What can PMs do about continuous improvement?
We can apply our skills and experience to transformation ideas, change/transformation projects and programmes. • Bring structure: After all, it is a key characteristic of PMs to be organized, structured, paying attention to details… We can apply these very skills with great success to transformation initiatives. We will collect the base data about all on going transformations and change ideas for a given domain, organization or division. At the initiative or idea level, we will structure it like we do for projects. We will identify information gaps and then fill these gaps. We will position/categorize all initiatives into consistent buckets; propose criteria for prioritization of the overall portfolio of ideas together with a simple overall process to manage the portfolio. For example, define what stages an idea would go through before it eventually becomes a project and delivers benefits to the company. These stages could be: unqualified idea, real opportunity, launched initiative/pro
