Positive tension in multidisciplinary teams

In multidisciplinary teams people often say that they have trouble understanding each other. They use the same terms, but have different meanings for them. That can be confusing, but at the same time it is the source of innovation and creativity. Like-minded experts tend to agree and to repeat what has worked so well before. […]

The co-creative company – we are not alone

Customers and partners increasingly want to participate in the value creation. In this situation the smart company introduces a co-creation process to make the interaction easy and pleasant experience. This is the human centric approach to innovation that co-creative companies understand. People want to be personally engaged in the products and services that they consume. In a […]

How to start a new project?

Much of the working life is organized as projects. But there is a catch. A project is always a temporary job and you have to figure out how to get into new projects while working hard on the current one. That means scouting opportunities within the organization and sometimes looking for new challenges outside the […]

How to hit a moving target in your project

One of the key issues for all projects is scope. Scope is the target, the objective that you want to achieve in your project. What you are aiming at. Creepy or not, scope is a moving target in research and development projects. That move is called figuratively scope creep. Sometimes the scope is not creeping but running. Ambiguity […]

Bid Manager vs. Project Manager

Having a background in project management is great when you are faced with the task of planning a new project. You know how to get things done. However, managing a bid and writing a project proposal is fundamentally different from managing a project. There are two main differences that a bid and project manager must […]