Mobilising a complex project – getting a multi-disciplinary project off to the best possible start. The Client – A global world-class infrastructure and services business with a turnover of c£10 billion. The bid director asked us to help him mobilise a £16m regional…
Team Based Project Management – giving professionals the technical and adaptive skills they need to succeed with global projects The Client – A global force in household, health and personal care branded consumer and household goods. The company has sales…
Fast, Flexible Innovation – redesigning the New Product Development Process for a Global Drinks Vending Machine company. The Challenge – The aim of this assignment was to develop a vision and a strategy to turn the R&D and Quality areas…
September has a new term feel to it, even for those of us whose children have long since flown the nest. It is a time of change, as summer gives way to autumn and we all begin to re-focus on what needs to be…
Coco Chanel is credited with the creation of one of the great designs of the twentieth century, the ‘Little Black Dress.’ The lessons from this timeless creation for people embarking on the art of crafting a strategy are profound. Taking…
Summer is traditionally a quiet time in business here in the Northern hemisphere. Most people are planning to take a break and the usual daily routines are disrupted as people prepare to take leave, then go on holiday, then come back…
The most common project management pitfalls are ‘adaptive’ in nature, that is they are to do with how people interact with each other during the life of the project. Rarely are they to do with the ‘technical’ aspects of the project and…
We behave as if money is the scarce resource and live our lives and run our businesses carefully controlling expenditure, planning cash flows and developing ideas and taking decisions to make more money, often forgetting that it is time that…
First Impressions Have you ever met someone for the first time and you instantly think to yourself ‘we are going to get on really well, I like her/him? Have you had the opposite visceral reaction, when you think to yourself…
I sometimes use a simple exercise as an icebreaker with any new group or team I work with. It is a simple maths challenge, adding up 8 numbers that appear in a vertical column on the screen in a slow…