The Corporate Need—A “Warm Body” Concept

More and more, the successful business is the one that can quickly and effectively react to a rapidly changing marketplace. It must be able to respond to its competitor’s challenges in the market. This means it must be able to change rapidly, and to manage that change in such a manner that there are no downstream reverberations, thereby quelling the effectiveness of the change.

These changes are effected by means of projects—the business endeavor having a specific start and end date, producing a specific set of deliverables (changes), and consuming a predetermined number of corporate resources.

Project management continues to become more challenging and we think this trend will continue. This means we ...

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