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Project planning specifies scopes, goals, timelines, resources, and costs through eight essential steps including scope identification, task breakdown, timeline creation, resource planning, cost calculation, quality standards, risk preparation, and stakeholder communication. Learn practical tools like Gantt charts and prioritization matrices.
Lewin's Change Management Model is a three-stage framework for organizational change: Unfreeze, Change, and Refreeze. Learn how to prepare your organization for change, implement improvements effectively, and make new processes stick. Discover step-by-step processes for each stage to successfully manage organizational transformation.
SWOT Analysis examines your organization's internal Strengths and Weaknesses alongside external Opportunities and Threats. This powerful business tool helps assess efficiency, manage risks, discover opportunities, and improve strategic planning. Simple to conduct yet highly effective for organizational improvement.
The Ansoff Matrix is a strategic planning tool that helps businesses analyze four growth strategies: market penetration, product development, market development, and diversification. Each strategy carries different levels of risk, with diversification being the riskiest approach requiring careful planning and execution.
Kotter's 8-step change model provides a proven framework for leading organizational transformation through creating urgency, building coalitions, forming vision, enlisting volunteers, enabling action, generating wins, sustaining acceleration, and instituting change. The steps should be worked on simultaneously, not sequentially. The model appeals to both logic and emotions while anchoring change in culture.
Critical Chain Project Management uses buffer time strategically instead of padding individual task estimates, addressing common project delays from student syndrome, multitasking, and path convergence issues. Major companies report completing projects in half the time after implementing CCPM methods.