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“Before the pandemic, not many companies had work-from-home policies.”COVID-19 is a big topic in the real estate world. From my vantage point, two major shifts are taking place. The first involves the safety of the workplace. Corporate real estate professionals are...

“Preparing people for the workplace is actually going to be a much more complex scenario than anyone realizes.” I think the biggest priority right now is the safety of employees. Initially, we focused on making places safe for when people return. Organizations have...

“Imagine a changed world in which project managers and project sponsors alike are rewarded based on business benefits achieved rather than the delivery of project outcomes.”Advanced technologies are changing every aspect of business operations, and managing complex...

“Resourcing decisions force managers to balance risks and benefits …. and the effects those decisions will have on other processes and projects.”One of the biggest challenges business managers face is deciding where to focus key projects, budgets, and time to best...

“A project manager’s ability to make good decisions is only as good as what he or she knows. What aproject manager knows is only as good as the dataavailable.” A significant challenge to effectively managing projects is how to overcome the disconnect between...

“When faced with complex situations or large amountsof data, people often filter information through biasesthat prevent them from deriving the most businessvalue from that data.”In today’s data-driven business process environment, achieving desired outcomes depends on...

“Useful lessons learned are easily lost. For many project managers, the lessons they learn come from their own experiences rather than a database of past projects.”The Project Management community periodically discusses challenge areas in project management....

“Transparency is a rare commodity in acomplex project.”In project management, we spend a lot of time and money forecasting what we think is going to happen. Predicting a future outcome and spotting problems are fundamental to the process because those insights drive...

“The ability to identify problems and address them asquickly as possible depends on the team’s knowledgeand experience.” Complex projects typically have many people involved. For instance, when we do a website project, we have our own team of subject matter experts,...