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Aaron Smith
(November 17, 2005)
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If the world’s business-innovation playing field is flattening, and the digital revolution is the ‘steamroller’ driving the change, then the discipline of project management is riding shotgun, helping team leaders, knowledge experts and mutual stakeholders speak the same language … the language for getting things done.
What’s Japanese for “scope” … Chinese for “schedule” … Indian for “budget”? As New York Times reporter Thomas Friedman declared this year in his insightful book “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century,” technological advancements are removing cultural and political barriers by connecting people — and, yes, project teams — across the world.
Indeed, if the world’s business-innovation playing field is flattening, and the digital revolution is the “steamroller” driving these changes, then the discipline of project management is riding shotgun, helping team leaders, knowledge experts and mutual stakeholders speak the same language — the language, that is, for getting things done.
Membership in the Project Management Institute (PMI) doubled last year in India, China and Japan, and that international growth shows no signs of slowing any time soon.
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