Incorporating Sustainability into Your PMO
I was recently called into an organization to work with their Project Management Office (PMO), to help translate executive level requirements for sustainability into day-to-day actions within the...
View ArticleMaking Sustainability A Business Decision
In Harvard Business Review (March 2013), there is an article entitled Making Sustainability Profitable (Haaneaes, K. Michael, D and Rangan, S.)...
View ArticleTowards Business Design Principles for Strongly Sustainable Organizations
I’m busy writing up my thesis right now: “Towards an Ontology and Canvas for Strongly Sustainable Business Models: A Systemic Design Science Exploration“. Based on my considerable progress over the...
View ArticleThe Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group
I chaired a meeting tonight for the Canadian branch of Certified Management Consultants (CMCs), where I had the pleasure of introducing Antony Upward and his ground breaking sustainability research,...
View ArticleDo We Need A Sustainability Body of Knowledge for Project Managers?
Based on some of the discussions happening within our IISPM Sustainability Community of Practice (SCoP), and the sustainability space at large, I wanted to comment on the IISPM perspective of whether...
View ArticleRe-stating the IISPM Manifesto for Sustainable Projects
I thought it was time to once again publish the IISPM Manifesto for Sustainable Projects! We live in a world where sustainability is no longer a term tossed around by fringe groups but rather is now...
View ArticleIs the modern day business analyst lacking the skills to work in a...
I’ve been involved in writing books, articles, courses and training people around the world in the discipline of “Business Analysis” as defined by the new IIBA (International Institute of Business...
View ArticleSustainable Business Trasnformation
I’ve been thinking a lot about how businesses need to adapt or die in the current economic environment. A strong statement I know, but nonetheless true. I’ve been looking for some way to describe...
View ArticleWho Sold My Cheese?
Outsourcing Insourcing Downsizing Off-shoring Trade agreements Reducing operational overhead Increasing bottom line margins Growth through mergers and acquisition Streamlining Lean...
View ArticleA Proposed Solution to “Who Sold My Cheese?” by Antony Upward
Antony Upward recently wrote: TINA vs. LOIS Margaret Thatcher famously said “There Is No Alternative” but to maintain the historical approach to generating flourishing via GDP growth...
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