Yearly Archives: 2018
Project Management in the World of Trump
For a bit of fun, we took a look at our current President and his project management prowess in light of our previous work on hierarchies of teams… i.e., would he be a great project manager???? Different leadership styles, creating high energy and success President Trump is known for his confrontational style of negotiation and high energy. As a business leader who enjoys competition and a need to win, he emulates another President, Teddy Roosevelt. Both men are marked by wanting to do great things and leave their mark on…
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How to increase profit through rightsizing your Quality System
This is a series of blogs geared around accelerating product development through clinical study (animal, cadaver, or FIM). Successful medical device companies have been developing products for decades but along the way, some have developed quality systems no longer adequate to achieving competitive speed to market in the current landscape. There are many reasons for this: additions due to internal issues, embracing all FDA “suggestions” for improvement, general institutional scope creep inside the best-intended methodologies of creating safe, effective, and approvable medical devices The results have yielded quality and…
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Hierarchy of Teams
Abraham Maslow theorized that we as humans have a hierarchy of motivation that transcends from getting our basic human needs met to stay alive all the way through self-actualization. As a team of project managers, we see the same kinds of dynamics at play in the hierarchy of what a project team needs. Waddell Group segmented four levels of team quality and identified the qualities of each. Further, we have identified attributes of these stages to enable identification of the level or stage at which your team operates. The categories…
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