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8 maxims to achieve successful organisational change
In an earlier blog Why do organisations keep fumbling change? we set out the root causes that lead organisations to fumble change. We’ve developed four right-brain practices that remind us to be human when managing organisational change. Think differently To… – Read more
Personal weekly planning and reporting
One idea we have found that that is easy to implement and transforms the productivity of any team is to use personal weekly planning/reporting. The idea is that each team-member completes a personal weekly plan (using a template) at the… – Read more
Why do organisations keep fumbling change?
Why is it that despite their best efforts hard working, well intentioned, and highly-skilled people fumble organisational change and allow success to slip through their fingers? You can find many lists itemising reasons why projects fail. But they don’t get… – Read more
Onemind Review v1.2
We are delighted to announce the release of the third version of the Onemind Review management maturity survey. We have: Moved it to a new technical platform, providing secure, robust and scalable infrastructure; Provided automated support for the full survey… – Read more
Most change initiatives fail
Most of the research measuring project success and failure is from North America. While figures vary, ‘by most estimates, 50 to 70 per cent of all corporate change initiatives launched in the 1980s and 1990s failed to achieve their objectives’…. – Read more
Project or portfolio management
Although project, programme and portfolio management are all now relatively well defined fields of activity, interestingly they are not all at the same level of maturity within our organisations. Project management is about “doing things right” and portfolio management is… – Read more
Saying no to worthwhile projects
The main task of portfolio management Sometimes portfolio managers are reluctant to stop failing projects because they see that they are still worthwhile. They could begin to feel more confident if they were to remember that one of the main… – Read more