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Turner and Townsend Project Management Training Produces Impressive Results

APM, News, Qualifications

Turner and Townsend is one of the most known construction and program management consultancy in the world and in 2012, they embarked on an e-learning project management program. This program enabled Turner and Townsend professionals in project management for achieving international status with APM (Association for Project Management) qualifications. The aim was to increase and […]

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Praxis Framework

Project Management Framework Goes Open Source with the Praxis Framework

Insights, News

The Praxis Framework is a significant new development in the field of project, programme and portfolio (P3) management and launches on the 1st May 2014. Until now practitioners have used bodies of knowledge, methodologies, competency frameworks and capability maturity models from different sources that use different taxonomies and terminologies. This has meant that anyone wishing

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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority Receives GPM Sustainable Project Management Centre of Excellence Award

Insights, News

Dubai,UAE/Fort Wayne, USA  28th April 2014: HE Saeed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been awarded for the authority’s ongoing pursuit of greening its project management framework by implementing international best practice for green business excellence. Joel Carboni, Founder and President of GPM Global handed over the

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GPM Releases First Organizational Standard; The P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management

Insights, News

Introducing the GPM P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management; People, Planet & Profit, Project Processes and Products. Fort Wayne/USA The global focus on sustainable development, climate change, ethics, social responsibility and supply chains has increased in recent years. There is a growing demand for sustainable business practices through their processes and products so that they

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Mike Nichols

Mike Nichols, Respected APM Leader and Projects Industry Executive, passes away in London

Insights, News

Reported by Miles Shepherd in UK 4 December 2013 – London, UK – The Association for Project Management (APM) has announced that Mike Nichols, its Chairman who retired at the November 2013 Annual General Meeting, died on Tuesday 3 December. Perhaps best known for his dedicated work on APM’s case for the award of a Royal Charter, Mike

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Benefits of project management

Study Highlights the Benefits of Project Management Training

Leadership, News

A recent survey released by Parallel Project Management shows that attending a professional project management course provides a multitude of benefits, both for the project manager and the corporation. Statistics show that management training increases overall success rates for project completion. Past attendees of the Parallel Project Management Training Courses took a survey on the

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PMI Acquires Human Systems International, a UK-based Assessment and Benchmarking Firm

Insights, News

HSI and PMI formalize longstanding partnership to deliver unparalleled strategic business insight The Project Management Institute (PMI) has acquired Human Systems International (HSI), a UK-based assessment and benchmarking company with keen organizational insight developed over 20 years of collecting best practice project, program and portfolio management data from commercial and government organizations around the world.

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