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Strategy-Execution Gaps
The statistics on strategy execution are dismal:
59% of middle managers fail at resolving conflicts in corporate strategy.
45% of middle managers cannot name one of the top five corporate goals.
64% of cross department/functional issues are poorly resolved.
And maybe as you could expect from this:
53% of companies cannot react timely to new opportunities.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist to know
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“Properly Defining a Project's initiation:
Experience teaches that when the customer anticipates something without specifically requesting it, and it is missing from the exclusion list while other nonrequested items are included, the customer argues that the anticipated item is in scope.”
― Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure
Experience teaches that when the customer anticipates something without specifically requesting it, and it is missing from the exclusion list while other nonrequested items are included, the customer argues that the anticipated item is in scope.”
― Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure
“Properly Defining a Project's Initiation:
Projects start going bad at inception --- the customer's inception...
The problem is that these are initiatives rather than projects. Managers often fail to include the implementation professionals in these early meetings....stays close to the intended baseline...
people are enamored with technology...accept the limited information provided by sales material as definitive and ignore the hidden complexities in the implementation. As a result, during the inception of a project, customers use buzzwords and concepts they believe they understand and make assumptions about the idea's implementation.”
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Projects start going bad at inception --- the customer's inception...
The problem is that these are initiatives rather than projects. Managers often fail to include the implementation professionals in these early meetings....stays close to the intended baseline...
people are enamored with technology...accept the limited information provided by sales material as definitive and ignore the hidden complexities in the implementation. As a result, during the inception of a project, customers use buzzwords and concepts they believe they understand and make assumptions about the idea's implementation.”
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