Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006778
T. Kippenberger
Claims some organizations produce largely the same products or services year in, year out, e.g. issuing passports or driving licences, treating patients, handling financial transactions, assembling consumer products, etc. Uses 3 Figures to emphasize points made and discusses both the project approach and the programme approach. States an important aspect of programme management is progress control, which should be a combination of two approaches: regular progress control; and ad hoc progress control. Concludes programme management is a management process and, if properly used — not as a dogmatic, prescribed procedure — but as a means of improving co‐operation through help and communication.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006780
T. Kippenberger
Posits that the pace of change now means that strategy implementation needs a more co‐ordinated approach than previously was the case. Says that it is common for senior managers to set corporate missions and strategic objectives and then to leave implementation to divisional, regional or departmental managers, using existing processes within the current organizational structure. Employs copious use of Figures to emphasize the arguments made herein. Sums up that strategists must therefore be directly involved and not leave things to professional project or programme managers.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006785
T. Kippenberger
Projects that even the most battle‐hardened project manager will acknowledge that manager’s mental models, their attitudes, the competences they rate, etc., all have major implications. Looks at in‐house cultures, external cultures, dysfunctional cultures and international cultures. Uses 2 Figures to emphasize both the iceberg model of inter‐cultural business analysis and cultural dimensions. Weighs up some of the differences between cultures that could hold back companies in an international field. Concludes project managers have a heavy cultural burden to bear.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006787
T. Kippenberger
States human progress demands risk‐taking but, conversely, managing risk in projects is always critical to success. Proposes that managers must make project risk management explicit and make identification of risks a priority. Recommends that contingency plans for low impact, high probability risks such as ‘Website designer delivers late’, but stresses controls must be put in place to allow for an early warning. Aims to encourage a robust and balanced appreciation of the trade‐off between risks and the reduction of them. Uses Figures and shaded boxes for explanation and further emphasis.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006783
T. Kippenberger
States it is not enough for a project leader to be good at project management, or to be aware of the need for fluent communication. Believes a project sponsor not only initiates the project but is also the project leader’s boss. Catalogues 4 Figures that add emphasis to the article. Confirms that stakeholders must be able to be divided into market segments for the benefit of project leaders. Determines that there are two aspects requiring particular emphasis: image and culture; and networking or informal contacts. Suggests one effective way of energizing internal market effort involves networking different team members at differing times in various roles.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006793
T. Kippenberger
Chronicles some of the reasons for project failure. Defines critical success factors, identifies causes of project success or failure — not satisfactorily explaining reasons behind the causes. Contends that people do not like to plan, thinking only of the end result. Lists out seven items that can go wrong. States that management by objectives requires that project milestones be put in place. Argues that the use of an analytical, logical method of management in search of answers is debatable — even in standardized production environments.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006792
T. Kippenberger
Submits that benefits management is defined as the identification, optimizing and tracking of the expected benefits from business change to ensure that they are achieved. Identifies benefits and quantifies them by profiling the seven profiles. Monitors the benefits and uses a Figure for emphasis. Recommends that line managers are responsible for realizing the benefits and need to be involved throughout the defining and quantifying process.
{"title":"Managing the business benefits","authors":"T. Kippenberger","doi":"10.1108/EUM0000000006792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006792","url":null,"abstract":"Submits that benefits management is defined as the identification, optimizing and tracking of the expected benefits from business change to ensure that they are achieved. Identifies benefits and quantifies them by profiling the seven profiles. Monitors the benefits and uses a Figure for emphasis. Recommends that line managers are responsible for realizing the benefits and need to be involved throughout the defining and quantifying process.","PeriodicalId":178456,"journal":{"name":"The Antidote","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123513372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006782
T. Kippenberger
Reckons that change tends to generate more change and projects should only be undertaken under extreme need to solve a problem — something that may stop one achieving the goals (as long as one knows what the goals are!). Believes there are 4 different types of concept underlying all projects and discusses these in depth. Suggests that in assembling project teams the main requirements are team leaders and team members — of which a balanced need is: doers; solvers; checkers; and knowers. Concludes projects have to be treated differently to add value in the correct areas.
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Pub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006790
T. Kippenberger
Uses headed points to highlight ten issues, involved with projects and their management. Sets the whole thing out as a question item aimed at helping the reader to obtain the right answers. States there are many others but these will do for now!
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Pub Date : 2000-06-01DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006772
T. Kippenberger
Weighs up teleworking and telecommuting and their affect on today’s working environment — stating that if a job or major portions of it, does not intrinsically depend on the location of the worker, then it is teleworkable. Suggests some alternative forms of telecommuting: home‐based; satellite telecommuting centres; local telecommuting centres; and combinations. Uses 4 Figures to aid in emphasizing some organizational design as well as greater flexibility of location: fragmentation; dispersion; diffusion; and network. Looks at regional characteristics of various world areas in: Latin America and the Caribbean; eastern Europe and north Asia; Asia Pacific; south Asia; Asia planned economies; and Africa and the Middle East. Concludes telework will steadily increase as a work mode in the future, though some areas (Eastern Europe and Latin America) may still have major reliance on labour at worksites.
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