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Project management is a rigorous way of thinking about work that applies to all projects, regardless of content, size or complexity. —James Lewis
Paul · Paul Grace asserts: "In the society of the 21st century, everything is a project, and everything must become a project." "Project management has gradually become a tool for enterprises to survive and develop in today's era of rapid change.
During world war II, project management was mainly applied in the military industry, and then gradually entered the field of civilian industry. By the 1990s, the application field of project management became more and more extensive, and project management entered a period of generalization.
There are many project-based companies, and the dominant form of their business operations is one project after another, such as engineering construction companies, consulting companies, advertising companies, and training companies. Even law firms treat one entrusted incident after another as projects.
Those non-project separate organizations are also introducing project management on a large scale, such as IBM, Microsoft, HP and Procter & Gamble and other companies that operate globally will not only be able to project-based work as much as possible, but also require the company's newly hired college graduates to learn project management, they have regarded project management as a basic management skill for training and promotion.
Coincidentally, among local Chinese companies, Huawei, ZTE, Tencent and other companies are also introducing project management on a large scale.
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Huawei President Ren Zhengfei pointed out at Huawei's regional president meeting in the fourth quarter of 2014 that Huawei's current project management level is still very low and wasteful, which is a drawback brought about by the past centered on functional departments, and Huawei will next pilot project-centered management, gradually enabling the combat team to have more rights and supervision to cooperate with the emergence of the authorization system.
Even industries that used to think that project management was useless, such as property management, beauty industry, schools, etc., have also introduced project management to manage activities managed by non-project management methods in the past, and even in the lives of the people at home, they will find the epitome of project management, such as the hot decoration diary on the Internet is often a typical and grounded project management case.
The wave of project management has swept so truly that both organizations and individuals are not only witnesses, but also undoubted participants.
Motorola has been a leading icon of cutting-edge technology and excellence, enjoying the status of one of the world's most respected companies. It once created a new industrial field every 10 years, and even two new industrial fields in 10 years. In the past 80 years since its establishment, Motorola has invented car radios, color TV picture tubes, all-transistor color televisions, semiconductor microprocessors, walkie-talkies, pagers, big brothers and "Six Sigma" quality management system certification, it has created automotive electronics, transistor color TV, cluster communications, semiconductors, mobile communications, mobile phones and other industries, and for a long time in various fields in the invincible, leading the way.
On August 15, 2011, Google acquired Motorola for $12.5 billion. On January 30, 2014, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. Google made a serious loss-making deal!
As we all know, Motorola's project management has been recognized as a leading level in the industry. But a poor strategy brought the once-big Mac down.
If an ordinary male student (my graduate student calls it "Di Si") completely ignores the existence of Zhao Youting and intends to marry the national goddess Gao Yuanyuan, the estimated probability of success is almost zero, which is a selective error (wrong direction). If the boy intends to marry a single girl (classmate, colleague, neighbor, etc.) next to him, it may be more reliable.
Of course, whether this single girl can be married home depends on how well the project management process from courtship to marriage proposal is done. If it is well managed, if the two sides are in agreement, the door is right, and the stakeholders on both sides are satisfied, this matter will succeed; if the management is not good, such as wishful thinking, the conditions of the two sides are very different, and the stakeholders are not satisfied, this matter will also fail.
In reality, many failures are caused by selective errors.
To be successful, first choose the right direction and then use the right approach. Choosing the right direction belongs to strategic management, and using the right method belongs to project management; in other words, strategic management comes first and project management comes later. In a sense, strategic management is at a higher level than project management.
Of course, how to do the right thing is not only a matter for subordinates to consider, it is not a dispensable thing, it is precisely the most important thing for managers to spend energy.
Mao Zedong believed that with the correct line and policy, cadres were the decisive factor. For companies, project management is often the decisive factor when the strategy is in place.