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This document discusses career choices and advice from Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton of Gold Heron Ltd. It provides examples of the types of clients and industries they have worked with in project management. The document then discusses a situation where a project manager was brought in to help investigate fraud cases that were taking an average of 7 years to complete. The project manager identified fundamental flaws and an alternative solution that enabled the fraud cases to be completed in an average of 2 years. The document concludes by discussing Gold Heron Ltd's latest courageous career choice to create a mastery program in extraordinary project management.
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- 1. EPM Extraordinary Project Management for IWD Courageous career choices © Gold Heron Ltd 2019 Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton
- 2. EPM How do we know?.....we’re project people and here are some of our clients 2 Printing Publishing Telecomms Airlines Financial sector Manufacturing AgChem / Pharma Public Sector © Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 3. EPM My expectation of a career path 3 Start © Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 4. EPM My actual career path 4© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 5. EPM Brick walls or opportunities? 5© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 6. EPM Advice about qualifications …. 6 ➢ Do an accounting qualification – it opens doors © Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 7. EPM Advice about making decisions….. ➢ Don’t dither ➢ If you really don’t care about the outcome time will decide for you 7© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 8. EPM Advice about career choices ….. ➢ Things always turn out for the best because you will never know what would have happened if you took another path 8© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 9. EPM Advice about your actions….. ➢ You can’t control where the ripples will land you can only control your intention when you throw the stone into the water 9© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 10. EPM We can all make intentional choices.... 10 ➢ Know your needs and balance them ➢ If you fall off, you can get back up again – with a support team © Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 11. EPM Be true to yourself ➢ Know yourself and your values ➢ Be clear about your boundaries ➢ Be courageous wisely 11© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 12. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud 12© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 13. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents 13© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 14. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years 14© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 15. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system 15© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 16. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system ➢ 5 years later....... 16© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 17. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system ➢ 5 years later....... ➢ Bring in a PM 17© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 18. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system ➢ 5 years later....... ➢ Bring in a PM ➢ Fundamental flaw!!! 18© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 19. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system ➢ 5 years later....... ➢ Bring in a PM ➢ Fundamental flaw!!! ➢ Elephant in the room 19© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 20. EPM Situation ➢ Investigation of fraud ➢ Massive volume of documents ➢ Each case averaged 7 years ➢ AHA!! IT system ➢ 5 years later....... ➢ Bring in a PM ➢ Fundamental flaw!!! ➢ Elephant in the room ➢ Carry on or STOP ?? 20© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 21. EPM Outcome ➢ Director accepted analysis ➢ Alternative solution identified ➢ Ran procurement ➢ New system enabled new structure ➢ Empowered teams ➢ Case duration reduced to 2 years 21© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 22. EPM And that lead to the UK Passport...... ➢ Design, Manufacture and Personalisation Service ➢ 3 factories operating to contracted levels of 10m passports per annum 22 ➢ service transition ‘without missing the beat of a heart’ ➢ £4m building refurbishment ➢ £40m new equipment ➢ delivery team of 120+ people ➢ 2 year project but with only 15 months to deliver ➢ huge penalties for missing start date © Gold Heron Ltd 2019
- 23. EPM Our latest courageous career choice 23 Extraordinary Project Management A mastery programme for people who work on extraordinary projects © Gold Heron Ltd 2019