In the creative industry (think marketing, advertising, branding, and PR agencies, among others), two key roles often shape the outcome of a project: the account manager and the project manager.

Guiding a tech project from start to finish entails staying on top of seemingly endless details, decisions and data (and sometimes, detours). From making sure progress is achieved on time and on ...

Julia Hawley is a full-time writer focusing on investing. She combines her writing skills with her experience in personal wealth management. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She ...

Account managers and project managers are responsible for a section of the overall business of a company, but their roles are different. The account manager deals with one or more customer accounts on ...

Strategic project managers focus on achieving business results. Operationally managed projects tend focus more on just getting the work completed. By focusing on improving customer satisfaction, ...

A PM by many names is a rose just the same. Maybe that’s what Shakespeare would have said had he been looking at today’s job descriptions. But alphabet characters aside, what actually separates the PM ...

We may not have always called them “project managers,” but since the building of the pyramids, someone had to do the planning, budgeting and delegating responsibilities that laid the groundwork for ...

Jeannette is the CEO of Lurdez Consulting Group. She brings over 20 years of project management success to her work helping companies. Project manager versus project leader: Have you ever heard about ...