Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 19)

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Churchill: The Agile PM (Part 19)

Mark Kozak-Holland

September 17, 2007





Most people are very familiar with Winston Churchill but may not be familiar with his “agile” approach to project management and his skills as a PM in the summer of 1940. With an invasion imminent, Part 18 looked at how Lord Beaverbrook focused on the problems of fighter production and took an unorthodox approach that brought in ideas and best practices from other industries. This article looks at the second area of the overall project--the mechanization and automation of the production of intelligence.
 
“Knowledge is power” was a quote made in 1597 by Sir Francis Bacon, an English philosopher. In the military, knowledge has always been critical and “intelligence” has emerged as the most vital military asset. Churchill had to use the limited resources he had at his disposal in the most effective way. He could only do that through the greater use of organizational and enemy intelligence.



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