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Exepron Sparks Danfoss Project Delivery Capacities
Thursday, August 02, 2018Danfoss Cooling embraces Exepron’s CCPM solution and achieves a 91% on-time delivery from almost 0% in the prior year. Have you been in a situation where a concerned customer calls you and asks you “where is my product?” and you don’t know what to answer? This best describes the situation at Danfoss’s Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Controls Division in Latin America before...
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Complex Project Management—What it is, and What Success Looks Like
Tuesday, July 31, 2018Written by Kerri Hale Join us at our upcoming Annual Workshop - where we dive deeper into topics like this New York City is revered for its magnificent skyline and impressive buildings. Yet, nothing captivates picture-snapping tourists quite like the Empire State Building. An American...
Read MoreExepron’s Project Portfolio Management PPM,
Monday, May 15, 2017With Exepron’s Project Portfolio Management PPM, we are connecting executives and project managers with the tools needed to transform complex project environments and deliver significantly improved results. In a world where late delivery results in significant cost consequences, Exepron provides your organization with a competitive advantage. With proven results of 95% on-time delivery consistently achieved in 20% less time. We'd love to show you how...
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Building Executable Project Plans – Part 2
Tuesday, August 09, 2016Part 1 provided an introduction to projects and the need to plan a project. Contribution by Kathy Austin Summary: Project networks are the building blocks to complete a project successfully. If you don’t have enough building blocks and you have to get more during execution, the project likely fails to meet its...
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Building Executable Project Plans - Part 1
Tuesday, August 02, 2016The probability of Success increases with solid preparation. This is absolutely true in Project Management. Incomplete, incorrect or too detailed Project Networks simply cannot produce a good result. Read this foundational white paper on how to build good project networks. Well known authors Kathy Austin and Gerry Kendall have codified a “Best Practice” for Project Managers. Critical Chain projects are particularly successful when starting...
Read MoreA better way: Exepron's project management system saves the day
Tuesday, June 16, 2015Global software offering 2015 U.S. training seminar Only 38 percent of projects finish on time and within budget, according to research by Project Management Institute (PMI). “Organizations continue wasting $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs,” according to Mark A. Langley, president and CEO of PMI. Within the last year, only half of projects finished...
Read MoreCritical Chain Thinking: Adding the 3rd Dimension
Wednesday, July 31, 2013The development of project management thinking and new techniques has, at times, been slow and deliberate. Read how to break the pattern by adding the 3rd dimension to critical chain project management. By Daniel P. Walsh Critical Chain Thinking: Adding the 3rd Dimension (PDF - 775KB)
Read MoreCritical Chain: Modeling Complex and Large Projects
Wednesday, July 31, 2013This article focuses on the idea of building smaller projects based within a larger project versus having a large project with many variables that can be difficult to comprehend and manage. Learn more about managing complex projects by reading the entire article. Critical Chain: Modeling Complex and Large Projects (PDF - 1490KB)
Read MoreExecuting Company Strategy Like a Nascar Race
Wednesday, July 10, 2013TOC International's Gerald Kendall explains how the use of Exepron's Critical Chain Project Management software is being used to overcome the behaviors that hinder "Strategy Execution". In addition, he describes how to remove perpetual delays in execution and how the use of Exepron is "like having a personal assistant with us every single day." Executing Company Strategy Like a Nascar Race (PDF - 629 KB)
Read MoreCritical Chain and Critical Path – What’s the Difference?
Wednesday, July 03, 2013I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that Critical Chain is a paradigm shift in project management practices. What I mean by “paradigm shift” is that the required change in project behavior is so radical that you cannot use your experience to predict the outcome. By Gerald I. Kendall, TOC International. Critical Chain and Critical Path – What’s the Difference? (PDF...
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