Project Management

• Isn’t Project Management the opposite of Innovation?

  Over the many years that I have been both teaching Project Management and working with companies to resolve both general and project Management issues, I have heard this statement a surprising number of times.

  In my view they are wrong but I do know what they mean. The term innovation, by its very nature defines the new, the leap-forward, creativity and excitement. The popular view of Project Management however is that it is about structure, about being methodical, meticulous and largely just plain boring!

  "It is purely an argument of left brain versus right brain".

  I do not agree that the two are mutually exclusive and I thought it might be an interesting topic to explore in this article.

  Mark Guiney MEI, MAIPM   1/08/2010 12:00:00 AM