In this Lunch & Learn, you'll learn that: Innovation has had two decades of software-centric methodologies. Project success rates are not great. The employee experience is not great. What makes innovation difficult is not software, so this should be no surprise. What makes innovation difficult are people – how we interact, collaborate, and compete with each other. Therefore, a people-centric methodology is not revolutionary. It’s just overdue. This session explains how small changes to three well-known references is the recipe for a people-centric methodology. These changes raise a team’s discipline and empathy, simplify messy project plans, and convert your organization’s…

Register Have you ever looked at the franchise business and wondered what it takes to own something like that? Well, researching options for franchise ownership is a Project. There are scope elements, strategies, requirements, risk mitigations, schedules, cost management, funding, and the finished product... clarity about what to do in the end. Executing the decision and standing up the franchise is an entirely different project. In this Lunch & Learn, Catherine Knabb will cover steps that are common to franchise research, including those that are important to reduce the risk of an ill-advised decision or a poorly selected brand. She…