This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...

“I thought that was OK because it didn’t say I couldn’t do that in the SOP.” Have you ever heard that from one of your crewmembers when you confronted them for making a mistake or bad judgment call?

Critical path management is a method for identifying, scheduling and dealing with tasks that directly affect a project's end date. Unlike project tasks that have some degree of float, critical path ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of strategy+business. Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But they face a ...