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APM’s Gill Hancock recognised for industry leadership in the built environment  Built environment • Leadership  Gill Hancock, Head of Technical Content at Association for Project Management (APM), has been included on the New Year Honours list of FIS, the representative body for the finishes and interiors sector in the UK. Read article >

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How AI driven Norfolk project is transforming patient care  AI • Data  A pioneering project is using artificial intelligence to identify residents most at risk of falling, shifting the focus from reacting to a more proactive and preventative approach. Read article >

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Five AI trends for 2026 that project managers need to consider

  AI • Artificial intelligence  

In 2025, TIME magazine crowned the ‘Architects of AI’ as its Person of the Year, recognising the handful of leaders who are fundamentally reshaping our world. This was not a niche tech award; it was a mainstream acknowledgment that artificial intelligence (AI) has become a dominant force in the global economy, geopolitics and the fabric of our daily lives. 

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Six signs of the invisible cost of people problems on your project

  Teamwork • Communication  

When projects slip behind schedule or budgets balloon, it’s easy to blame the usual suspects: scope creep, contractual wrangles or technical hiccoughs. But often, the real culprit is people issues – miscommunication, mismatched expectations or simmering tensions quietly derailing progress long before your Gantt chart shows red.

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Unlocking productivity: Embracing efficiency over bureaucracy

 Teamwork • Leadership 

I’m sure it has happened to most of us: working under a tight project deadline while bureaucracy keeps us busy and makes us feel like we’re not making the best use of our time. Tight deadlines are common in projects — and so, unfortunately, is bureaucracy. But that shouldn’t be the case.

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Aligning the unaligned: The leadership skill every project team needs

 Teamwork • Leadership 

Across every sector I’ve worked in — aviation, rail, highways, technology and digital delivery — one truth has remained: projects rise or fall on alignment. Not effort. Not intelligence. Not even resource. Alignment.

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