by Bill Sterrett | Dec 22, 2015 | Strategic Marketing Planning
The Annual Strategic Marketing Plan is designed to identify how the company will execute the chosen strategy and achieve the business’ objectives. The Annual Plan includes: An executive summary SWOT Analysis – Situation analysis to summarize facts and...
by Bill Sterrett | Sep 11, 2015 | Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, Operations Management, Project Management
Being a General Manager can be difficult. There are so many aspects to performing this job successfully. I recently was asked what some tips would be for a new General Manager. Below are a few quick tips: Hire people whose skills complement your strengths, not just...
by Bill Sterrett | Aug 5, 2015 | Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, Operations Management, Project Management
Being a successful General Manager requires a diverse set of competencies that involve both people skills as well as process skills. Let’s examine these competencies. Competencies: Results Orientation, Strategic Orientation, Developing Others, Impact and...
by Bill Sterrett | Jul 13, 2015 | General Manager, Project Management
Your project sponsor and Project Control Board (PCB) are your advocates. Your project sponsor or project owner is the person that you (as the Project Manager) are delivering your project for, so it is very important that he or she is fully across how everything on the...
by Bill Sterrett | Jun 3, 2015 | Operations Management, Project Management
I’ve been looking at the remediation activities that I have recently been involved in and started to gather some strong evidence as to that sort of things that clearly add to project failure. Here I will capture a few of them. 1. Business processes aren’t fully...
