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Monitoring Employee Satisfaction – The Advantages, Considerations and Risks

July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Although there are distinct advantages to conducting regular employee satisfaction surveys online to measuring employee satisfaction – there can also be risks. Documented here are the main advantages, considerations and the possible risks to conducting employee satisfaction surveys online.

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20 Top Tips to Writing Effective Surveys

June 28th, 2009 · 716 Comments

  How to create a survey using Survey Galaxy Writing surveys is considered easy; but is it? The reality is that writing surveys is easy but writing surveys that will be effective is a little bit more difficult. The following tips will help you with your survey questionnaire design so you can write more effective [...]

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Don’t Leave a Broken Window Broken

June 19th, 2009 · 628 Comments

If a building’s broken window is not repaired promptly it doesn’t take long for many of the building’s other windows to be broken. Fixing problems when they are small will prevent them from developing into more serious problems.

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Twenty Top Tips to Writing Effective Surveys

June 16th, 2009 · 14 Comments

  How to create a survey using Survey Galaxy Writing surveys is easy; or is it? The truth is that creating surveys is easy but creating effective surveys is more difficult. The following twenty tips will help you write more effective surveys.

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Why You Should Do Market Research

June 15th, 2009 · 727 Comments

Market research is an essential element of any organization that wants to offer products or services that are focused and well targeted. Business decisions based on good market research can help minimise any risk and should pay dividends in the longer term. By making market research part and parcel of the business process and conducting [...]

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Sensible Incentivizing

May 14th, 2009 · 45 Comments

Looking at lessons learned from the current economic crisis, one that stands out pertains to how people are incentivized in business. Banks with risky loan portfolios somewhere along the line had incentivized their people to fill their portofolios with these loans. Somewhere along the line, the incentives did not incorporate some of the risks involved. How does this play out in project and program management?

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The Importance Of Deliverables

April 14th, 2009 · 1,891 Comments

Invariably, the same projects are defined later by people describing things that they worked on and activities that they did. What is missing many times are key deliverables.

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If Failure Is Not An Option, Don’t Talk About It

March 11th, 2009 · 73 Comments

In most situations on projects, failure simply is not an option. The project or program must succeed one way or another. We need to grapple with whether to do the project on one level; but once that decision has been made, it needs to be executed successfully.

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Communicating a Clear and Positive Way Ahead

March 10th, 2009 · 691 Comments

Project and program managers today are in a position of needing to grapple with many tough choices. We need to assess and re-assess our options and, in an almost tortuous way, develop a positive way ahead to communicate with our stakeholders. For us, the process of going through that struggle is important. But to our stakeholders, what is important is the positive way ahead that we have developed.

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Beware The Programmatics Trap

March 6th, 2009 · 893 Comments

Many project management positions are just that — positions managing projects. However, many other positions seemingly in project management are much more positions in programmatics. They involve tracking, reporting, working with metrics, and passing information on to decision makers. While, often, there is a need for these functions, there, often, also is not.

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