Thematic working at innovation processes gives the organisation the opportunity of improving the quality of its product development process in throughput time, cost control, and in product and production quality. The aim of thematic working is that the whole organisation is responsible for the results of projects, like for example: maximum client satisfaction; the supply of components at the assembly lines operating with optimal logistics; effective quality control during production and the ease of product installation and maintenance. During the development process, one can also include in the objectives, sustainability constraints, like for example labour safety; health and welfare legislation and environment protection. The main differences between "innovation project management" and "infrastructure project management' are:

• unpredictable outcomes of project activities will change the planning continuously;
• despite the changes in the planning one still has to aim for achieving the milestones in time;
• the outcome of the project is not certain;
• the outcome of the project can be manipulated;
• the project can always be stopped;
• the predicted turnover of the project after the introduction has a direct relation to the costs of the development process;
• the planned expenditure is higher than the expenditures of the project when it is in its most uncertain stage;
• the project manager is faced with strategic decisions during the development process;
• the risks can be higher than the project costs;

During innovation processes it appears that the project resources ‘time’ is the most important factor and should have the highest priority. Extra project turnover can be generated thus saving ‘money’ with the usage of less time.

A project requires more attention for outsourcing development activities or (parts of) production to third parties. Purchased components from different sources must be assembled to get an operational product in the end. On the other side one should take care that unique characteristics remain protected against plagiarism.

Project Management is.......


• Entrepreneurship for balancing costs and benefits.
  
• Leadership and more than coordination alone....
  
• Anticipation on threats and chances
  
• Visionary communication to all stakeholders
  
• A trustee for project team members and the Executive Board
• The mediator for all stakeholders
• The one with the helicopter view for all internal and external processes
• The one that can convince all for changing processes based on facts

Cordia Product Realisatie B.V. supports you...


• For training inexperienced project managers "on the job" as coach and operational support;
  
• As interim project management for achieving results and improving the project methodology at the same time;
  
• As operational project manager for setting up new projects in definition and planning;
  
• For enabling project managers to achieve their project results faster for lower costs with higher quality;
• For enabling the company to be more effective with projects and services;
  
• For new strategic chances during the development process;