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10 reasons why project management is important to organisations. (2021)

29 September 2021
Categories: General

What is project management? Project Management can be defined as the discipline and process of managing the end-to-end activities within a project life cycle from the planning, monitoring and control of all aspects of the project to budgeting, resource management and the motivation of all those involved; to achieve the project objectives on time and to the specified cost, quality, and performance. A basic project management lifecycle covers four stages: Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure. The importance of project management. When done correctly, project management is integral for any organisation as it helps all facets of the business run…

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Why every manager should have project management skills.

16 March 2021
Categories: General, Marketing

Project management is defined as the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. By this definition any task that involves a team, has goals and a deadline can be considered a project. Managers are faced with numerous tasks that resemble projects, whether it be a stock take, determining an annual budget, planning a sales campaign, preparing for an audit or planning a staff function. The truth is that anything that does not form part of your day-to-day business is in essence a project, and as soon as…

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How to ‘wing it’ as an ‘accidental’ project manager

17 May 2019
Categories: General

You get into the elevator and your boss says, “Can you just run this project?”. You say yes, of course, but now what? Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could snap our fingers and Voila! things – just – happen? In the real world, it doesn’t work that way. Organisations must use projects to drive change, step-by-carefully-planned-and-implemented-step.   What is project management? Projects are how organisations make things happen. They process and deliver the changes that improve services to customers and increase organisational and operational effectiveness. More formally defined, project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and…

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Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity: Why project management is essential in a VUCA world

2 April 2019
Categories: General

Some fifteen years ago I received an amazing gift. On the first of May of that year, I started as a regional manager with a company involved in a merger. I received three things: my new laptop already set up to start working, a printer in a box, and a file. In the folder were details of a three-day project management course I had to attend, with the details of another few days to do a course on the MS Project programme. Those courses changed the way I approached projects and events. We were taught how to do everything –…

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