CHAPTER 1Project Management: A Platform for Innovation
INTRODUCTION
Projects dominate our headlines.
A pandemic, economic upheaval, and an environmental crisis demand innovative thinking, courageous leadership, and globally orchestrated action. Technological innovation is a relentless engine of growth and destruction.
The need to respond to a global pandemic has forced organizations large and small to react quickly, learn rapidly, and make critical decisions based on shifting circumstances. Every response is a project.
Innovation in energy production has changed assumptions about how cars, buildings, and factories are powered. Installing solar panels and windmills, scientific research, closing out‐of‐date power plants, and launching electric car companies are all projects.
Projects dominate our workplace.
Our project‐driven workforce repairs freeways, releases social media apps, makes films, remodels our houses, and searches for medicines and therapies to protect and heal us. Businesses shift supply chains. Nonprofits open below‐market rental housing to ease economic pressures on working families. We are constantly transforming our global civilization in tiny increments. One project at a time.
Innovation, more than ever before, is a must‐have capability for every organization. We do not all need to be inventors, scientists, and software developers to innovate. Throughout this book, innovation means bringing a fresh solution to a problem that matters to people. Innovation is ...
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