Your path to business agility
With global e-commerce trade booming and the world’s first trillion-dollar companies being tech-based, it’s no surprise that a divergence has occurred between the “traditional” project manager and the new kid on the PM block, the digital project manager. Though there is naturally a lot of crossover between the standard project management roles, a digital project...
As a part of the European reaction to Britain’s looming exit from the European Union (EU), Germany has put a bill to parliament which would allow businesses which are registered under British business legislation to convert to German regulation. An Amendment to the Transformation Act The new law which has been advanced by the Federal...
It’s been said that it is not the destination that matters, but the journey. While there is a great deal of poetic truth in this perspective, many enterprises are simply unable to be philosophic about their digital transformation journey. That’s because they can become lost somewhere on the road to transformation and change—without a good...
Silos have been talked about for decades in the business world and recognized as a huge hindrance to organizations, especially those trying to scale up their operations. A silo mentality is where different teams or departments don’t communicate or cooperate, so an organization can end up with the various cogs of its machine trying to...
Though it has been proclaimed that Britain has defied the worst predictions of Brexit naysayers, with employment in the UK at record levels not seen since records began in 1971, the hidden truth may be that the focus should be on job quality rather than quantity. While the newspaper headlines and figures touted by politicians...
The career path of project managers is generally quite similar: a PM starts off with small-scale projects with a correspondingly small team, with success and experience those projects and the team you are in charge of get larger and larger, with similar results being expected on a grander scale. This is known as scaling up...
Another holiday season is here, which means it’s time for holiday movies, holiday movies, and yet more holiday movies. However, while plenty of choice is usually a good thing, sometimes it can be overwhelming. Deciding what to watch can be a challenge. It might even lead to battles with family members to see who commands...
Behind every project success there’s also an excellent team and though your team may only just be “doing its job”, the difference between doing that job well, compared to averagely or poorly can be the difference between stunning success and major failure. When things work out for the former instead of the latter it’s natural...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given a scathing assessment of Britain’s prospects after it leaves the EU. The Brexit vote has dominated British politics ever since it took place in 2016 as the ruling Conservative party seems to lurch from crisis to crisis, with no deal for trade agreed and with the country due...
As a project manager you can often be expected to negotiate, review, execute and terminate contracts. There can be any number of reasons for these contracts, from agreements with vendors to outsourced assistance to the understandings with clients or end users. Though they can be such a large part of the job, contracts and project...
