Your path to business agility
The shockwaves from the June 2016 Brexit vote for the UK to leave the European Union, where it had been part of its single market since the early 1970s, continue to be felt. Not least politically, where the ruling Conservative party is riven by discord between its pro-business wing and its pro-sovereignty elements. This, along...
The excitement and enthusiasm around AI — everything from self-driving cars, to refrigerators that send push notifications when milk is running low — is also triggering worry among some project managers that the glory days of the profession are behind them, and the future is bleak; or make that non-existent. While this concern is understandable...
When it comes to choosing new project management software, enterprises typically rely on scorecards, content (e.g. reports, white papers, articles, blog posts, videos, etc.), case studies, peer reviews, comparison matrices, demos, data sheets, and other tools to evaluate potential solutions. Naturally, all of these are key pieces of the decision-making puzzle. However, there is a...
It’s not always easy to have the same ethics at work that you have in your private life. For a start, in your private life, in general at least, you are accountable for and represent yourself, in the workplace however you may be expected to represent a whole corporation, which could run to thousands of...
The effects of Brexit on the UK economy have yet to be fully felt, with factory output growing at its fastest rate for decades and unemployment at similarly record low levels. This seems to be belying the doom and gloom predictions from before the seminal vote on Britain’s membership of the EU free trade area....
The best sports managers in history have all been those who had an intuitive grasp of the resources they had available to them. They had a deep understanding of what each team member could do and who could make a difference at crucial moments. This resource management can also be the difference between achieving consistent...
No matter if you are a project manager just starting out or if you are a seasoned PPM veteran, each project or program that you manage is a reflection on yourself, and the results you deliver in your projects can have a significant effect on the future direction of your career. Success of a project is...
Many people from time to time may look at their career and the decisions they have made and feel slight pangs of regret. In the UK however, it has reached epidemic proportions, with the numbers of people saying they regret decisions they have made in their careers eclipsed only by the amount that wish they...
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Hodges-Mace was founded in 2004 and is a major provider of employee benefits communication, management and enrollment products and services. It delivers custom solutions to over 1,000 clients and is focused mainly on large employers based in the U.S. We talked with them recently to find out about how Planview AdaptiveWork...
Despite the constant coverage, verging on national obsession, in the UK of the ongoing Brexit talks and processes, recent research has shown that 64% of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Britain have not yet prepared a plan for the UK’s exit from the European Union. With the large-scale changes in regulatory requirements and the...
