Benefits Dependency Network Short GuideDavid Waller
A short explanation of the purpose and contents of the Benefits Dependency Network. The BDN is one of the key tools for Portfolio, Programme and Project Teams to realise benefits.
A presentation given by John Chapman to the APM Planning, Monitoring and Control SIG and guests at the University of Warwick, Coventry 2015.
John Chapman, Touchstone – Benefits dependency diagrams should be simple. Use timelines to identify when benefits realisation will occur.
How to Achieve Measurable Benefits Through Project and Organizational ChangePactera_US
Is your organization realizing expected benefits from projects? Is there a process in place to measure results?
Watch this webinar and learn:
- The financial, technical and process benefits of executing projects correctly
- How to measure benefits from changes
- Critical factors to consider before beginning a project
This webinar is a must view for business leaders and project managers responsible for ensuring the success of projects.
For other Informa Webinars: http://www.informa-mea.com/webinars
To view recording: https://youtu.be/2KexP_irteE or watch the video at end of the slide
The webinar covers the major business benefits management principles, practices and techniques that enable organisations to optimise the return from their investments in programmes and projects.
The Objectives Of This Webinar Are To Explain How To:
1. Relate the business case to business benefits
2. Differentiate between business KPIs vs Project KPIs
3. Establish a benefits management chart
4. Plan and prepare for organisational readiness
5. Plan to perform project transition and handover
6. Measure the realisation of business benefits
Business Benefits Realisation is about ensuring that programmes and projects deliver the forecasted benefits identified in a business case or project charter document. Obtaining an acceptable return on investment is critical, but many organisations struggle to demonstrate that their programmes and projects deliver the required business benefits.
Often there is confusion over what benefits are required, who should track them and how and what the effective measures should be. The explicit role of a project manager is to deliver the project to ensure the scope, schedule and budget components are satisfied. However the intrapreneurial and business-minded project manager is the one who is acutely aware of the business aspect of programmes and projects and truly understands the rationale driving their organisation’s investment strategy. This project manager provides true value.
About the Presenter:
Claude Maley is Managing Director of Mit Consultants, a consultancy and education practice servicing international clients in change management, and Chairman of a business solutions company.
Claude is a PMP® and professional speaker, instructor and lecturer in topics ranging from general organisational, programme and project management to sales and marketing, leadership and motivation. Claude is the author of the book ‘Project Management - Concepts Methods
This presentation provided an overview of the tools and techniques now being used to improve the efficiency of the construction sector and deliver more for less.
Benefits Dependency Network Short GuideDavid Waller
A short explanation of the purpose and contents of the Benefits Dependency Network. The BDN is one of the key tools for Portfolio, Programme and Project Teams to realise benefits.
A presentation given by John Chapman to the APM Planning, Monitoring and Control SIG and guests at the University of Warwick, Coventry 2015.
John Chapman, Touchstone – Benefits dependency diagrams should be simple. Use timelines to identify when benefits realisation will occur.
How to Achieve Measurable Benefits Through Project and Organizational ChangePactera_US
Is your organization realizing expected benefits from projects? Is there a process in place to measure results?
Watch this webinar and learn:
- The financial, technical and process benefits of executing projects correctly
- How to measure benefits from changes
- Critical factors to consider before beginning a project
This webinar is a must view for business leaders and project managers responsible for ensuring the success of projects.
For other Informa Webinars: http://www.informa-mea.com/webinars
To view recording: https://youtu.be/2KexP_irteE or watch the video at end of the slide
The webinar covers the major business benefits management principles, practices and techniques that enable organisations to optimise the return from their investments in programmes and projects.
The Objectives Of This Webinar Are To Explain How To:
1. Relate the business case to business benefits
2. Differentiate between business KPIs vs Project KPIs
3. Establish a benefits management chart
4. Plan and prepare for organisational readiness
5. Plan to perform project transition and handover
6. Measure the realisation of business benefits
Business Benefits Realisation is about ensuring that programmes and projects deliver the forecasted benefits identified in a business case or project charter document. Obtaining an acceptable return on investment is critical, but many organisations struggle to demonstrate that their programmes and projects deliver the required business benefits.
Often there is confusion over what benefits are required, who should track them and how and what the effective measures should be. The explicit role of a project manager is to deliver the project to ensure the scope, schedule and budget components are satisfied. However the intrapreneurial and business-minded project manager is the one who is acutely aware of the business aspect of programmes and projects and truly understands the rationale driving their organisation’s investment strategy. This project manager provides true value.
About the Presenter:
Claude Maley is Managing Director of Mit Consultants, a consultancy and education practice servicing international clients in change management, and Chairman of a business solutions company.
Claude is a PMP® and professional speaker, instructor and lecturer in topics ranging from general organisational, programme and project management to sales and marketing, leadership and motivation. Claude is the author of the book ‘Project Management - Concepts Methods
This presentation provided an overview of the tools and techniques now being used to improve the efficiency of the construction sector and deliver more for less.
Benefits Management: the essential ingredient for change, 10 Jan 2017. Southampton
Transformational change is here to stay.
We are living in an era of continuous transformation where standing still is simply not an option in today’s ultra-competitive and constantly changing business environments.
This presentation describes the key drivers and management imperatives for successful transformational change in organisations. It shows how placing Benefits Management at the heart of change management directly addresses and enables success.
In the main there are two key attributes of the Benefits Management methodology that help deliver successful business change.
The first is a flexible framework which can be easily embedded across the entire organisational change structure. This provides powerful change management capabilities that focus on delivering the desired end results and outcomes for the business.
Secondly and arguably most importantly, is the need to focus on the decision makers and data owners within the organisation. They are responsible for driving the change and associated benefits forward. This applies equally to; the senior responsible owner, the business change manager and benefit owners.
Benefits Management done well will naturally draw people into the change process and can achieve game-changing results. It does this by fostering in people; joined-up thinking, good communications, readiness for change and a culture of shared goals and objectives.
Today’s market drivers for constant business change don’t offer the luxury of choice.
If there is new technology or a threat to our current or aspired market objectives, then organisations must rise to the change challenge or accept the inevitable consequences such as reduced market share or business failure.
If directed to cut costs or do more for less, it should be done intelligently. Benefits management is essentially about making sure that the organisation has an unrelenting focus on delivering business value and not just traditional time, cost and quality outputs.
In the real world, it’s about people and winning the hearts and minds of the people, that will deliver true success.
On the theme of benefits management, the presentation impressed the need for measurable improvement but not at all costs. One of the challenges of benefits management is to identify which benefits are the ones to address, and not just because they happen to be measurable!
Several useful frameworks and tools are recommended and referenced in the presentation.
The presenters were Neil White, Chair of APM Benefits Management SIG and Merv Wyeth, Secretary.
See also: http://bit.ly/2iykbXX
These are some of the questions which Mike Reynolds, as Network Rail’s Group Investment Controller, set out to answer, and came up with a management tool to aid robust governance. He will explain some of the challenges and the importance of this work.
Organizations worldwide spend/invest millions of dollars on activities/projects/programs to achieve short to long terms Vision/Goals. However often there is a lack of common understanding desired benefits and organization don’t have a concrete plan to quantify benefits achieved. These results in organization not having a correct view on ROI once the projects are completed. Global competition and ever evolving disruptive technologies has forced organization to have more disciplined approach towards benefits realization for every $ spent. Benefit realization management (BRM) is a discipline that help organization focus on overall benefits achieved and further enhance the value chain through continuous feedback mechanism.
During an APM Benefits SIG committee meeting, a request was made for someone to present on Benefits Management at a lunchtime working session at the Open University (an APM Corporate member) in Milton Keynes. Have previously gained and benefited from an OU degree I immediately volunteered with a view to both ‘giving something back’ and having a genuine interest in what the OU were doing to tackle this subject of which I am a keen proponent.
The popularity and success of this event is in no small part due to the energy and approach of Will Levy. Will, who has only been in post for 12 months, has during this time introduced Benefits and Portfolio management to the OU. The OU is clearly a progressive organisation with a strong desire to succeed and flourish and Will is currently working to ensure that its transformational change initiatives are fully aligned with its strategic plan. It is apparent that developing their Portfolio and Benefits Management capabilities together is enabling both disciplines to gain traction in way that by approaching them independently would have been less effective.
The event gave me an opportunity to present on my firmly held belief that effective Benefits Management is a wonderful enabler for sustainable organisational change. The BM processes themselves becoming much more effective when viewed and implemented through a Change Management Lens. There were two other speakers in the line up; Jim Yates, an OU tutor and lecturer, gave a presentation on the importance of recognising and accommodating the different perspectives of an organisation’s stakeholders. And Sean Sellers, a Business Transformation Manager, presented on the progress of an OU change programme for which he has Benefits Management responsibilities.
This was a good event which was finished off by a networking opportunity, fuelled by a great selection of sandwiches, and some more Benefits and Change conversation. Will suggested that he would be interested in seeking representation from other APM SIGs to help inform and develop his organisations Change Management capability.
Benefits realization management - how to do it right - Wovex and Trevor Howes...Wovex Limited
Benefits realization management is important and hard to do it right.
Understand more about areas of importance and expand your ability to be more successful with benefits realization management.
Wovex is software for Value and Benefit Realization Management at https://www.wovex.com/
P2C2 Group's Quick Tasks for IT Enterprise ManagementJim Kendrick
For more than 12 years, we have been a leader in helping Federal agencies and prime contractors plan, manage, and improve major investments for information technology. Now we bring you QUICK TASKS
Benefit Management; How to fill multi gaps with only one bridge?Imad Alsadeq
It was my pleasure delivering this presentation in an online webinar in cooperation with PMIAGC and Madinah Institute (mile).
Presentation description:
Organizations' activities vary from department to another, this variety requires different management disciplines to work together synchronized and aligned. Missing the link between strategy and projects is a common challenge facing strategy and project stakeholders, while PMO faces another challenge when it tries to transfer project's deliverables or program benefits to be operationalized, a third challenge appears for operation teams when they try to realize and sustain those organizational benefits.
This webinar discussed different phenomena and roots of these challenges, it also presented how to fill different gaps between management lines by utilizing benefit management concepts and practices based on PMI Standard for Program Management.
By what mentioned in this webinar, it is expected that Office of Strategic Management (OSM), Project Management Office (PMO), and Operation Departments will discover how to talk to each others the same language based on benefit management bridge.
Main learning objectives:
1- Understand Benefit Management.
2- Recognize some Management practice gaps.
3- Utilize Benefit Management across the Organization.
Benefit Realisation Management From Breakthrough Consultancy 1 January 2011Martin Moore
Organisations need a clear process to realise benefits in major change initiatives. This approach from Breakthrough Consultancy is both simple and rich through its compliance with accepted best practice.
Buyers have a new obsession. It is called 'benefits realization', or alternatively 'benefits delivery'. They have lost faith that promises made before the sale will actually materialize and are determined to intervene to ensure that they do. But if buyers are focused on benefits realization, then sellers must be too. In this article we will show you how you can use this important concept to boost your sales success.
This was a presentation given by Merv Wyeth of the APM Benefits Management (and APM Programme Management) SIG and Neil White of the APM Enabling Change and Benefits Management SIGs.
The presentation was to the APM South Wales and West of England branch membership in Bristol on Tuesday 17th June 2014.
The purpose of this event was to demonstrate how the symbiotic nature of benefits management and change management ensures that an organisation’s change initiatives are successful, and deliver real, lasting value.
This event aimed to show how the meaningful engagement of stakeholders at the appropriate stage of the change life-cycle greatly improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the change process.
By leveraging both the change and benefits management disciplines the timely transition to improved business operations and realisation of the expected benefits is assured.
The programme lifecycle, and its inter-related phases, was used to provide a framework that enabled delegates to participate in an inter-active discussion, all in order to improve delegates' knowledge and understanding of these two important disciplines.
Third sector forum
Benefits realisation management
The value of benefits management and capacity and capability required to effect delivery
Ibis House - 13th May 2015
The Adaptive PMO: Manage and Maintain Change Management for long term successKeyedIn Projects
Change is an essential way of life for project managers and keeping up with change has proven to be a differentiator for businesses looking to innovate and grow in a complicated environment. While change brings with it new opportunities and growth, it also comes with obstacles and challenges that need to be managed and maintained in order for long term success. In an era of uncertainty and chaos, the role of the Project Management Office is critical to the success and sustainability of business change.
Benefits Management: the essential ingredient for change, 10 Jan 2017. Southampton
Transformational change is here to stay.
We are living in an era of continuous transformation where standing still is simply not an option in today’s ultra-competitive and constantly changing business environments.
This presentation describes the key drivers and management imperatives for successful transformational change in organisations. It shows how placing Benefits Management at the heart of change management directly addresses and enables success.
In the main there are two key attributes of the Benefits Management methodology that help deliver successful business change.
The first is a flexible framework which can be easily embedded across the entire organisational change structure. This provides powerful change management capabilities that focus on delivering the desired end results and outcomes for the business.
Secondly and arguably most importantly, is the need to focus on the decision makers and data owners within the organisation. They are responsible for driving the change and associated benefits forward. This applies equally to; the senior responsible owner, the business change manager and benefit owners.
Benefits Management done well will naturally draw people into the change process and can achieve game-changing results. It does this by fostering in people; joined-up thinking, good communications, readiness for change and a culture of shared goals and objectives.
Today’s market drivers for constant business change don’t offer the luxury of choice.
If there is new technology or a threat to our current or aspired market objectives, then organisations must rise to the change challenge or accept the inevitable consequences such as reduced market share or business failure.
If directed to cut costs or do more for less, it should be done intelligently. Benefits management is essentially about making sure that the organisation has an unrelenting focus on delivering business value and not just traditional time, cost and quality outputs.
In the real world, it’s about people and winning the hearts and minds of the people, that will deliver true success.
On the theme of benefits management, the presentation impressed the need for measurable improvement but not at all costs. One of the challenges of benefits management is to identify which benefits are the ones to address, and not just because they happen to be measurable!
Several useful frameworks and tools are recommended and referenced in the presentation.
The presenters were Neil White, Chair of APM Benefits Management SIG and Merv Wyeth, Secretary.
See also: http://bit.ly/2iykbXX
These are some of the questions which Mike Reynolds, as Network Rail’s Group Investment Controller, set out to answer, and came up with a management tool to aid robust governance. He will explain some of the challenges and the importance of this work.
Organizations worldwide spend/invest millions of dollars on activities/projects/programs to achieve short to long terms Vision/Goals. However often there is a lack of common understanding desired benefits and organization don’t have a concrete plan to quantify benefits achieved. These results in organization not having a correct view on ROI once the projects are completed. Global competition and ever evolving disruptive technologies has forced organization to have more disciplined approach towards benefits realization for every $ spent. Benefit realization management (BRM) is a discipline that help organization focus on overall benefits achieved and further enhance the value chain through continuous feedback mechanism.
During an APM Benefits SIG committee meeting, a request was made for someone to present on Benefits Management at a lunchtime working session at the Open University (an APM Corporate member) in Milton Keynes. Have previously gained and benefited from an OU degree I immediately volunteered with a view to both ‘giving something back’ and having a genuine interest in what the OU were doing to tackle this subject of which I am a keen proponent.
The popularity and success of this event is in no small part due to the energy and approach of Will Levy. Will, who has only been in post for 12 months, has during this time introduced Benefits and Portfolio management to the OU. The OU is clearly a progressive organisation with a strong desire to succeed and flourish and Will is currently working to ensure that its transformational change initiatives are fully aligned with its strategic plan. It is apparent that developing their Portfolio and Benefits Management capabilities together is enabling both disciplines to gain traction in way that by approaching them independently would have been less effective.
The event gave me an opportunity to present on my firmly held belief that effective Benefits Management is a wonderful enabler for sustainable organisational change. The BM processes themselves becoming much more effective when viewed and implemented through a Change Management Lens. There were two other speakers in the line up; Jim Yates, an OU tutor and lecturer, gave a presentation on the importance of recognising and accommodating the different perspectives of an organisation’s stakeholders. And Sean Sellers, a Business Transformation Manager, presented on the progress of an OU change programme for which he has Benefits Management responsibilities.
This was a good event which was finished off by a networking opportunity, fuelled by a great selection of sandwiches, and some more Benefits and Change conversation. Will suggested that he would be interested in seeking representation from other APM SIGs to help inform and develop his organisations Change Management capability.
Benefits realization management - how to do it right - Wovex and Trevor Howes...Wovex Limited
Benefits realization management is important and hard to do it right.
Understand more about areas of importance and expand your ability to be more successful with benefits realization management.
Wovex is software for Value and Benefit Realization Management at https://www.wovex.com/
P2C2 Group's Quick Tasks for IT Enterprise ManagementJim Kendrick
For more than 12 years, we have been a leader in helping Federal agencies and prime contractors plan, manage, and improve major investments for information technology. Now we bring you QUICK TASKS
Benefit Management; How to fill multi gaps with only one bridge?Imad Alsadeq
It was my pleasure delivering this presentation in an online webinar in cooperation with PMIAGC and Madinah Institute (mile).
Presentation description:
Organizations' activities vary from department to another, this variety requires different management disciplines to work together synchronized and aligned. Missing the link between strategy and projects is a common challenge facing strategy and project stakeholders, while PMO faces another challenge when it tries to transfer project's deliverables or program benefits to be operationalized, a third challenge appears for operation teams when they try to realize and sustain those organizational benefits.
This webinar discussed different phenomena and roots of these challenges, it also presented how to fill different gaps between management lines by utilizing benefit management concepts and practices based on PMI Standard for Program Management.
By what mentioned in this webinar, it is expected that Office of Strategic Management (OSM), Project Management Office (PMO), and Operation Departments will discover how to talk to each others the same language based on benefit management bridge.
Main learning objectives:
1- Understand Benefit Management.
2- Recognize some Management practice gaps.
3- Utilize Benefit Management across the Organization.
Benefit Realisation Management From Breakthrough Consultancy 1 January 2011Martin Moore
Organisations need a clear process to realise benefits in major change initiatives. This approach from Breakthrough Consultancy is both simple and rich through its compliance with accepted best practice.
Buyers have a new obsession. It is called 'benefits realization', or alternatively 'benefits delivery'. They have lost faith that promises made before the sale will actually materialize and are determined to intervene to ensure that they do. But if buyers are focused on benefits realization, then sellers must be too. In this article we will show you how you can use this important concept to boost your sales success.
This was a presentation given by Merv Wyeth of the APM Benefits Management (and APM Programme Management) SIG and Neil White of the APM Enabling Change and Benefits Management SIGs.
The presentation was to the APM South Wales and West of England branch membership in Bristol on Tuesday 17th June 2014.
The purpose of this event was to demonstrate how the symbiotic nature of benefits management and change management ensures that an organisation’s change initiatives are successful, and deliver real, lasting value.
This event aimed to show how the meaningful engagement of stakeholders at the appropriate stage of the change life-cycle greatly improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the change process.
By leveraging both the change and benefits management disciplines the timely transition to improved business operations and realisation of the expected benefits is assured.
The programme lifecycle, and its inter-related phases, was used to provide a framework that enabled delegates to participate in an inter-active discussion, all in order to improve delegates' knowledge and understanding of these two important disciplines.
Third sector forum
Benefits realisation management
The value of benefits management and capacity and capability required to effect delivery
Ibis House - 13th May 2015
The Adaptive PMO: Manage and Maintain Change Management for long term successKeyedIn Projects
Change is an essential way of life for project managers and keeping up with change has proven to be a differentiator for businesses looking to innovate and grow in a complicated environment. While change brings with it new opportunities and growth, it also comes with obstacles and challenges that need to be managed and maintained in order for long term success. In an era of uncertainty and chaos, the role of the Project Management Office is critical to the success and sustainability of business change.
Does your Board exhibit good governance of project and change management?
Tuesday 22nd September 2015
Farnborough
APM Thames Valley branch and Governance Specific Interest Group
by Martin Samphire and Miles Dixon
Describes the factors affecting individual competence and motivation and a process to manage organizational change. Presented at 2010 PMI Global Congress - North America in Washington DC.
The Conference
The Energy sector is changing: the challenging economic landscape has forced businesses to scrutinise their operations in pursuit of greater productivity and asset efficiency. Meanwhile, the market is growing increasingly diverse as renewables mature and new entrants emerge.
Against this backdrop, digital is becoming increasingly pervasive as companies turn to technology to modernise processes and deliver competitive advantage; from remote monitoring and automation, to data analytics, Machine Learning, asset visualisation and HPC.
Now in its 6th year, the conference has established itself as the largest annual Digital Energy summit in the country: the event brings together senior IT, Digital and business leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking. The programme will explore the use of Information Technology in driving tangible outcomes across the organisation, looking at key trends and providing practical insight from an array of industry leaders.
Core Themes
Landscape: maximising economic recovery and cross industry collaboration
IT & Digital as a driver of efficiency, business improvement and problem solving
Analytics, data-driven decision making and business intelligence
Asset visibility: performance, conditioning, remote monitoring
Digitising processes and innovating on top of legacy systems
Emerging technologies, AI, IoT, Robotics, Drones, Blockchain
Infrastructure: SCADA, Cloud, hybrid architecture, managed services
Cyber Security, information governance, GDPR
APM webinar hosted by the Scotland Network on 14 May 2024.
Speakers: Chris Drysdale and Peter Huggett
An interactive session discussing how Project Managers can identify mental health symptoms, provide tools to help themselves and others, plus also increase the capabilities of the Project Management function. This webinar was held on 14 May 2024.
The covid-19 pandemic led to concerns about a worsening of mental health & wellbeing across the world and increased awareness in both society and the workplace. This webinar looks to advise the benefits of having a Mental Health First Aid function in the workplace whilst also providing tools and techniques that can be readily used and applied to yourself and colleagues. Additionally, there are wider benefits to Project Management which will be proposed and discussed.
Making communications land - Are they received and understood as intended? webinar
Thursday 2 May 2024
A joint webinar created by the APM Enabling Change and APM People Interest Networks, this is the third of our three part series on Making Communications Land.
presented by
Ian Cribbes, Director, IMC&T Ltd
@cribbesheet
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/making-communications-land-are-they-received-and-understood-as-intended-webinar/
Content description:
How do we ensure that what we have communicated was received and understood as we intended and how do we course correct if it has not.
APM Welcome
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Professor Adam Boddison OBE, Chief Executive Officer, APM
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
APM welcome from CEO
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Projecting for the Future: Harmonising Energy and Environment
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Graham Winch, Professor of Project Management, Alliance Manchester Business School
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
APM launched Projecting the Future in June 2019 to debate the challenges and opportunities for the profession, building on the 2017 Future of Project Management exercise conducted by Arup and University College London. This presentation provides the initial results from this third phase of reflection on the future of our profession.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
New to Nuclear - Transition into nuclear from other sectors
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Elaine Falconer, Head of Profession for Project Management, Jacobs
and
Karen Williams, Project Manager, Jacobs
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
In this session, Jacobs shared insights and learning from its ‘New to Nuclear’ programme designed to support mid-career and lateral entrants whose existing skills and expertise can be utilised in the nuclear sector.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Tell us what to do, not how to do it
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Alan Livingstone, Project Delivery Lead, UK&I Water Sector, Stantec
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
How the Stantec Project Management Framework provides our PMs with the flexibility to deliver projects of varying complexity, across a variety of different sectors, within a Global Organisation.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
The Future is Fractional
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Karen Frith, Founder & Managing Partner, Greenlight Partners
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
Discovering the transformational impact of working with fractional experts. Learning how businesses and professionals are embracing fractional roles and how they’re redefining work structures for optimal agility and efficiency.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Lessons learned across projects
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Barney Harle, Head of Major Projects, Manchester City Council
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
What are my key takeaways from working on a vast array of projects including the recent 30+ low carbon and decarbonisation schemes at Manchester City Council?
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Agile Adaptability: Navigating Project Management in a Dynamic World
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Nathan Lumb, Partners Project Manager, GEIC
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
This presentation delved into the vital role adaptability plays in modern project management.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Inclusive Practices in Project Management: Leveraging Digital Frameworks for Diverse Minds
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Caroline Keep, PhD researcher Digitization in Education Organisation, University of Central Lancaster
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
This talk aimed to provide actionable insights and strategies for embedding inclusivity into the fabric of project management, thereby unlocking the new dimensions of productivity and innovation in the digital sphere.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Leadership - the project professionals secret weapon
Wednesday 24 April 2024
APM East of England Network
Presented by:
Chris MacLeod
Keep up to date with the APM East of England Network:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/east-of-england-network/
Content description:
“I’m a Project Manager”.
That’s often what we tell family, friends and peers when asked what we do. But is it really a fair description? It may well be our role title, but it probably doesn’t convey a lot of what we actually do.
This presentation and discussion is about going beyond the frameworks, processes and stereotypes associated with project management and exploring the leadership roles we all in fact perform.
“I provide leadership focused on delivering projects and change for organisations”
APM Project Management Awards - Hints and tips for a winning award entry webinar
Thursday 18 April 2024
The APM Awards overview and the resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/apm-awards/
Content description:
Ahead of the APM Awards 2024, find out from our expert panel what elements make a winning APM Award entry.
Learn how to choose the category best suited to you or your company.
Answers provided to those all-important questions:
-What importance does the criteria hold?
-What are the judging panel looking for?
-How should I structure my entry?
-What additional evidence is acceptable?
-What will give my entry an edge?
X hashtag: #APMawards
The Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme webinar
Wednesday 17 April 2024
APM North West Network
Presented by:
Katie Rowlands
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-vyrnwy-aqueduct-modernisation-programme-webinar/
Content description:
Spotlight on the Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme and the challenges facing a large project within Cheshire.
The Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme is one of United Utilities largest projects focused on the modernisation of three 42” aqueducts that carry clean drinking water across the North West.
This webinar covered the Vyrnwy project and an insight into the project challenges that face a live project within the Cheshire area.
APM event hosted by the London Network on 10 April 2024.
Speaker: Nick Fewings, MD of Ngagementworks
In March 2022, Nick Fewings, Ngagementworks, MD of Ngagementworks, published Team Lead Succeed, based on his 30+years of both leading operational and project teams, and subsequently facilitating team development around the world.
It has become a best seller, with a 96% 5-star review rating, and has been read on 5 of the 7 continents.
In this interactive session, Nick will share learning from Team Lead Succeed that can be applied immediately and make a positive difference to your teamwork.
Nick will share the importance of knowing both WHO is in your team and also HOW effective your teamwork is.
Only 10% of teams achieve high-performance, with 50% being average and 40% dysfunctional.
In this session, delivered by award-winning conference speaker Nick Fewings, and author of best-seller Team Lead Succeed, Nick will share his 30+ years of leading teams and facilitating team development.
Nick has profiled 1,000 of individuals and worked with 100s of teams.
Those attending will benefit from understanding;
Why many projects fail to achieve their goals.
Not relying on just measuring KPIs.
The importance of knowing WHO is in your team, both from a behavioural and technical skills aspect.
The 16 areas of high-performance teamwork, and their importance.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/team-lead-succeed-helping-you-and-your-team-achieve-high-performance-teamwork-2/
Currently Knowledge Transfer Subject Matter Expert (Commercial) in the UKDT PMO on the Peru Reconstruction Plan. Stuart has more than 25 years’ track record of commercial and contract management experience working across both public and private sector projects, as well as more than 20 years’ experience in the development and delivery of professional training. As well as working for Gleeds in the UK and Peru, Stuart has also worked in China for Gleeds and has supported people development in Gleeds’ offices in Egypt and Poland. Stuart has been well placed to support the adoption of the NEC and UK Cost Management best practice in Peru – he was Chair of the RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM) initiative and was heavily involved in the creation of the RICS Black Book Guidance (best practice in cost management).
APM event hosted by the Midlands Network on 11 April 2024.
Speaker: Carole Osterweil
Data is power. AI changes everything.
If the claims about both are true, how can we ensure we use data and AI well? And what does it mean for the very things which make us human - our feelings?
In this workshop Carole will draw on material from her ground-breaking book, Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do to answer both questions.
“We like to think our decision making is completely rational. However, once there's an element of uncertainty, conscious assessments are only part of the story. Two other inputs, both subconscious and driven by our innate need to survive, have a big impact.
One, automatic reactions driven by cognitive biases, gets plenty of airtime.
The other input, our raw visceral emotions might be scary to talk about and less understood - but that’s not a reason to pretend they don’t exist!”
This interactive workshop will draw on material from Carole’s book, Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do, published by APM in 2022.
You’ll come away with:
a clear understanding of how the human brain works.
a framework that:
explains ‘why people behave as they do’.
makes it easier to talk about feelings in a matter-of-fact way (so that they become part of your conscious data set)
new insights into yourself and your projects in a world that’s often characterised by stress and disorder.
Act on these insights and you’ll see the impact - on your teams and stakeholders, your decisions about how to use data and AI, and ultimately your project outcomes.
AI in the project profession: examples of current use and roadmaps to adoption webinar
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Association for Project Management
Speaker panel:
Andy Murray, James White, James Garner, Karina Singh and Alex Robertson
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/ai-in-the-project-profession-examples-of-current-use-and-roadmaps-to-adoption-webinar/
Content description:
Disruptive technology and accelerating change is the now the norm within business. Advancements that feel relatively recent are already becoming embedded into business-as-usual activity. AI is one such advancement; it is already being used and having real-world impacts across the project profession.
To help P3M professionals understand the implications of this change, APM invited representatives from organisations that have introduced or are preparing to introduce AI into their project workstreams, to explain their approach and share their insight with fellow professionals.
This webinar on explored how AI is currently being used in project and programme management, and how organisations are gearing up for its adoption.
Katharine works for WRAP which is a climate action NGO working in more than 40 countries around the globe to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future. In this session, you will learn about WRAP’s plastics programme and how sustainability has been incorporated as a core value in delivery of the programme, with the aim of inspiring the audience to take action in their own work.
Kai-Fu Lee predicted that AI would change the world more than anything in the history of humanity – even electricity. It would disrupt how we live and work, how we operate our businesses, the core products and services on offer and the way in which we build technology.
However, in 2024 the impact of AI can no longer be discussed in future tense. With Microsoft copilot now publicly available, the change is already upon us. There is no consultation period or ‘unsubscribe’ button.
Project management professionals are likely to be asked to manage AI projects - and we are expected to skilfully use AI in our daily work lives. While overwhelming, this is not the first time we’ve had to adapt.
Sarah helps her audience sharpen their cutting-edge skills by answering:
What do I need to know about AI right now?
If I’m asked to work on an AI project, what techniques do I need to be successful?
Where do I start my own learning journey to upskill and prepare?
Sarah’s expertise in advanced agile and experience in highly regulated Finance environments give her a unique perspective into balancing governance with technical innovation. She uses her own experience building an AI solution in 2023 to share practical, widely applicable concepts in an “AI for project managers” 101 style session.
B2B payments are rapidly changing. Find out the 5 key questions you need to be asking yourself to be sure you are mastering B2B payments today. Learn more at www.BlueSnap.com.
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Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
Dr. William Harvey is a seasoned Operations Leader with extensive experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, and operations management. At Michelman, he currently oversees multiple sites, leading teams in strategic planning and coaching/practicing continuous improvement. William is set to start his eighth year of teaching at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches marketing, finance, and management. William holds various certifications in change management, quality, leadership, operational excellence, team building, and DiSC, among others.
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[Note: This is a partial preview. To download this presentation, visit:
https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations]
Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction and Key Concepts of Sustainability
2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
To download the complete presentation, visit: https://www.oeconsulting.com.sg/training-presentations
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Keeping benefits management simple, workable, and alive in BT
1. BM in BT Transformation
Keeping BM simple, workable, and alive
in BT
Sheffield Hallam University
Viren Lall
Secretary APM Benefits SIG
Head of Business Transformation, BT
12th March 2013
2. Topics
• Context Setting BT & transformation
• Spotlight on BM and change
• Keeping BM Simple and “owned”
5. BTGS - a Global Leader
A leader in Gartner’s Network Service Provider Magic Quadrants
Global – April 20121 Pan-European – April 20122
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Gartner, Global Network Service Provider Magic Quadrant, Neil Rickard and Robert Mason, April
2012
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Gartner, Pan-European Service Provider Magic Quadrant, Neil Rickard and Katja Ruud, April 2012
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6. Business Transformation
Business transformation is a leadership initiative, typically by the
senior management team, that aims to align an organisation's
initiatives with the organisation’s business strategy and vision.
Value is generated through monetising operational efficiencies
gained.
The benefits of a business transformation programme are
typically expressed as an end state (for example) 50% increased
revenue, 30~% cost reduction or margin improvement, reduction
in end to end cycle time for service delivery by 10 days, a measure
of quality, or 25% improved in customer satisfaction scores.
7. What do I do in BT
• Run Business transformation hothouses 3 day events 50-70
people to achieve outcomes
• Coach/Mentor managers on requirements, benefits, change
• Lead teams of architects, Business Analysts, change managers,
Transformation professionals, developers, PMO, operational
stakeholders, COOs, VP teams
• In brief define stages of transformation and drive transformation. 2
transformation programmes 2300 and 900 people.
• My responsibilities include
• Defining Transformation Strategy
• Enabling Benefit Realisation and maximising opportunity
• Advising on Change
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8. Topics
• Context Setting BT & transformation
• Spotlight on BM and change
• Keeping BM Simple and “owned”
9. Target Operating
Business Transformation failures are multioperational
Model
stage
Defining the Developing a Dashb
Implementing the
transformation benefit realisation leading
plan
strategy. plan and b
Same Operating
Strategy Model
Complex. Lofty. Not coherent
Underpinning Transformation Benefits
Not rigorous. Not shared. Nor Agreed
Execution
Failures in Project , Programme, and Change
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10. Business Transformation failures -
common causes
Strategy Underpinning Execution
Complex. Lofty. Transformation Failures in Project ,
Not coherent Benefits Programme, and Change
Not rigorous. Not
shared. Nor Agreed
1. Fluff 1. Focussed on delivery 1. Project failure
2. Goals 2. Delivery of tech and 2. Stakeholder
3. Hierarchies benefits will happen management failure
4. Not linked to 3. No line of sight to 3. Poor implementation of
a challenge realisation change management
4. No accountability
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15. Even adoption BM is a change
So do people resist change?
People resist being changed
People definitely resist the ambiguity of change
More often than not its lack of awareness and/or
skill and people will most definitely resist moving into
areas beyond their capability
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16. Topics
• Context Setting BT & transformation
• Spotlight on BM and change
• Keeping BM Simple and “owned”
24. Supporting stakeholder engagement – top 10 tips
• Build the benefits map collaboratively - gets buy-in and helps delivery team
to visualise the benefits. Resist
– discouraging them from producing it! You will be surprised
– walking in with a complete product – it prevents them from being overwhelmed
– Creating it offline and bringing it back – you miss the golden chance of them owning it as a
part of the creative process. Ownership supports accountability for realisation
• Build iteratively within projects and work-streams for large programmes and
then aggregate
• Be firm about the conventions for producing the maps, but not at the cost of
being a barrier to production
• Invest time in smartening maps to create clear communication tools
It is an intuitive, logical tool and when executed well
produces fabulous results
25. Supporting stakeholder engagement – top 10 tips
• Prepare stakeholders for Benefits Realisation Management with short
briefing sessions
• Understand their objectives, explain it’s a non linear process and get them
to own the results of the finished product
• Use benefits maps to communicate actively through to your stakeholders
groups
• Quantify in benefits profiles and record in benefits register
• Having achieved consensus, assign responsibilities and accountabilities
both for tracking and for realisation
It is an intuitive, logical tool and when executed well
produces fabulous results
26. Supporting stakeholder engagement – top 10 tips
• Prepare stakeholders for Benefits Realisation Management with short
briefing sessions
• Understand their objectives, explain it’s a non linear process and get them
to own the results of the finished product
• Use benefits maps to communicate actively through to your stakeholders
groups
• Quantify in benefits profiles and record in benefits register
• Having achieved consensus, assign responsibilities and accountabilities
both for tracking and for realisation
It is an intuitive, logical tool and when executed well
produces fabulous results