Some time ago, delivering a Project management training in France, I had a discussion with a participant on the words ‘in a structured manner’ being part of the definition of
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Yesterday I did it to myself again, I had to be creative. So start thinking really hard, after all, google and you will find lots of creative-thinking lemmas? No way,
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You know how the Americans believe strokes – compliments – to be most effective in raising motivation? Too American for your taste? Well, maybe you should reconsider. Strokes or compliments
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In his introduction to the paperback edition of Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (2002) writer Jim Collins states: ‘What is the true price of a book? Not
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Fact is a project has either a result or even an implemented result that already generates impact. But where do projects start? In our practice my colleagues and I rarely
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General objective: – To develop participants’ auditing skills – To allow them to target systemic causes for non-compliance; – To induce an increased level of spontaneous compliance with internal control
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General objective: To be able to organize your own job effectively and efficiently, to learn from experience and consequently continuously pinpoint possibilities for improvement. Duration: 2 days, 09:00 – 17:00
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At the end of the three-year period, almost 50% of the projects in the Association’s multi-annual plan were either not started or not finished on time. Prioritization, taking the available
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A renovation project of some infrastructure had gone quite wrong. Many stakeholders were involved, all were blaming the builders, it looked like nobody from the agency or their other contractors
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The project managers in the international organization had trouble meeting deadlines and keeping within budget on their long term, capital-intensive projects. Project coordination took a lot of effort, responsibilities in