Highly skilled, agile contractors may be key for you during this period of uncertainty and business recovery to keep critical programs delivering and/or minimise business recovery timeframes Most industries and businesses are under significant pressure to keep delivering strategic and business critical programmes & projects with a view to minimising business recovery time frames due [...]
This article is aimed at Junior level PM’s but none-the-less; it’s a critical component of the PM’s responsibilities and is often overlooked to the detriment of Projects !. […]
A number of years back; a clear, bubbly beverage called “Crystal Pepsi” made quite a splash in the market until it completely bombed and went out of production in a few months. Why this project failed had many reasons, even quite interesting ones such as corporate sabotage, the saturation of ‘clear’ products in the market [...]
Most people will say that a project is a temporary management setting needed to deliver some unique benefit to the business. And, project management is the governance — the principles, processes and tools — which is used when delivering projects. But what does this really mean? And, of greater importance, how does project management result in business [...]
Last week Casseo had the pleasure of participating in the Mid-West Project Management Forum hosted at the Kemmy Business School by University of Limerick. This Forum is a fantastic initiative advocating best practice and creates Networking, Collaboration and Learning opportunities for Project, Change & Transformation professionals in the Mid-West region. To date over 30 companies [...]
Having a talented project manager is the first step to actual project success, but there are other important factors that contribute largely to a project’s outcome. It takes careful planning, attention to detail and effective communication to make a project succeed. With vigilant management and a strong project closing, a company can consistently reach project [...]
The Project Management profession is in growth mode. Research by the Project Management Institute (PMI) indicates that the number of roles globally will grow by 33% in the next 10 years with forecasts that there will be 88 million people working in a Project Management related role by 2027. In the research the head of [...]
Business organisations follow a variety of structures and models. Unlike a physical structure which is usually static, an organisational structure is a dynamic system. It outlines how activities are directed in order to achieve the business goals of an organisation. Activities can include rules, roles and responsibilities. The structure also determines information flow, as well [...]
In her last article, Julie talked about some of the key aspects you must consider when defining a target operating model. In this follow up piece she has delved a little deeper to look at how TOM initiatives can vary across different types of businesses; from large corporates to start-ups and government organisations. Author – Julie [...]
The term Target Operating Model (or TOM) has been used a lot in many of the organisations that I have worked for all around the world over the years. Many 100s of millions of dollars in business change budget has been invested in these projects along with many 1000s of people, man hours and resources. [...]
