Evolution vs. Revolution: A Practical Approach to Inventory Agility
Inventory investments are often considered a necessary evil required to satisfy customer service requirements in order to capture maximum revenue.
Turning Operational Strategy into Results for Your Business
When it’s time to start turning strategy into results, you might be lost on what to look for. Learn what operational strategy results really mean and what to look for.
Importance of Strategy Execution: What It Is and Isn’t Within an Operational Strategy
Wondering what the importance of strategy execution is over strategy implementation? There’s a critical difference. Learn how execution fits in here.
Staying the (Changing) Course: Implementing an Operational Strategy
Implementing operational strategy is a critical step in your overall strategic journey, but it’s less about “doing” and more about being prepared for change.
Operational Strategy: Turning Strategy Into Action
An operational strategy cannot be achieved without definition, planning, alignment, control, and flexibility. Learn more about how you can put yours into action.
Struggling with Inventory Performance? Stop Trying to Please Everyone and Get a Fresh Perspective
Does your organization struggle with inventory management? It doesn’t have to. Learn how to overcome outside pressures and achieve balance.
Why Capital Allocation Should Exist at the Portfolio Level
This is a guest post written by Ken Brooks, Chief Content Officer of Wiley Knowledge & Learning. Connect with Ken on LinkedIn and visit the Wiley website to learn more. It’s All About Alignment Like most organizations, you have a long-term goal that you strive to achieve by undertaking and (hopefully) completing a number of [...]
Transforming a Business Case for Action into a Usable Business Value Plan
Achieving a Goal is One Thing, Learning Its Benefits is Another As a business executive that authorizes programs and projects, it can be frustrating to get a business case for action with a great ROI, then never understand much about the result of the program other than the fact that it maybe came in on [...]
Navigating the Limitations of Project Management Metrics
Traditional Project Management Metrics are Confining Program and project managers know the constraints involved with their roles. Each endeavor is a dynamic relationship between the amount of time needed to make things happen, the scope that defines its parameters, and the budget needed to complete it. These constraints are also the project management metrics used [...]
Understanding the Difference Between Project, Program, and Portfolio Management
Common Use Doesn’t Mean Common Knowledge You’ve likely heard the term project management or project manager many times throughout your career. This is a common function and role in many organizations and industries across the world. Whether project management is a core component of your professional duties as a manager, director, or executive, or you’re [...]