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01 September 2016 | 5:54
Reinhard Wagner
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Werner von Siemens
With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It […]
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22 August 2016 | 9:09
Reinhard Wagner
Olympic Games for Project Management!?
Yesterday, the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro came to an end. It was a major international multi-sport event with more than 11.000 athletes from 207 National Olympic Committees attending 306 events in 28 sports. Top scorer were the USA, Great Britain, China, Russia and Germany, collecting more than 330 medals in Gold, Silver and […]
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15 August 2016 | 9:33
Reinhard Wagner
The SWOT-Analysis – panacea or hazard?
Everyone knows it and uses it in projects, the SWOT-Analysis. The letters SWOT are an abbreviation for “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats”. It is often used for analyzing the current situation and deriving actions being performed through a project or programme. A SWOT-Analysis can be performed before starting into a project, during the project as […]
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10 August 2016 | 5:31
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Indonesia
The Republic of Indonesia is a country in South-East Asia, situated between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. It is the world´s largest island country, constituted of more than 13.000 island, bigger and smaller ones. With more than 250 Million inhabitants it is one of the most populous countries of the world, most of the people […]
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22 July 2016 | 5:34
Reinhard Wagner
It’s child’s play to manage projects
Project management is a serious profession. It developed over time and there are many possibilities of getting higher education, training and certification in the field. Somehow all this make us believe that we need to study hard to be successful. However, Daniel Defoe wrote in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697) that the “the honest projector […]
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11 July 2016 | 6:56
Reinhard Wagner
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Ferdinand Zeppelin
With this article we´d like to start a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” […]
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01 July 2016 | 7:04
Peter Tarnoki
Path to success in manufacturing world – a case from Hungary
One of our decades long supporter as well as corporate member LEGRAND Hungary Ltd. was winnig the Hungarian manufacturers’contest multiple honours: which elevated the Company Legrand amongst the best factories under the leading CEO Mr.Laszlo KAROLYI. He has been working for 21 years at the Legrand Group and was appointed CEO for Legrand Hungary in […]
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13 June 2016 | 6:44
Reinhard Wagner
Lean Project Management – old wine in new bottles or a real gain?
Like all other management disciplines, project management is subject to new concepts and developments – and not free of fashionable words. “Lean” project management is such a concept that is marketed as new concept for project managers and organisations as a “must have” for success. Lean should not be mixed with “meager” or “slim”, it […]
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08 June 2016 | 7:18
Paul Hodgkins
The importance of Project Management
In this five minute video, Paul Hodgkins shares his views on the project management profession; the differences he sees between project, programme and portfolio management and the importance of positioning project management as a ‘life-skill’.
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30 May 2016 | 7:19
Reinhard Wagner
Forming project teams – the right mix is key to success
It is well known, that teamwork is essential for projects. Many research papers, books and standards (like the IPMA ICB) highlight this fact. Bruce Tuckman´s stages of team development – forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning – are well known in the community and explained in nearly all project management trainings. However, little attention has […]
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