Empathy - the secret ingredient to successful change engagement webinar News
Successful stakeholder engagement rests heavily on the extent to which you can engage, understand, and connect with your stakeholders.
The Ebola outbreak: project professionals responding to the threat Blog
I was recently asked by two different clients if our organisation had the physical presence and technical capability to support the delivery of several urgent medical research centre construction projects in central Africa.
First steps into chaos, how to rescue a project that’s falling Blog
Most project managers want to be in control.
Artificial Intelligence: How Hong Kong uses 2,700 years of project data to shape today’s projects Blog
The Hong Kong Development Bureau’s Project Strategy and Governance Office wanted to use their extensive project cashflow records to create useful insights for delivering projects.
The humans behind risk management: your worst nightmare is actually your best friend Blog
The introduction to any blog is fraught with risks, which is rather apt! Will you stay, or will you go? Context of what we’re going to be exploring matters, so I’ll set the scene: It’s that time of the month again, the project is chugging along, stakeholders are calm and the plan is full of ticked boxes, but here comes a dark shadow, ready to take over and push the project into darkness; ‘risk’ is reluctantly added to the agenda.
With sustainability, change can happen with one individual Blog
Kristina Bull is a Partner at QSA Partners, a B Corp consultancy with a mission to help organisations implement circular economy business models.
Understanding the psychology of successful change management Blog
Enabling teams to thrive and create meaningful change through projects is no easy task.
The Ebola outbreak: project professionals responding to the threat
I was recently asked by two different clients if our organisation had the physical presence and technical capability to support the delivery of several urgent medical research centre construction projects in central Africa.
First steps into chaos, how to rescue a project that’s falling
Most project managers want to be in control.
Artificial Intelligence: How Hong Kong uses 2,700 years of project data to shape today’s projects
The Hong Kong Development Bureau’s Project Strategy and Governance Office wanted to use their extensive project cashflow records to create useful insights for delivering projects.
The humans behind risk management: your worst nightmare is actually your best friend
The introduction to any blog is fraught with risks, which is rather apt! Will you stay, or will you go? Context of what we’re going to be exploring matters, so I’ll set the scene: It’s that time of the month again, the project is chugging along, stakeholders are calm and the plan is full of ticked boxes, but here comes a dark shadow, ready to take over and push the project into darkness; ‘risk’ is reluctantly added to the agenda.
With sustainability, change can happen with one individual
Kristina Bull is a Partner at QSA Partners, a B Corp consultancy with a mission to help organisations implement circular economy business models.
Understanding the psychology of successful change management
Enabling teams to thrive and create meaningful change through projects is no easy task.
People not process: delivering successful change by stealth with ‘ninja’ moves
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because your job is to deliver change.
Overcoming the barriers to successful project delivery
In 1995, Martin Cobb, the CIO of the Secretariat of the Treasury Board of Canada, said: “We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?”
Why project professionals need to up the ante when taking risks
There seems to be a common view that project management is very simple – you know where you want to get to, you think you know the intermediate steps, then it’s just a matter of lining up the sequence, drawing up the Gantt chart, nailing the critical path and master budget – and charging ahead! If it really was that simple, there would be no need for APM.
New Year's resolutions gone off track? Here’s your project recovery plan
Did you start the year with resolutions that have been forgotten about? We begin with the best intentions but alas, it’s April and I’ve barely walked outside let alone run.
Empathy - the secret ingredient to successful change engagement webinar
Successful stakeholder engagement rests heavily on the extent to which you can engage, understand, and connect with your stakeholders.
Delivering change in waterfall and agile
This panel discussion on Tuesday 19 October 2021 was one in a series of collaborative sessions between the APM Enabling Change SIG, the APM People SIG and the Change Management Institute exploring how we practitioners work more closely together to realise project outcomes and benefits.
Agile Delivery – the devil is NOT in the detail! webinar
Organisations that have embarked on their Agile journey, at all levels of maturity, often focus their efforts in the wrong places.
NEC3 to NEC4 webinar
A summary of the key changes from NEC3 to NEC4 as issued in 2017.
Basic contract law for project managers part 3 webinar
Basic contract law for project managers webinar seriesPart 3: What to do when things go wrong or the unexpected happens?Most projects involve contracts with external providers or suppliers of good and services.
Swimming With the Big Fish - Integrating SMEs into complex supply chain networks and building their capabilities webinar
Building on his past research in financial services and construction sectors, Dr Kalra presents a framework of how large organisations can integrate small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their supply chains and collaborate with them.