APM Blogs

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.

Carmel McConnell, the opening keynote speaker of APM’s Change Changes conference, set the theme for the day’s multiple discussions: the power of purpose.

For the winter 2017 issue of Project, I contributed an article on surge management which is the term I use to refer to the business of both responding to surge events and creating them.

Many organisation’s operations have been severely shaken these last few years due to forced changes in business practice and customer behaviour.

Throughout my career I have chaired and sat on a vast number of interview panels, both for project management roles and for other senior roles.