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31/01/2023

According to surveys, only 35% of all are considered successful. This means, that around 65% of projects fail to achieve their goals or go or .

But what if it were not desirable for all projects to succeed? Projects are organizational goals for , , and . They are daring into the unknown. If you always reach all your goals, the only explanation would be, that your goals are not ambitious enough. Same with projects, if you deliver all your projects to the satisfaction of your stakeholders, probably stakeholders should rethink their contentment criteria.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez classifies projects according to (with respect to size, scope, number of stakeholders and their alignment) and (degree of innovation, previous experience, allowed budget and clarity of the outcome).

🔷Efficiency projects are a must to keep organization running and , comply with and operate on a solid technological ground. They should be 100% successful. Anything lower will means lower and suboptimal .

🔷 Sustaining projects aim to grow and expand the organization beyond the core business. Project leaders should invest time and money on setting, aligning with the current and have about the desired outcomes before starting the project. These types of projects should aim for 75% success rate. If it is lower, it means that organization is too conservative and not taking enough .

Transformative projects – are radical , that disrupt industries and markets, create new and new . These are the riskiest and the most challenging, only a handful of ideas of this kind can succeed. The focus here is on the and not project success goal is to fail fast and learn fast. If you can reach 30% success in these types of projects, you can be proud of your innovation teams.

24/01/2023

and project management wilk keep growing in importance – regardless of and different project management software offerings. Maybe exactly because of the aids.

According to a survey only about 46% of organization make project management methodologies part of their , despite the overwhelming evidence that best practice standards, such as of Project Management Institute, help to deliver better project results in terms of time and budget performance.

But project managers' work is far from done with the adoption of templates and tools. As aids take more and more menial tasks off the place of project managers, the relative importance of the non-menial tasks, that only a human can perform will keep growing:
- Ask the right questions
- Pick the right ideas
- Involve the people required
- Pay attention to side effects and develop systemic thinking (so that you can ask the right questions)
- Deal with resistances – if you have lack of acceptance among the stakeholders, or lack of commitment within your team, AI might make matters even worse – when unsure people want to see and deal with people on order to make complex decisions, even if data search is performed with a machine.
- Celebrate successes together.

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19/01/2023

We all know that healthy organizational cultures have the potential to be , where people feel safe and comfortable to share . Cultures, where they don’t fear to be mocked, embarrassed, judged or face retribution.

The truth is, healthy not only share ideas, but they by building up upon each other’s ideas and create shared .

Healthy cultures do not have less misunderstanding, fewer conflicts or make fewer mistakes. Research suggests that they at times even have more of that. But in a productive, constructive, and mutually appreciative way.

Just compare the size of the colored area and think on all that squandered potential!

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22/07/2020

What are the keys to strong, high performing and engaged virtual teams?

- Get the right people and invest into building good relationships. We love to work with the people we value.

- Invest into trust. In a virtual team, high trust will lead to greater benefits, but adverse effects of a low trust environment are more exacerbating.

- Set goals and unite the team behind these. Let the team members embrace the goals cognitively, as well as with emotionally.

- Create transparency and a sense of security. Everyone should feel inside the information loop.

- Agree on tools. If the team relies on technology for its collaboration, it is important to get the technology right.

- Be clear on what kind of culture you want to prevail in your team. Appreciation and feedback are important for people to engage and feel valued. Don’t forget fun and insider content to strengthen the bond.

- Evaluate performance. You only can manage what you can measure. Set achievable, but challenging objectives.

How can your team achieve great results while taping fully into the potential of distributed work?

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