Now having had the chance to reflect on this year’s APM conference, the event pitch seems more than an apt trailblazer! Listening, and contributing, to the wide range of conversations on the value (and necessity) of change, and how to make this happen, left me feeling inspired by what’s possible but also reassured that everyone is grappling with the challenges in getting change right.
The opening of the temporary Serpentine Pavilion every summer in London’s Kensington Gardens is a much-anticipated event in the capital’s art scene.
When you hear the words ‘project planning’, what do you think about? In my experience, most people immediately think of the age-old Gantt chart.
Managers love to throw around terms like “customer-centric” and “digital transformation.
It’s striking how much can change in the course of a successful project.
As the popularity of APM’s chartered standard shows, project management is slowly starting to be held in the same regard as professions such as engineering, accounting and insurance.
In a well-known Indian parable, a group of blind men examine an elephant from different perspectives, each only perceiving a fragment of the animal.
She Builds UK is the brainchild of Neil Perry, a commercial photographer specialising in architecture and the built environment.
This was the big question that APM’s Change Changes conference sought to tackle, with Prof Adam Boddison, CEO of APM; Lysan Drabon, Europe Regional Managing Director of PMI; and Alistair Godbold, Director of The Nichols Group, contributing to the panel session.
Can a maker of ice cream or washing powder really learn much about innovation, project management and process improvement from Formula 1? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is a resounding ‘yes’, according to Jerome Evans, Programme Director at PurpleSector.