APM Blogs

Complex projects need managerial leaders who understand systems and the benefits that systems thinking can bring.

Over the past 25 years I’ve had the privilege of working across numerous sectors and on a variety of different project types – for example civil engineering, new product development, business change, social change, R&D, to name a few.

Writing about project professionals as agents of change for the forthcoming spring 2023 issue of Project journal was a great opportunity to get under the bonnet of three outstanding APM Award-winning projects from Rolls-Royce, the MOD and Openreach.

"Anger and aggression sometimes seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but that energy is blind.

You’ve been in project management for a few years with some good achievements under your belt.

This year we’re celebrating 25 years of the APM Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group (WiPM SIG).

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.

Change management.

Sounding like something from Victorian times, we are firmly in an Age of Austerity.

On the evening of Monday 15 November, we were delighted to reopen the doors to the APM Project Management Awards 2021, sponsored by RPC UK at Old Billingsgate, London.