Is Your Big Project Super Complex?
All big projects are complex. But, what makes big projects ‘super’ is how they engage with, even embrace, complexity.
Super Projects meet complexity and uncertainty, not with rigid plans and bureaucracy, but with speed, agility, collaboration and innovation.
Have you got complexity under control? Well, if the answer is ‘yes’ maybe you should think again! To deal with a complex external environment requires first mastering internal complexity.
Here we introduce a new metric – the C2 Score – a metric for internal & external complexity. The objective is not just to measure but to engage with complexity in a new way.
Leaders are typically well-attuned to external complexity. However, the real danger arises when external complexity is met with internal complexity. The result is complexity squared (C2) and it can feel chaotic.
Our data suggests those charged with ‘making things happen’ tend to see up to 20% more complexity than senior leaders. Put another way, leaders often underestimate […]
While complexity in organizations, markets, and life grows, the challenge isn’t the complexity itself but how we engage with it. Successful engagement requires adaptive and inclusive approaches, avoiding oversimplification.
A great project leader is many things (talented, skilled, etc.). But, more fundamentally, they are also human. As a result, their decisions, forecasts and plans are subject to a range of biases and errors.
To what extent is your project ‘business as usual’ or ‘business unusual’? The answer to this question is more important than you might think. It has […]
There is a surprising measure of just how strategic your project may be – it is the extent to which a project is ‘business as usual’ or ‘business unusual’.
The Business Unusual Test is a measure not just of how strategic a project or initiative is, but how complex and ambitious it is too. It also provides an insight to the requirements of success.