Social Media in PM: The Good news

Social media is changing the life landscape big time. The recent reports suggest that the use of Social media is growing in diversity and influence in every sphere of life. More than 50% of internet users in majority of European countries actively use Social media, showing an expanding social media penetration and influence (Statista, 2018). […]

Project Management and its Impact on Societies

  This year´s theme of the IPMA Research Conference “Project management and the impact on societies” is dedicated to look deeper in the global trend of projectification, that comprises all areas of life and that seems is ubiquitous in all parts of the world.   The first projectification studies in Germany, Norway and Iceland showed […]

The interrelations between asset and project management

hrough a series of blogpost articles I´d like to highlight the interrelations of project management with other disciplines. This time my focus is on asset management. According to ISO 55000 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_55000], assets are an item, thing or entity that has potential or actual value to an organization… Value can be tangible or intangible, financial or […]

Using Artificial Intelligence in PM: Just a good bedtime story?

Technological evolution has become an unstoppable mindset. Resultantly, actions and behaviours of individuals, organizations and societies are shaped and dictated by their degree of interaction with the technologies around them.  Emerging technologies including, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data and social media are gradually becoming part of our lifestyle. Organizations […]

Decision-making principles for infrastructure projects

The Australian Infrastructure Authority [http://infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/] independently assesses projects, programmes and initiatives for inclusion on the Infrastructure Priority List of the Australian Government, the authoritative list of nationally significant infrastructure investments Australia needs over the next 15 years. It has recently published “Infrastructure Decision Making Principles” [http://infrastructureaustralia.gov.au/policy-publications/publications/infrastructure-decision-making-principles.aspx], which are certainly of interest to all other countries […]

The Shape of Project Leadership

For me, this is one of the shortest blogs I’ve written, but I hope what it has to say will stay with you for a long time. There’s a story I tell at conferences around the world. It’s called ‘The Power of Project Leadership – Seven Leadership Lessons’. It’s a story I like telling because […]

Smart ports – realized through for projects and programmes

Last week the IPMA Insight “Smart Cities” was published, highlighting the role projects, programmes and portfolios play for realization. During a visit of the Port of Rotterdam I was made aware of similar initiatives in the field of ports. The “SmartPort” initiative in Rotterdam [http://smart-port.nl/en/] aspires to develop knowledge together with partners in order to […]

Runners, Repeaters and Strangers – applied to a portfolio of projects

Runners, Repeaters & Strangers, or the RRS-Principle is an approach being used in Lean Manufacturing Management [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BPr755lyU] which can also be used in project portfolio management. As a Lean tool, it is typically used for identifying where to concentrate efforts. It could also be used for evaluation of activities such as products, problems, processes or projects, […]

Papers of IRNOP and IPMA Research Conference 2017 published

Through the Online-Journal “Project Management Research and Practice” a selection of the papers of last year´s IPMA Research Conference were published [https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/node/209]. This Research Conference was about Project Success [https://www.ipma.world/5th-ipma-research-conference-project-success/]. The papers cover the following issues: Mapping the success dimensions of the infrastructure projects in Germany (Ahmed Elsayed Masoud Elbaz, Konrad Spang) Project success assessment […]

Takeaway projects: A missed opportunity?

Higher education (HE) institutions (including universities, colleges and others that qualify) and dedicated Research institutes are the breeding grounds for producing innovations and new knowledge. Typically, HE institutions produce knowledge in two broad ways: (1) as an outcome of their routine operational processes—that is in the process of delivering education, and (2) by providing dedicated […]