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.
Solid foundations are fundamental to keeping your project on track, writes Scott Fraser Successful projects need momentum.
Whenever I speak about the differences between management and leadership, I always emphasise that the differentiating factor isn’t the level of cognitive ability or technical skill that someone has.
I saw a great presentation by Tom Peters, the American writer on business management practices.
This week I saw that the Introductory Certificate was now available online what an achievement for the APM! Of course, this forms part of Strategy 2020 making APM products available to a wider range of people through an increasing number of channels.
It is a debate that I have come across on a number of occasions during my time as Project magazine editor which are more successful, public or private sector projects?Private sector projects are more customer focused, whereas in the public sector there is more emphasis on economy more bang for your buck.
How we work and communicate has changed radically in recent years, with significant numbers across society, including within the project management profession, now using devices that mean we can be in contact and carrying out work and other activities, 24/7, instantly and unrelentingly.
Leadership is a challenging space to get right no matter what role you are fulfilling.
In a ‘first of its type’ event for APM, breakfast with 17 industry leaders in the PPM world tested the latest APM research on Conditions for Project Success as a part of our journey to APM’s vision statement: ‘A world in which all projects succeed’.
Every few months the soft versus hard skills debate resurrects in the pages of Project magazine.