Author: Ben Richardson

In our first article, Why Innovation is so important to organizations and why its not being driven properly, we highlighted why innovation is so important and how companies are generally failing in their attempts. We showed that innovation was not being championed properly, that leaders were not informing employees as to how things will change…

In our previous article, we explained why innovation is so important and why organizations, in general, are doing a fairly miserable job at it. We stated that the project office could be the perfect team to carry the C-suite’s dreams and goals to reality. In this article, we will explore this question: If there is…

In this the first part of a series of articles, I show firstly why innovation is so important to organisations and how companies are generally failing in their attempts. The following articles then go on to show how the project office as a unique entity is perfectly positioned to implement innovation with specific examples on…

When we started this series almost a year ago, How PMO’s Can Catch the Wave of Digital Disruption, our focus was on how the PMO and project managers could leverage technology to optimize their projects. We highlighted in that article the need for the PMO and the PM to embrace technology to surf the wave…

In our series of articles, How PMO’s Can Catch the Wave of Digital Disruption, we focused on how technology associated with digital disruption is changing the project lifecycle. You can view our previous articles to pick up ways how you or your PMO can utilize technology to optimize your project lifecycle: Fast Tracking the Initiation…

In our opening article to this series, How PMO’s Can Catch the Wave of Digital Disruption; we looked at how technology is allowing PMO’s and project managers to optimize the project lifecycle. We then went into specific examples around the initiation phase in Fast Tracking the Initiation Phase using Disruptive Technologies, as well as optimizing…

In our previous articles, we looked at How PMO’s Can Catch the Wave of Digital Disruption and examples of Fast Tracking the Initiation Phase using Disruptive Technologies. Continuing the theme of digital disruption, we now look at how it can be used to dissolve planning dilemmas. The famous quote, “The more things change, the more…

In our previous article, How PMO’s Can Catch the Wave of Digital Disruption, we looked at how project managers and their PMO’s are embracing digital disruption. The article explained how digital disruption was causing all C-suite executives to sit up and take notice and that if we, as project managers, embraced those very technologies, we…

The wave of digital disruption has arrived with a vengeance and, it has left all C-suite executives floundering in its backwash. In the last three years, I have been privileged to first-hand experience of the wave. I am currently involved in a project where the most ardent supporter of change of structure and employees’ profiles…

The Digital Age may have helped to erase national boundaries but arguably it has brought cultural boundaries into even sharper relief, as people can now interact so much more directly and easily. For project managers this brings additional challenges. The traditional linear project management model of conception, definition and planning, initiation, performance and control and…