Archive for September, 2011

In today’s economy, every company and organisation is struggling to do more with less, and performance is paramount. This is true for public and private sector entities, as well as for non-profits. Which is why, in order to prevail in lean times, it’s essential to optimise every operation of your organisation, especially the project...
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Only a third of all projects were successfully completed on time and on budget over the past year – the worst failure rate recorded by the Standish Group’s CHAOS report.  Observations of the Project Practitioners There can be many reasons attributed to project failure but one of the reasons that crops up time after time is a direct...
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So all in all we have a lot to be both proud and happy about; so let‘s be proud and happy about it! Being a project manager is a great job, whether you intend on pursuing a project management career or whether you intend to move in to a business role within a project based...
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Mission Impossible Mission: Impossible was an American television series which chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in the first season, during which the leader was Dan Briggs, played by Steven...
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What should the theme tune be for all project managers? I recently ran a survey to find out the answer to this critical question and all of you PMs out there in project management world climbed aboard the bandwagon and voted in your thousands. At the end of stage one of the LinkedIn discussions I had...
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In Part 2 and 3 of this posting we were looking at the first two key strategies for shaping tomorrow’s workforce which are: learning programmes must be more results-orientated and learning methods must be more flexible and content more relevant. Here we will reveal the final key strategy as well as out concluding remarks. KEY STRATEGY 3:...
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In Part 2 of this posting we outlined the first key strategy for shaping tomorrow’s workforce which highlighted that learning programmes must be more results-oriented.  Here we will look at the second key strategy. KEY STRATEGY 2: LEARNING METHODS MUST BE MORE FLEXIBLE AND CONTENT MORE RELEVANT In today’s economy, survey respondents are increasingly focused on...
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Looking at the Numbers—Trends in Learning The Learning Trends survey results confirm the changing requirements of successful performance improvement initiatives, as respondents noted the following priorities for the achievement of positive learning outcomes. • Overall and overwhelmingly, organisations report that innovative learning solutions (70 percent) are needed to accomplish their business objectives. • Regarding professional development solutions,...
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