Fascinating project, Bob! We sometimes think that a lack of planning and
organizational abilities holds entrepreneurs back -- too much flexibility
and creativity produces anarchy, not innovation. I'll be very interested
in what you discover at the other end of the creativity-organization
spectrum. In what ways does PM help entrepreneurs, and when does its
highly organized approach to new products and ventures start to interfere
with the necessarily emergent creativity required to turn a good idea into
an effective and successful business model? My guess is that there's a
trade-off zone on this end of the spectrum too.
Tom Bryant.
>Bob DeFillippi wrote:
>
>> This summer I will be teaching a four Saturday workshop with executive
>> MBAs at my university to explore how entrepreneurs can employ
>> project-based principles to develop a flow of projects that create an
>> enterprise. I am calling this particular experiment "project-based
>> entrepreneurship" and it is based on my experiences in helping
>> entrepreneurs break down their myriad entrepreneurial tasks into a set
>> of focused projects, each with a set of synergistic and complementary
>> deliverables, deadlines and dedicated resources.
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Prof. Thomas A. Bryant, Ph.D., Visiting professor and
State of New Jersey Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Management, MEC 326
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tel: (973) 353-1062; e-mail:
tabryant@andromeda.rutgers.edu