Focus on Boeing and the State of Arizona Manufacturing is responsible for a great deal of pollution in our environment, extending as far back as the 1700s. Anyone reading this article can probably easily recall pictures from grade-school history books depicting the early American factories of the industrial revolution: Smokey, dirty, and dangerous.  The effects of these historic factories on the environment and those of the following centuries have created a negative stereotype that manufacturing [...]

Dealing with and leading change is possibly one of the most challenging tasks a leader faces.  The leadership of change is made difficult because organizations have developed a culture to eliminate variation; to standardize processes— to resist the forces of change that tend to disrupt processes and create new and different ones.  If history of change is the judge, most organizations fail to change when they should, and those who do try, most also fail [...]

The Project Management Institute released its annual global outlook for the project management industry, the Pulse of the Profession.   Over 1,000 project professionals participated in the research, which concludes with identifying five areas of focus for 2012: Talent development Tight economic conditions Shifting market conditions Organizational agility Project benefits realization When examining the list, two of the focus areas are external to organizations and three are internal.  When contemplating the two external factors, tight economic [...]