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Change management.

So what do people actually do on projects, and in particular do they collaborate with each other? If they do collaborate how has this come about? And if collaboration is lacking, how then do we as project managers and leaders, encourage more collaboration?What is collaboration?Collaboration means different things to different people.

I thought I’d blog about my most recent experience of working in Government.

New APM Enabling Change SIG publication reveals six critical factors in creating effective, systemic and sustainable public sector change programmes Ten years ago, Staffordshire Fire Service faced a question challenging all public service or publicly funded organisations: how would it continue to offer high quality services to its local community in the face of budget cuts and funding austerity? Senior managers knew that the way that the Fire Service delivered its offer would have to radically change in order to prevent a rapid deterioration in its offer to the public, its stakeholders and other emergency service partners.

One of the most challenging aspects of project management is managing the expectations of stakeholders, users and sponsors.

In spite of decades of effort and high profile campaigns, the number of women occupying leadership roles in executive teams hovers stubbornly around the 8-10% mark.

‘Digital Transformation’ in essence is a movement encapsulating the rapid and pervasive discussion and adoption of technology inside organisations.

“Works of art have many meanings and some have more meanings, but even if all their meanings may never be known to any one observer, his obligation is still to encounter each work from as many aspects of his own intellectual and emotional experience as he can.

I have written elsewhere about 2017 being a year of change.

Every year numerous surveys tell us the same things that we have been reading for the last 40 years – more projects fail than succeed.