This past year has been a learning experience for many around the world. Organisations learned that they can go remote. Employees learned they can wear pajamas to their weekly meetings (thanks Zoom!). And everyone has learned what Hollywood pandemic movies get wrong. There’s no getting chased by zombies, just a slow death by boredom and […]
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When working on global projects English is often viewed and used as the international language of business. There is an implicit assumption that geographically dispersed project teams will all speak, read and write English to an acceptable level. In many ways that assumption is true – but not always. Sometimes regional project team leaders are
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An exciting new project has started involving teams from right across the globe – both within the organisation and from external suppliers. The first priority is to get all the teams working in harmony using the organisations well-established project management framework. So the first task is to prepare the training materials. Even if the world
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We live in strange times. Who would have thought last year that 2020 would be the year of Covid-19, the year of lockdown, the year of working from home (at least for many of us)? So, what will the future bring for businesses? Any strategic planning for this year has probably gone out of the
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Project management is more than a simple planning of phases. It is an extremely dynamic function. Companies hire project managers to provide insight, carry out analyses, and make decisions based on their findings. Incidentally, this is exactly what most AI solutions are designed for. About 81% of project managers that participated in the Pulse of
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IT Projects are perfectly placed to shape the future of business as we emerge from this pandemic
Businesses need to be leaner and more innovative.
It’s time for IT Project teams to say, “Hold our coffee, watch us do our thing” – this is our moment.
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The current state of our environment and its sustainability is very much at the forefront of the news these days. As a responsible global society for our present and, more importantly, for our future, we must do more than publishing “strategies” on sustainability and plans to address industrial activities on the environment or start to
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As anyone who ever made a conscious effort to learn something knows, learning is a difficult process. Throughout history, people have always searched for ways to make learning convenient. And what they found is that learning tools can mean the difference between knowledge and ignorance. A learning management system (LMS) is the latest entry in
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I touched on the subject of the fundamentally different types of communication needed to create a successful project outcome in a post earlier this month. The amount of feedback the post received, many people misunderstanding one of the key ideas and some reflection suggest a focused article is needed. One of the concepts underpinning the
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Knowledge workers lie at the heart of many businesses. They have high degrees of experience, expertise, as well as education. Their jobs mostly involve the application, distribution, and creation of knowledge. But, when someone’s line of work requires them to “think for a living,” they cannot simply apply the same techniques used for managing more
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