Organisation Change’s Magic Ingredient: Trust
Organisation trust is the key to success in major transformational change. Without high levels of trust within the organisation change management efforts are likely to fail. This three part series …
Program Managers are from Mars & Change Managers are from Venus
It seems that while we all understand the importance of effective change management we often struggle with the practicalities of integrating programme management and change management. Some days it feels …
Integrating Project & Change Management: Survey
Both project management and organisational change management are well established disciplines, with distinct bodies of knowledge and approaches. Historically practitioners of each discipline had limited experience in the other. But …
Project Management Excellence for SMEs
Low Cost Strategies to Improve Project Management discussed the importance of adopting a simple, tailorable, project management (PM) methodology and inexpensive, possibly cloud based, PM tools. Since then many people …
Why learning is vital for successful strategy execution
I attended a seminar on Brain Based Learning recently. We learnt about the latest thinking on how our brains work, how we learn and why we learn. One of the …
Low Cost Strategies to Improve Project Management
Last week I talked to a small business owner about his organisations’ challenges in delivering to clients on time and budget. Time and again his people would work heroically to …
5 Tips to Get Your 2011 Strategy Back on track
It’s almost the end of February traditionally a time when we look back on our goals for the year and realise we haven’t made as much progress as we’d planned. …
The Seven Deadly Sins of Strategy Execution
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb. To prosper in these challenging and turbulent times leaders need more than a great vision. They …
Ensuring Projects Deliver Business Value
I recently spoke on this topic at the Australian Institute of Project Managers Conference in Queensland in a presentation that highlighted the importance of OCM to projects’ success and the …
Why CIOs need a strategy for executing the IT Strategic Plan
You’ve worked hard to collaborate with the Business and develop an IT Strategy that is aligned with the business goals and will deliver innovation and growth. IT’s goals are aligned …