Todd C. Williams
Failure is the fate for as many as 70% of all projects. Failed projects result in missing goals and failed strategy. The cost is measured in trillions of dollars per year. Todd Williams has rescued millions of dollars for his clients by ensuring projects meet strategic goals, turning around failed projects, implementing better project technique, or all three. Whether you need insightful keynotes, inspirational presentations, targeted training, or intimate mentoring, he has provided it for everyone from the C-Suite to the depths of project delivery.
Todd Williams' passion is improving how companies implement their strategic plans--from definition to ensuring the proper people are in place. His experience in business and technology uniquely qualify him to help define and implement the best operational structures based on the company's goals. Utilizing nearly thirty years of experience he helps start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations achieve their goals.
He is an author (Rescue the Problem Project, AMACOM), an expert witness, a consultant, a keynoter, and trainer. He is also a writer for The CEO Magazine, American Management Association, his own Back From Red blog, and contributes to numerous other publications, including Fortune/CNN Money, CIO Update, ZDNet, Enterprising CIO, and IT Business Edge and can provide pre- and post-event articles and video for his clients newsletters and promotional material.
He is a professional member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), National Speakers Association, Project Management Institute, and the Society for Information Management (SIM).
Failure is the fate for as many as 70% of all projects. Failed projects result in missing goals and failed strategy. The cost is measured in trillions of dollars per year. Todd Williams has rescued millions of dollars for his clients by ensuring projects meet strategic goals, turning around failed projects, implementing better project technique, or all three. Whether you need insightful keynotes, inspirational presentations, targeted training, or intimate mentoring, he has provided it for everyone from the C-Suite to the depths of project delivery.
Todd Williams' passion is improving how companies implement their strategic plans--from definition to ensuring the proper people are in place. His experience in business and technology uniquely qualify him to help define and implement the best operational structures based on the company's goals. Utilizing nearly thirty years of experience he helps start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations achieve their goals.
He is an author (Rescue the Problem Project, AMACOM), an expert witness, a consultant, a keynoter, and trainer. He is also a writer for The CEO Magazine, American Management Association, his own Back From Red blog, and contributes to numerous other publications, including Fortune/CNN Money, CIO Update, ZDNet, Enterprising CIO, and IT Business Edge and can provide pre- and post-event articles and video for his clients newsletters and promotional material.
He is a professional member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), National Speakers Association, Project Management Institute, and the Society for Information Management (SIM).
Vision to Value
Leaders define vision. A business turns vision into value. CIOs build the capabilities that transform businesses. Ergo, CIOs are enablers for turning vision into profit.
To achieve this, CIOs, like you, must build value-driven organizations that are seasoned yet adaptive, structured yet agile, pragmatic yet innovative. It is not a simple feat. Sticking to four core principles, however, allow you to build and lead a powerful organization that provides value, accelerates business...
Visualizing Change: Project Prototype
Can you visualize your projects-its risks, its goals, its issues, its assumptions, its mitigations, what helps it, and what hinders it? Doing so, would allow you to move, manage, and relate to each of those attributes. Further, it would provide a tool to get your team and stakeholders to help eliminate issues.
Project Prototyping is an education and facilitation technique that materializes these attributes and allows you to move them around the room or even off your...
Stop all IT Projects
IT brings value to the business by supporting breakthrough initiatives that increase operational capabilities or improve efficiencies. The progressive CIO realizes this requires an organizational structure where the IT provides business knowledgeable people capable of working closely with the end user to define the processes and tools necessary to achieve the company's goals. This necessitates a new model which places the business in the lead role in all projects and IT in a supportive...
Five Elements to Connect Better with Your Business Customer
The gap between IT groups and their customers can get pretty wide. The wider that gap the more precarious the situation for IT leaders. Risk increases, projects falter, and reputations evaporate. However, failure in a delivery or addition of a new capability is not a death knell if the customer has been properly informed. Remaining aligned and quickly mitigating issues in IT's delivery are key in maintaining a successful relationship. Savvy IT leaders have an arsenal of tools to keep the...
Finding Gold in Red Projects
The ability to deliver breakthrough initiatives for the business is the differentiator of a truly successful IT department. Project success rates, however, are very poor. Failure rates range from 40-75 percent where projects to deliver those initiatives are over budget, late, or fail to deliver the required functionality.
Failing projects are prevalent in all industries and, although the actual failure rates are very subjective, the incidence of troubled projects is...
