Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:45
From bomb site to big business – how Matthew Busby turned around Old Trafford
In 350 BC, Greek philosopher Aristotle identified three core components of persuasion. He wrote: “Now the proofs furnished by the speech are of three kinds.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 08:00
Creativity is the project manager’s greatest asset, but withers without exercise
These days, there is hardly a mission statement that does not herald creativity, or a chief executive officer who does not laud it. In a recent IBM poll, the overall viewpoint of 1 500 CEOs was that creativity is the number-one leadership competency of the future.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:58
Operational readiness is the key success factor for project management
In many studies and reports, project successes tend to be measured against the prescribed schedule, cost and performance. In reality, project success measurement should be against projects constraints and the operational readiness status of the business environment. The combination of the two will assist in efficiently using the product or service as intended.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:41
Project management training at South African universities - are we missing the plot?
In March 2004, the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) commissioned a study that focused on the “rethinking” of project management. The objective of the EPSRC study, commonly known as the EPSRC Network, was firstly to create a multidisciplinary network of academics, researchers and practitioners interested in developing project management and the practice thereof in industry; and secondly, to define and identify a new interdisciplinary research agenda that would allow the field of project management to develop beyond the conceptual foundations that existed at the time – a conceptual base that attracted criticism for its lack of relevance to practice. The core philosophy behind the Network was to link theory and practice through an organised process of interaction between academics and practitioners.
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