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13 September 2016 | 2:24
Gundars Strazdins
Managing Virtual Teams – the GeCCo Experience
With the announcement of the Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo) 2016, I would like to share some of my thought about the growing phenomena across the project management field. That phenomenon is undeniably working in the virtual teams and essentially managing the projects. Projects without ever meeting your fellow team members, yet ensuring that the project […]
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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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29 August 2016 | 10:30
Reinhard Wagner
Sponsoring a project – a key role for successful delivery
In this blogpost a key role for the successful delivery of a project shall be discussed. It´s the role of the “project sponsor”. GAPPS, the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards, published in 2015 a Guiding Framework for Project Sponsors. The Framework defines the role as follows: “The sponsor is an individual who may be […]
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25 August 2016 | 5:33
Reinhard Wagner
Managing and working in Project Society
Many surveys proof the fact, that we experience an increasing number and importance of projects in our society. Research about project activities in Germany show that in 2013 already more than one third of the GDP resulted from project activities, the trends point towards 50% in 2020. A significant increase for the business, the public […]
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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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09 August 2016 | 4:23
Brigitte Schaden
The next GAPPS Thought Leadership Forum in Sydney!
The next TLF will take place from 13th to 14th October 2016. The purpose to link it with IPMA meetings and the AIPM conference is to give people, who are already in Sydney but not involved in a meeting, the opportunity to participate at least for one day. (There are also single day rates available). Based […]
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27 July 2016 | 3:50
Reinhard Wagner
The unleashed globe – living in uncertain times
Recently, Munich suffered from a rampage of a single male who killed nine people before committing suicide. The whole city was under alert and people were scared recalling the pictures of recent terrorist attacks in Nice, Paris, Brussels and many other places outside of Europe. The coup in Turkey and the clean-up of the government […]
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