Last week I posted online a series of articles, on various management issues- Crisis, Contract, Confidentiality, service, project.
The title of the series? “Method_” something (search for “Method_” on the front page of this blog).
This article presents a series of considerations- not as a summary, but as a collection of ideas.
If you are a professional project/programme or service manager, probably this short article will sound funny- and match with some memories from your own experience.
And if you are a project manager who found that eventually the project that (s)he was managing became a project only by name- I can say that you are not alone.
If you are neither working in project nor service management- you are anyway surrounded by “projects”, “programmes”, “risk management”, “service providers”, “suppliers”, and discussions about “budgets”- be it the annual rite of passage through a Parliament, your home renovation, or just your vacation planning.
Recently, a former classmate in London asked if I assumed that the private sector is more flexible than the public sector
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My reply? Not necessarily- as the degree of flexibility within any organization is limited by the need to ensure what I call its “structural integrity”.
This relatively short article presents the concept and few case studies.
As promised in “Sharing intellectual property“, this is a the first publication.
This example is not a theoretical example: it is material from a real project- but, of course, some information is not available online.
I used to share this information with specific startups, but the interesting part is not producing the final spreadsheets (what I call “number crunching”).
It is the process that takes you from the idea up to having a completed business plan. And you will find here both the process the material to apply it to your own new activity.
The title sounds a mouthful?
Well, you can thank WordPress: the original title was “Non-regulatory approach toward systemic risk management and entropy reduction” 
Moving down to Earth- what is the purpose of this posting?
Sharing, as usual, experience. But this time, something more: a business model and plan.
If you identify the “risks”, what could affect the conditions that you assumed that could affect your execution of the plan, then you will end up monitoring that:
It is not just the journey that you have to keep in check; it is also the destination.
This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.