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Gathering Leading-Edge Ideas
Dec 22,2008 00:00
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Gathering Leading-Edge Ideas As you progressed through the skill sets, I’m sure you saw that the subjects were not only getting deeper, they were getting broader as well. At this point, breadth and depth are infinite. There are many experts in project management who are advancing the field. But there are also experts in other fields, such as mathematics, psychology, and sociology, who have ideas that are applicable to our field. There are good ideas in places we never dreamed that could contribute to our discipline. Now, you have the visibility that can make farreaching contributions to project management in your company and perhaps in other places as well. At this point, it is imperative that you keep up with what’s going on around you. Your attention should be drawn to reading such books as Rethinking the Future by Rowan Gibson, Alvin Toffler, and Heidi Toffler and The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. You should attend such seminars as Developing and Executing a Customer-Centric Strategy and question the application of Knowledge Management to what’s going on in your organization. By all means these are not the only areas you should investigate; these are presented here just to give some idea of the kinds of directions your interests may take at this point. At the outset of this book and many times later, I said that project management is an evolving discipline. It is not today what it was yesterday, and it will not be tomorrow what it is today. The evolution comes from leading-edge ideas. At first, these ideas are ‘‘soft’’; that is, they are conceptual. As they grow and evolve, however, they become more ‘‘firm.’’ |