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06 June 2017 | 10:21
Joop Schefferlie
IPMA Agile Leadership
By digital disruption we face the greatest revolution in corporate organization since 1800. It is unknown what will happen, no one will be prepared. Digital disruption is the disruptive effect of new technologies on the market. It provides newcomers to compete with established organizations. A famous example of digital disruption is Uber, which changes the […]
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24 May 2017 | 6:47
Reinhard Wagner
Performing virtual project meetings
Many project teams are nowadays spread across the globe and therefore cannot not (regularly) meet physically. Most of their meetings are performed virtually, usually by means of a web conference or a collaboration tool. The participants can see each other, establish a dialogue and chat via the online tool, they can work on documents, perform […]
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22 May 2017 | 4:46
Reinhard Wagner
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Vasco da Gama
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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17 May 2017 | 6:39
Reinhard Wagner
The interrelations between projects, programmes and change
This week the ISO/TC258/WG4 finishes its work on a new standard, the ISO 21503 “Guidance on Programme Management”. The core team of about twenty international experts and many more in national mirror committees explored the topic of programme management over more than three years. One of the key points of the discussion was to clearly […]
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15 May 2017 | 7:25
Helgi Thor Ingason
Are you a candidate for the IPMA Research Awards?
Research is one of the basic building blocks of every profession. IPMA promotes and acknowledges outstanding research world-wide and thereby encourages academics and practitioners to develop the profession through rigourus research. The annual IPMA Research Awards is an important part of this strategy and the goal of IPMA Research Awards is to promote excellence within […]
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11 May 2017 | 7:58
Sandra Misic
The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management
Megaprojects are very large investment projects. The team “Mega” often implies the size of the task involved in developing, planning, and managing projects of this magnitude. Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford says that globally, megaprojects make up 8 percent of total GDP. They attract a lot […]
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08 May 2017 | 7:19
Reinhard Wagner
Japan meets Europe – Contribute to ProMAC 2017 in Munich
ProMAC has been organized since 2002 by the Society of Project Management (SPM), Japan. ProMAC 2017 will be conducted for the first time ever outside of the Asian-Pacific Region. The conference is a joint undertaking of SPM, GPM (GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement, Germany), and IPMA (International Project Management Association) and will happen between November […]
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05 May 2017 | 5:07
Reinhard Wagner
Management 4.0 – Handbook for Agile Practices
A recently released Handbook is worth mentioning on this Blog, because it addresses a topic, which is a „hot topic“ in the world of projects, and the way it was developed is even more remarkable. But one after the other. Nowadays, all conferences, publications and seminars need to address the topic of „Agility, Agile or […]
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03 May 2017 | 8:36
Reinhard Wagner
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Alexander von Humboldt
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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01 May 2017 | 11:14
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Ecuador
The Federal Republic of Ecuador, which is literally the “Republic of the Equator” is located in the Northwest of South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the East and South, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. It also includes the famous Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres to the […]
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