Integrated Process Developers, Inc.

Engineering Society of Detroit - Technology Century Magazine

You Think You Are NOT a Project Manager?
So, one day you accidentally walk past your boss' office and he/she calls you in for a brief discussion. Yep, you guessed right, you are given another assignment. Your title may not reflect it, but you are now a Project Manager.

2001 Project Management Institute's International Symposium

Team Autonomy vs. Common Process - Solving the Conflict
The tug-of-war occurs between project teams and corporate management. Neither side is willing to concede. Neither side should. The corporation wants common processes and the benefits which go with them. Project teams demand the autonomy that is essential to meeting the specific demands they encounter during the course of the project. Management and project teams cannot both get what they want, or can they?

1997 Project Management Institute's International Symposium

Process Improvement or Process Re-Arrangement: Will You Know Before It Is Too Late?

Many companies are looking towards re-organization and process re-engineering in order to meet today's business challenges. The problem is, how will these companies, your company, know that the re-organization and re-engineering will be a true process improvement as opposed to a process "re-arrangement"? Corporate re-organization is simply shaking the tree and watching the monkeys move to different branches. Process re-arrangement is simply changing the way you "do it". Process improvement involves a total analysis of the current state and desired future state of the company from the ground up. It is not a white wash of the current company but a re-development of it. True process improvement is much more difficult but yields much larger, more profitable results!

Purchasing Today

Purchasing and Supply, Meet Project Management

To see the silent pictures Judith of Bethulia (1913) or The Birth of a Nation (1915) is to witness the results of project management by one of the world's first and great project managers, movie director D.W. Griffith. But while Hollywood has been project managing since the beginning of film, it's usually the construction and aerospace industries that are traditionally associated with the discipline, followed more recently by the telecommunication and computer industries. Yet over the last decade, project management - a team-based approach to work - has leapt out of the box and is being recognized and embraced by more and more organizations in a wide spectrum of businesses.

System Solver's Ltd Newsletter

A New Way of Process Improvement

To effectively improve your company's process you need to look at the basic laws of business. Just as their are undeniable laws of physics, there are undeniable laws of business which, if broken, yield catastrophic results. Re-inventing a company's process is a four (4) step operation. The steps must be followed in the proper order or the results will be less than desired as discussed previously.