Even the greatest Program Dashboard will not help if you do not use it to manage your portfolio more effectively. Here are 10 critical success factors I have learned in the process of using dashboards to drive successful outcomes on over 3,300 projects and programs…
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I have heard metrics that indicate that anywhere from 50% to 75% of all projects and programs are late or fail to meet their business objectives. However, I repeatedly see Program Dashboards that indicate that everything is “Green.” They key to avoiding this is picking Dashboard Metrics that create incentives for forward-looking behaviors that...
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So you have decided to create a Program Dashboard. The first thing you do is build a spreadsheet and start using it to collecting data. At the end of the month you brief your results to your executive team – and it falls flat. Why? Because you did not first look at your stakeholders...
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Based on best practices from RAND and proven with first-hand experience on over $500 million of public and private sector programs, the decision-based government model is an efficient way to implement large, complicated “high change” programs in manner that ensures accountability to all critical stakeholders and creates a culture of ownership and adoption...
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On January 27, 2009, President Obama issued his third executive order and memorandum requiring transparency and open government. This can best be achieved not by simple adoption of technology but instead by application of social media strategies to existing modes of public engagement at the state, local and federal levels...
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I am writing this rather quickly in response to a situation that is going on in the "Twitterverse" today. Essentially a rumor is going around about a company (a recent competitor) that has been picked up an commented upon by a few analysts and bloggers, in the spirit of Cicero (e.g, "I do...
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