Insights
Practical guidance on capital projects, governance, financing, and delivery for Indigenous and public-sector leaders.
Scrum was designed for software, but hardware teams at Saab, BMW, and medical device manufacturers have proven it can work -- with the right adaptations. Here is what changes, what doesn't, and what to avoid.
Read more →Every project has at least one critical stakeholder who is nearly impossible to get in a room: the busy executive sponsor, the overcommitted subject-matter expert, the committee that meets quarterly. Here is how to design around it.
Read more →The pandemic triggered a fundamental rethinking of distant sourcing strategies. Nearshoring and reshoring offer real benefits -- but they also involve real costs and trade-offs that deserve honest evaluation before any decision is made.
Read more →Most organisations say they are data-driven but make decisions on intuition, seniority, or whoever speaks loudest. Lean Six Sigma offers a disciplined path to changing that -- at the team level and at the leadership level.
Read more →Agile adoption is maturing beyond the transformation hype. Here are the trends shaping how teams and organisations actually practise agile in 2023 -- and what they mean for practitioners.
Read more →The start of a new year is a natural reset point for project portfolios. Here is the checklist that project leaders should run through before momentum builds -- and the habits that separate consistent deliverers from the rest.
Read more →From the slow unwinding of COVID disruptions to new shocks from the Ukraine conflict and energy prices, 2022 tested supply chain resilience in multiple dimensions. Here are the lessons that matter heading into 2023.
Read more →From healthcare acceleration to digital integration, 2022 was a year of expanding LSS relevance. Here is what the year taught us and what 2023 holds for practitioners and organisations.
Read more →Scrum adoption continues to grow, but the context in which it operates is shifting. Here is what practitioners and organisations should focus on to stay relevant and effective in the year ahead.
Read more →Most organisations measure whether projects were delivered on time and on budget. Very few measure whether they delivered the benefits the investment was meant to produce. Benefits management closes that loop.
Read more →Supply chain decisions reflect and reinforce business strategy -- but only when the connection is made deliberately. Here is how to assess whether your supply chain is aligned with where your business is trying to go.
Read more →Value engineering is not cost-cutting. It is a systematic method for improving the relationship between function and cost -- delivering the same or greater function at lower cost, or greater function at the same cost.
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