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Economic benefits of hiring professionals back into the workplace “Addressing the career break penalty for women could boost the UK economy by £1.

If we had a magic ball that could tell us why projects fail we could make millions.

The purpose of this blog is to provide some practical guidance on how to implement benefits management; a few simple measures will enable organisations to focus on realising benefits from their investments in change.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2013) suggest a figure of 60%.

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.