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09 November 2016 | 9:08
Michael Boxheimer
IPMA Project Excellence Model – the core element to make a project business successful
Nanjing Urban Construction Project Management & Development Co.Ltd. (NUCPMD) Assessment of the Nanjing Public Health Center Project NUCPMD applied in 2015 for the IPMA Project Excellence Award and I want to share my and my team´s impressions about the company´s very successful approach to use the IPMA Project Excelence Model as core element to lead […]
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07 November 2016 | 11:04
Sandra Misic
Megaprojects in Australia
Infrastructure has a central role in the development of an emerging economy or sustenance of a mature economy. Australia’s robust economy, growing trade and changing demographics are some of the factors driving demand for better and modern infrastructure. There is a persistent need in the country to invest in new infrastructure as well on maintenance […]
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26 October 2016 | 7:35
Sandra Misic
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Nikola Tesla
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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18 October 2016 | 9:25
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Brazil
The Federative Republic of Brazil is the fifth-largest country by area and population of the world. It is located in South-America, connected to nearly all other countries of the continent, has a coastline of about 7.500 kilometers and its Amazon River basin is covering a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of […]
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04 October 2016 | 8:49
Reinhard Wagner
Strategies for Project Sponsorship
In recent blogposts we already highlighted the importance of project sponsorship. The book “Strategies for Project Sponsorship” addresses the challenges of sponsorship from all three vantage points – that of the project manager, the project sponsor and the organisation. In a nutshell, project sponsorship is an active senior management role, identifying the business needs, ensuring […]
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19 September 2016 | 7:57
Reinhard Wagner
Leading project teams without (disciplinary) power
Leadership is different in projects. Typically, project managers do not have disciplinary power like line managers. Leadership WITH disciplinary power means to hold a couple of tools in your hands, including but not limited to allowing for vacations, offering training opportunities, raising the salary or promoting employees to the next level. However, a means could […]
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12 September 2016 | 7:02
Reinhard Wagner
500 years of German Beer Purity Law
This year Bavaria celebrates a law that is 500 years in existence and is the most popular law as it impacts the way beer brewing is conducted. The roots can be dated back as early as in the 15th Century. However, 1516 a series of orders were published in Bavaria and later in whole Germany […]
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08 September 2016 | 10:15
Reinhard Wagner
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence – impacts on PM!?
I thought it might be interesting to draw your attention to a study launched in 2014. This study, called the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI), is a series of periodic studies initiated by Eric Horvitz with focus on how AI will affect automation, national security, psychology, ethics, law, privacy, democracy and other […]
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05 September 2016 | 7:32
Reinhard Wagner
Asking clients for feedback
In external projects we intend to deliver according to specification within time and budget. However, clients expect more from us. They want us to establish a good relationship based on mutual trust, open communication, opportunities for co-creation developing new products or technology, sustainable solutions, business opportunities as well as other benefits. This is typically not […]
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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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