Business & Personal Growth

  Change Management is one of the most important aspects to manage when it comes to managing large-scale projects. Changes are inevitable in a project, coming from any part of the project lifecycle & can have a significant impact on the overall project’s success criteria. To insulate from its adverse effect, there is a change management framework in place at a project level. Similar to this, we do need a change management strategy at an organizational level to absorb all the potential effects that various dynamics surrounding the business pose at them. Changing the business landscape paves way for new market opportunities, with customers shifting the way they choose & interact with their brands, forcing organizations to manage change. Technology is the key enabler these days to digitize their business offerings in the way customers expect. Faster time to market, hyper-customization & personalization & enhanced service quality puts changemakers at the helm to formula...

 We have always been reading & knowing about the activities/tasks, Project Managers or Program Managers are incessantly involved in. I myself have been writing on them and the skills they need to excel in. One of the things that are being put under the spotlight about this role is becoming an effective leader. While there is a lot to talk about in having superior leadership skills, there are a few key emotional aspects a leader should exhibit in his quest of becoming a distinguished & transformative leader. And these are more relevant now than ever before. They are closely linked with the behaviors that they display amidst their daily project routines. It is about the core principles they follow while dealing with their team in getting their project work executed. A few of them are outlined as below: Stewardship: This is an ethic most commonly found in great leaders across the world. Being an awesome leader doesn’t come with the title or position you hold, it comes by insp...

  Living in these unprecedented times has led organizations across industries & sectors to rapidly transform their strategy to stay in sync with the continuously evolving business needs. Technology became an underlying aspect and a major enabler in transforming their business model. They are forced to recalibrate their operating model, purpose & strategy, processes formulated, talent acquired and technology used so that they adapt to these changing times and disruption. Digital transformation is about restructuring their products & services in such a way to provide the right solutions at the right place at the right time. It is about ensuring the realization of the maximum business value to their existing & their potential customers by going digital in their offerings and value-chain. While redesigning the business strategy might seem like a drive from the top-level C-suite only, there needs to be wide distribution of this decision-making initiative across an orga...