Indulge me a tad bit as I draw a comparison I was thinking on the other day. Let me explain. More significant (shall we say enterprise) F1 teams such as Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, and McLaren spend a yearly budget of almost $400 million for...
Richard Catalano
Do Start-Ups have a Technical Advantage?
The pure and simple reason behind the tech revolution and innovation within the business world (and moreover in the Digital Transformation space) comes down to a few simple things. Who can do it better, faster, and stronger? Several things give startups a...
Solve the problem. Provide a solution. Win.
By now, it is painfully clear that we live in the age of the consumer. It’s assuredly a buyers market, and the buyer has many, many options. The omnipresent technology to consume personalized, contextual information, make purchases, and run businesses are what...
Finding a Friend in DX
So far, the push within 2019 and the app world of Digital Transformations has been around team collaboration by way of shared applications. Skype (for Business), MS Teams (including One Drive), Slack, Adobe, Google and others have all pushed hard to tie more people...
Value at Risk: Achieving Benefits Realization
In the extremely expensive, complex, and challenging world of ERP programs, and or large-scale digital transformations, the focus trends to being four key points. Those points are delivering the program on time, on budget, on scope, and moreover with full benefits...
Communication and Corporate Culture: OCM
Within the realms of a digital transformation, the Organizational Change Management (OCM) group is an important player in the overall health of a program. They are tasked with multiple initiatives in order to be effectual in the successful implementation. They can be...
PMOs That Deliver Value
In today's project management world, the term “at speed” has become clear to many as being “at the speed of change.” Meaning that with so many focal points of a program/project, a plethora of in motion elements with inter-value stream (swim lane, or whatever you want...
To PMO or Not to PMO; That is the Question
My career (and more recently my company) has been built on being an independent consultant or voice for those programs or projects that are leaders within the constructs of a Project (Program) Management Office. The reasoning is/was always clear to me, but the...
Digital Transformation: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
I recently read a blog by Brian Solis of Altimeter, an independent research company that focuses on disruptive technology trends and found some encouraging, yet still alarming news on what their research is indicating as we wrap up the first quarter of 2019. ...
Fundamentals of a Successfully Integrated Core
With my twenty-five plus years in the Project Management field, I have found many obstacles, challenges, and more importantly the common thread of a successful digital transformation implementation. In this, I created for myself, and in the end, my clients a list of...