Last week’s blog had a number of interesting topics, from web publishing with Office 2010 to the use of SWOT analysis techniques in your BPM project.
Hope you had a great weekend. Mike Cunningham
Using the SWOT technique in your BPM project
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 12th, 2011
To use the SWOT technique in your BPM project use the following guidelines when building the matrix or table: Strengths: characteristics of the BPM project that give it an advantage over other potential projects competing for the same budget or staff resources. This might be a ROI analysis or support of important goals and objectives [...]
SWOT Analysis for your BPM project
Posted in Change Management, Process Analysis, Project Management on Aug 11th, 2011
Yesterday evening I was running a Goals Setting workshop and I included a SWOT Analysis into the training program. This worked so well for the workshop, I thought it would be a good idea to add into planning for BPM projects. Just a refresher and reminder what a SWOT analysis is: Here is the definition [...]
Using bookmarks and hyperlinks in MS Word 2010 with TaskMap
Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 10th, 2011
The ability to set a hyperlink pointer to individual bookmarks in Office 2010 is no longer supported with native Office 2010 MS Word files; these are ones with the doc or docx. extensions. If you want to create hyperlinks to individual bookmarks using the TaskMap hyperlinking function, then follow these instructions. Click the images for [...]
PowerPoint Publishing to the Web with TaskMap and Office 2010
Posted in Process Mapping on Aug 9th, 2011
The ability to set a hyperlink pointer to individual slides in Office 2010 is no longer supported with native Office 2010 PowerPoint files; these are ones with the pptx. extension. If you want to create hyperlinks to individual slides using the TaskMap hyperlinking function, then follow these instructions. 1. Open file in PowerPoint 2. Select Save [...]
Leadership when the chips are down: The Blame Game
Posted in Project Management, Uncategorized on Aug 8th, 2011
We all recognize leadership in projects, businesses and organizations. Today, in the United States we are looking hard to find it in our politicians. Now this is not a political column, but there are times when we look around us and just despair at the lack of leadership. The summer of 2011 will go down [...]
