Collective Performance

Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help

Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, Dirk Stempfhuber

Encouraging mutual support is a particularly effective way to accelerate project progress.

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What Successful Project Managers Do

Alexander Laufer, Edward J. Hoffman, Jeffrey S. Russell, W. Scott Cameron

How some projects manage to combine traditional approaches with certain teachings of agile methodology to boost their effectiveness.

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Organizing to Enable the Shift from Volume to Value

Christopher Handscomb, Frithjof Lund, Haakon Brunell

How can Scrum methods help to complete process reconfiguration projects more quickly?

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A Technique to Bridge the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Brad Power

A testimonial on how ING improved its service reliability by applying Scrum methods.

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Lean Knowledge Work

Bradley R. Staats, David M. Upton

Applying the Lean approach to intellectual services.

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The CEO of Bayer Corp. on Creating a Lean Growth Machine

Gregory S. Babe

The chairman of a branch of Bayer explains how he deployed a Lean project that transformed the organization and gave the company a major competitive edge.

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The Transparent Supply Chain

Steve New

How to make your supply chain as transparent as possible for customers.

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Keep Your Eye on Process Improvement

Brad Power

The author seeks to understand why companies which have obtained fast and visible results thanks to Lean approaches often give up trying to anchor these practices.

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Avoiding supply chain shipwrecks

The hidden risks and costs of distant delocalization.

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Contract manufacturing: realizing the potential

Advice on how to outsource production successfully.

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