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Hero-villains have been around pop culture for a long, long time, proving that bad behavior can be powerfully fascinating.

This post is autonomous but can be seen as a complement to my previous post technology & organization. I treat here the dynamic aspect of the relation between technology & organization in industrial companies.

Medium & large industrial companies (oil & gas, telecoms, pharmaceuticals, equipment manufacturing, automotive…) tend to have different structures. Let’s see why.

This post analyzes the unforeseen bureaucratic effect brought by managerial succession.

This post reviews the main misalignments Project Management may suffer within a company.

The rationalizing of the Project Manager’s role & responsibilities has somehow both improved & hindered some of the key aspects of project management.

It is easy to fall in the trap of the cultural stereotype when negotiating internationally. Do not let it ruin your “date”.

Scheduling is omnipresent in business. All functions use it, from manufacturing & supply to strategy & finance. Unfortunately, scheduling is like a gremlin: If you don’t master it, soon this nice little gizmo will turn itself into a beast wreaking havoc.

In this post you can read “organization” & “environment” not only as they are (a company within its environment) but also as a subgroup within a group.

A century ago, in 1916, while WWI was raging, Henri Fayol, who was 75 years old and still at the head of a mining corporation, published his General & industrial management, the 110-page founding book of modern business management.

To lead, you must have an efficient method of investigating the social conditions surrounding you. If the check is correct, the way forward to act will naturally show itself.

Apart from a 1-year Japanese evening class in my last year of engineering school, and a trolleybus project

for Mexico with Japan-based Mitsubishi as customer, my Japanese fluency remains meagre but few words have stayed, thanks to lean management. 

For those unfamiliar with the latter term, holacracy is one of the latest & hotest models of organizational structure.

We all have seen this slide passed on inkedin a few times with many likes on it, or elsewhere.

Yet, due to an apparently “classic” bug with the comment button, I could not reply. So here it is.

A maturity model is a powerful tool that enables a company to self-assess & to build a strong basis for its optimal growth. Don’t go changing your company without one.

 This post is the last of a series of three posts in which we will overview the basic definitions, yet sometimes not so well applied, of Portfolio, Program & Project management.

We focus here on the bottom layer:

This post is the second of a series of three posts in which we will overview the basic definitions, yet sometimes not so well applied, of Portfolio, Program & Project management.

We focus here on the middle layer:

This post is the first of a series of three posts in which we will overview the basic definitions, yet sometimes not so well applied, of Portfolio, Program & Project management.

We focus here on the top layer: