New Article by Christopher Dennis

Supplier Management In Troubled Project Recovery
When suppliers are entangled in project trouble, a clear goal arises: increase suppliers’ contributions to project recovery.

Three major practices support this goal:

• As part of accurate diagnosis, the project physician must localize the source of troublesome symptoms, ascertaining which suppliers are part of which problems.
• To cultivate a good bedside manner, the project physician has to deepen their understanding of team/supplier relationships.
• As part of triage, a project physician must often uncover the secret or hidden power of a supplier.

To read the full article, see the Troubled Project Special Interest Group Newsletter (PMI), Vol. VII No. 4, August 2009.