APM Blogs

It has been said that it would be a boring world if we were all the same.

The Association for Project Management (APM) and Pharmaceutical Industry Project Management Group (PIPMG) life science event that took place earlier this year laid out some of the major challenges that the life sciences sector is facing.

Big data, machine learning, data mining, data trusts and the Internet of Things (IoT) … a common list of concepts that would be potential subjects for most thought leadership pieces; but what do they actually mean for project professionals, organisations and the project profession at large? The opportunities afforded to individuals and organisations employing AI, data and analytics are far reaching.

Tom Hoffman’s work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has expanded human knowledge about the wider solar system, and Earth’s place within it.

The United Kingdom (UK) is now out of the European Union (EU).

The latest Projecting the Future challenge paper is about smart cities, urbanisation and connectivity.

Organisations that fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and value delivery are wasting eye-watering amounts of money on poor project performance.

Micromanaging is the ‘need’ on the part of any leader to supervise every step of every task that they have assigned to others, in order to make sure it is done right, well and on time.

After much debate, the decision has been made for the UK’s second high-speed rail network, HS2, to go ahead.

Tailoring the project management office (PMO) function to the specific needs of a given business, whether explicit or implied, is crucial.