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Flexible Development and Management Strategies: Intimately Knowing Your Team and Product Portfolio

Innovation Excellence

In today’s technologically-connected world, it’s becoming easier than ever to communicate across distance and disciplines to learn from others. PPM differs from product management in that it considers every product offered and how they are related, as opposed to focusing on just one product and the processes contained within.

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Ford's Impressive Sustainability Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Given those science-based plans, Ford is investing in the long-term — the sexy, new EV market that everyone is going after — and rolling out a series of efficiency technologies in the existing, combustion-engine fleet. The 2011 Ford Explorer, for example, is using EcoBoost engine technology to improve fuel efficiency by 25%.

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The First 90 Days in a New CIO Position

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. Our Project Management Office is therefore enthusiastically pursuing new PPM capabilities that will enhance the transparency of our decision making processes.

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Corporations Will Never Solve Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

A recent UK report argued against the efficacy of voluntary measures, but the presence of 400 ppm CO 2 in the atmosphere should be enough to prove the point. .” The reality is that voluntary corporate greening measures don’t achieve scale, and therefore aren’t climate solutions. But it just hasn’t happened.

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