"Scope and Plan a Project in a Day" methodology,is a very simple but effective process built around Light Project Management and Agile Techniques. If you want to shorten a project there is one place where – more than any other – the greatest potential for...
Who is Elon Musk Elon Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla - and in space, via rocket producer SpaceX. He owns 21% of Tesla but has pledged more than half his stake as collateral for loans; Forbes...
The PwC report is really insightful, precise and largely correct in its summation and findings. It clearly outlines failings across the process. Those identified in respect of the procurement process are unsurprising to me – they stem from what I might term a nationally ‘weak...
The Great Disruptor - the year that 2020 is! While 2020 was the most volatile year in this 21st century by all aspects, it would be a mistake to think that it's going to be buttery smooth this year. In fact, the rate of disruption will...
The basis for choosing this topic is to investigate the success and failure factors in relation to delivering major projects and to identify a framework of critical success factors that will enhance major project success.Major projects are defined as large and complex projects within the...
The football world was shocked to hear the announcement, on Sunday 19th April 2021 at noon, of the creation of the European Super League. Just a few hours later, an unprecedented rage of criticism from #fans , #players, #clubs, UEFA, FIFA, and #politicians appeared on the front page of most...
The Standish Group Sample Research Paper Unfinished Voyages Cobb's Paradox: "We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure -- so why do they still fail?" Martin Cobb Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Ottawa, Canada Introduction Off the coast of the eastern seaboard in 1906 there were 177 shipwrecks....
Alan Mulally took an old failing company and restored it to its former glory. The company with a scarred brand and aged business model was losing 16 billion dollars a year. That’s 50 million a day, 365 days a year! The company was no other than Ford Motor Company....
Earlier this year, the Harvard Business Review published an article called The 4 Types of Project Manager. The article described how different types of growth opportunities require different types of project managers to run them. It’s a good article. It’s been my experience that there are indeed four types...
Being a successful leader is what many managers aspire to be. They also develop good habits to reach their goals. They know to be successful those habits take time to form and it is a commitment. We know some great leaders have good leadership skills such as being...