Leading built asset consultancy EC Harris sees those individuals on their Higher Apprenticeship in Project Management scheme as the organisation’s ‘future leaders’.Richard Bonner, partner at EC Harris, told APM how the Higher Apprenticeship in Project Management scheme has allowed them to train excellent young talent to the specific needs of their business: “We work with young people to mould them to both the needs of our professional requirements defined by APM’s Five Dimensions of Professionalism, but also equally to the needs of our clients,” said Richard.EC Harris was among one of the...
The APM is very happy to announce MWH Global has gained corporate accreditation for its “Manage the Project” approach to delivering project management practice consistently, globally. This demonstrates real commitment from MWH to the project management profession, and to its project managers. It also sets a clear benchmark for companies operating in similar markets to MWH both in the UK and internationally. MWH is a global leader in the provision of strategic planning, design, construction and engineering programme management services for projects around the world. While wet infrastructure...
APM are delighted to announce that Atos UK has recently gained APM Corporate Accreditation for its ‘UK Programme & Project Management Practice Development Scheme’. This is a great achievement as it allows Atos to demonstrate to their customers, suppliers and employees that they are committed to the highest standards of project management professional development.Chief Executive of APM, Andrew Bragg, presented their certificate to Steve Sutton, Senior Vice President, Systems Integration, on 20th March (pictured right) and said, “The Association for Project Management is...
I was interested to read an account of what happened at last year’s Volunteers’ Forum in the pages of the December edition of Network magazine, which in particular included some information about Continuing Professional Development (CPD).The article refers to an on-going research project from Kingston University Business School. Apparently 88 % of respondents to their survey (what survey I thought) felt that CPD adds value to their work and enables them to do their job better. As many as 65% thought it so important that they have actually paid for it!The article states that the session was...
APM created a new pan-sector standard last March to raise the bar of project professionalism to a whole new level. APM Registered Project Professional (RPP) looks to recognise the value that competent and capable project professionals can offer. This is something that Shell sees as vitally important.The global group of energy and petrochemical companies has been developing its project management capability for 100 years and continues to build a global community of project professionals. The Shell Project Academy (SPA) is at the heart of this drive, providing a world-class competence...
Despite the seemingly endless stream of news surrounding the Eurozone debt crisis and resulting economic insecurity, there is a continued commitment by UK government towards infrastructure projects that will provide the stimulus for financial recovery.This is a welcome strategy and one that has to succeed, because history tells us that project failure not only means non-delivery of intended benefits, but also exponential increase to costs.This is the driver behind APM’s vision of a world in which all projects succeed. We believe that with the right capability in initiation, sponsorship,...
On this day in 1972, 78 people paid their £1 subscription to become the first members of the Association for Project Management (APM). Back then the Association was simply known as the British arm of INTERNET – an organisation that later became the International Project Management Association (IPMA). Forty years later APM is now the largest professional body of its kind in Europe with over 19,700 individual and 500 corporate members.A lot has happened in 40 years. Most notably is APM President Martin Barnes (pictured right alongside APM Chairman Mike Nichols) creating the Time-Cost-Quality...
Ensuring the success of projects is not something Siemens leaves to chance.With almost half of its global revenues coming from projects, ensuring Siemens has knowledgeable, capable and competent project managers is crucial for their ongoing business success. The dependency on project business is even starker in the UK, where almost two thirds of Siemens revenues are project related and where the projects are becoming ever more challenging, complex and demanding.By sharing APM’s drive for project professionalism Siemens has overhauled its UK Project Management Academy for 2012 by linking to...
Dayner ProudfootWednesday, January 25, 2012 - 11:02
Project professionals were urged to pick up the baton and take forward all the good things from the Olympic build project.Speaking at the inaugural APM Learning Legacy event in London on Monday night, Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chief executive Dennis Hone called on project and programme managers to become “ambassadors” for good PM in all walks of life.The event – part of APM’s Learning Legacy event series held at the Charing Cross Hotel – saw four key players from the ‘big build’ programme come together to share the knowledge and lessons learned from the London 2012 construction project...
