Any company striving to challenge the likes of Intel and Microsoft must be innovative. That much goes without saying. If it isn’t, then it will surely be left trailing in the wake of the high‐tech giants. Sun Microsystems offers alternative technology to the big two and can certainly be...

Product development management has evolved through major generations, and each successive generation has enabled far greater performance than the previous one. In the 1990s, aggressive competitors used time‐based product strategies to alter the competitive balance in their industries by...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – Scans the top 400 management publications in the world to identify the most topical issues and latest...

Purpose – Most development processes have the effect of putting innovation in a straitjacket. This is because they encourage heavy up‐front planning followed by sticking to the plan, which imposes considerable constraint on change during a project. Unfortunately, change in product...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the onboarding process with reference to the change management model ADKAR to improve effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach Change management phases and project management phases of the ADKAR model are applied to onboarding process, and...

Purpose – Highlights the benefits of project-management training at two organizations – AMEC the multinational engineering, project-management and consultancy firm, and nuclear-energy company Magnox. Design/methodology/approach – Considers the reasons for training at the two organizations,...

In November 1998, Softlab, a BMW Group company and leading European software provider and systems integrator, appointed project management specialists, the newly launched Professional Development Team (PDT), to assess project managers throughout the company, both individually and as teams. A...

Considers the many demands facing managers in modern organizations, particularly following the effects of downsizing and flattened organizational structures. Managers have to be concerned with, variously, product and/or service quality, financial planning and accountability, organizational...