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Project Manager Recruitment

blucone — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:57:52 +0000

Before you start the project manager recruitment process… Many people make the mistake of jumping into the project manager recruitment process as soon as the vacancy for a Project Manager arises. My advice is to take this as an opportunity to assess the role and its importance to the organisation before you finalise the job description. [...]

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Develop your Project Managers into Change Leaders

blucone — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:30:08 +0000

Organisations are using projects to deliver their business goals but failing to invest in the project management and change leadership skills required to ensure success Project Management needs to be a core competency if you are to deliver projects and escape the current malaise of project failure which remains rooted at 75% of projects failing [...]

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Project Management Taxes

Chris Murray — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:02:59 +0000

Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) said “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” It was in the context of taxes that I was reading the FT supplement on Indirect Tax which has become popular as Governments seek to raise additional revenue to combat shrinking economies and the inability to raise [...]

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Why some PPM projects fail

Tony Harding — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:55 +0000

“Portfolio management is a discipline whose time has come” says Nigel Smith; Chief Executive of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is his foreword to the OGC’s recent book ‘An Executive Guide to Portfolio Management’ This view is supported by recent reports from leading research companies Forrester & Gartner which clearly shows a rapidly growing [...]

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Mind the Gap!

Chris Murray — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:05:14 +0000

Reading the newspaper this week I was struck by the Collations desire to use the now retiring Baby boomers wealth (accumulated assets) to pay for their medical care. This made me realise there is a wealth of knowledge embedded in the baby boomers which is also retiring. Many of these people have held senior posts [...]

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Eat That Project!

Tony Harding — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:50:09 +0000

Whenever I am asked to analyse projects I differentiate the likely winners from the losers using my ‘SCALED’ approach: Start right, Clarity, Alignment, Leadership, Executive engagement and Discipline

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Strategy and Programme management in Action

Chris Murray — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:41:16 +0000

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking to an organisation that is going though a transformation in their business model. To best describe the transformation we need to return to the Discipline of Market Leaders, which defines for any industry sector there will be three types of business operational in the market; those focused upon [...]

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Welcome to our new blog.

blucone — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:10:56 +0000

Thanks for visiting our brand new blog. This blog is for senior executives, such as CEO’s, CIO’s, CFO’s or IS / IT executives, who are in any way concerned with the delivery of successful projects, programmes and portfolio’s within their organisation. Call back soon for more posts. Share and Enjoy:

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