

... "Acceptance Management: A process to be used throughout the project to obtain approval from an authorized Customer Decision Maker for work done on the project to date. This process is defined and included in the Project Plan. The approval at each stage means that the deliverable(s) for that stage are completed to the satisfaction of the Customer. In order for a deliverable to be considered complete and acceptable, it is measured against pre-determined acceptance criteria. " ...

OFT is predicated on both collaboration and innovation as it strives to guide the State's technology future. By taking advantage of emerging technology, OFT works to improve government services -- making state government more efficient, integrated, cost-effective and accessible.

Project Management Belongs In-House

It started with the ERP boom after Y2K. Massive software projects, such as SAP implementations, were led by consultants and typically came in over budget and behind schedule. While consultants can and should be a vital part of any project that involves new technology or unfamiliar areas, it's important for organizations to retain ownership of the overall project and not leave everything at the mercy of the consulting company.

Part of that is insuring that contracts are creatively designed with a combination of time and materials plus incentives (and/or penalties for not delivering on certain tangible objectives). Fixed-fee contracts only tend to work when the scope can be defined precisely and agreed upon. Otherwise, the consulting company may make unwanted sacrifices to stay within budget. Time and materials without any incentives or penalties (or at least a "not to exceed" limit) puts all the risk on your organization. Incentives work better than penalties as it facilitates more positive collaboration. Vendors will be reluctant to accept penalties unless scope and the means to achieve it is crystal clear.

This doesn't mean that pride should get in the way of benefiting from a consulting company's tried and true methodology, merely that the leadership, ownership, and accountability of the efforts should remain in-house. Part of this accountability is insuring the right contracts are negotiated.

This oldie-but-goodie below from CIO Magazine is from 2002, but is still relevant today. It explores further the pitfalls of consultant-led projects and offers some sage advise. Some things have changed since 2002, but one thing hasn't. Suffering from the residue, organizations are still struggling to get value out of their expensive ERP products. Don't make the same mistakes they did back at the beginning of the millenium. Take control of your projects.

Take Control Consultants-can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em - ENTERPRISE PROJECTS - CIO Magazine Jul 15,2002

Agile Project Management Software APM: Distributed Visibility ...

Via Rally Software Development: RALLY continues to drive agile development market with launch of RALLY release 5 ...

Rally offers project management tools (APM) that support agile software development practices, enabling real-time visibility across distributed teams ...

... "Scale Agile Project Management (APM) to large, complex projects - New Program Roadmaps and feature complete reports allow customers to effectively plan and manage large-scale Agile development projects involving hundreds of team members distributed across multiple, concurrent projects. " ...

Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally Software Development is the leader in on-demand software lifecycle management solutions for scaling Agile development practices across the enterprise and around the globe. The company’s customers include leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development teams that are committed to improving their responsiveness to new opportunities and fast-changing customer demands. Rally marries Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests and defects so larger or distributed teams gain the visibility and collaboration needed to define, develop and deliver high-value software in rapid iterations. Rally’s world-renown coaches and expert partners complement its tooling with training and consulting services for creating the Agile organization.

Strategic Value Management: Fujitsu ProSight Partner

Strategic Value Management: Fujitsu ProSight Partner: Via Fujitsu: Fujitsu Consulting and ProSight to Combine Expertise in Technology Portfolio Management Consulting : FUJITSU United States

Fujitsu leverages portfolio management tool to support their IT value management service offering ...

... "Tools that support strategic value, while balancing factors such as value-at-risk, time horizon of benefits and strategic coverage help drive value creation. ProSight allows Fujitsu Consulting to more easily offer the full range of possibilities for its Value Management offering. Value Management is a suite of services from Fujitsu Consulting that helps its customers maximize value creation in their enterprise. " ...

ProSight, the experts in portfolio management software, combines software with services and knowledge resources to equip companies with effective oversight of investments, resources and performance, enhancing business results and strategic collaboration—enterprise wide. ProSight is headquartered in Portland, Ore.