Mission Critical: Getting Results by Attacking Conventional Thinking

Produced

• 2001

Key Features

Video: 18 minutes

Is there an urgent need for change in your organization? Is a crucial project in progress? Mission Critical presents valuable insights that show how to challenge existing methods of operation in order to effect a major change.

NASA's Mission Control Center was in trouble. Thirty year old technology was beginning to choke on an ever increasing workload. Missions in the works called for capabilities it didn't have. To get ahead of hte curve, NASA needed a new control center. But it was a time of slashed budgets and low public confidence. A new center would cost too much and take too long. The people who once took us to the moon were beginning to question whether Mission Control could survive at all. In this environment of crisis, NASA made a bold discovery:

To get different results, you need a different approach.

This is the story of how NASA built a new Mission Control Center faster, better, and cheaper by attacking NASA's conventional thinking and its usual approaches to project management. The video demonstrates that sometimes even the most proven ideas need to be reexamined to make a critical project succeed. It's a story not just for rocket scientists, but anyone trying to make a change happen or to achieve results different from those obtained in the past.

Typical Users:
Project Leaders
Technical Managers
Organizations dealing with change
Any department, group, or team challenged to do more with less
Anyone who wants to break through the bureaucracy
Quality Managers

REMEMBER:
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten!"