Against all odds – learning from great projectors: James Watt

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 […]

Talking about risks….will it help?

Does one also like to talk about risks in your organisation? Or even how those risks should be managed. Mmmm… already a little afraid of such. And…if one talks about risks, how much enthusiasm does it bring? Isn’t it quite often more of a “must do”, rather then a like to do? Or is your […]

IPMA Kids and IPMA Junior – project management from the very beginning

IPMA Poland is engaged in activities aimed at shaping attitudes and building awareness in the area of project management in children and adolescents. It conducts trainings and workshops in partnership with two institutions: It is supported by the Children’s University of Economics and the Academy of Young Economist, as well as by volunteers from the […]

IPMA MarComm Specialists Team Meeting, 8-10 February, Warsaw, Poland

For the first time ever, the IPMA invited its’ Member Associations to delegate their marketing and communications specialists to a global meeting. Participants from 30 countries, 5 continents, met to discuss improvements – on both local sides as well as on the IPMA side. Among them we welcomed those developed and large Member Associations (like […]

Project Manager 2.0: The proposed skills set

The VASB (Virtual reality, Artificial intelligence, Social media, Big data) age order is changing the thinking, behaviours, and day-to-day management routines of personal and professional lives of people. Businesses and government entities are left with no option but to embrace the change and transform their processes and systems. The impact of the transformation is wide […]

Tech Trends 2019. Beyond the digital frontier

With its 10th Anniversary Edition of Tech Trends 2019, Deloitte provides insights about what is already available, what´s coming next and what in future. “Over the last 10 years, cloud analytics, and technologies empowering digital experiences have steadily disrupted IT operations, business models and markets. Though these now-familiar forces may no longer qualify as »trends«, […]

The dual operating system of a project-oriented organization

When John P. Kotter published his book “Accelerate – Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World” five years ago, he came to the following conclusions: “The world is now changing at a rate at which the basic systems, structures and cultures built over the past century cannot keep up with the demands being placed on […]

Creating strategic value through transformational programs and projects

The John Grill Centre for Project Leadership at The University of Sydney recently published a research paper which highlights the importance of transformational projects and programmes for creating strategic value. The researchers spoke with executives from “progressive” project-facing organisations to understand how they are transforming themselves to deliver on transformational programs and projects. These executives […]

“Project Management and its impact on societies” – about the 6th IPMA Research Conference in Rio de Janeiro

It was a rather ambitious goal for the 6h IPMA Research Conference on 2-3 September 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More than 60 Project Management practitioners and researchers wanted to develop nothing less than a better understanding for the various impacts of the increasing diffusion of projects as the new form of organisation not […]

Projects and project management in Italy

Italy is a country in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. It shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved states San Marino and Vatican City. Due to its central geographic location in the Mediterranean, the region has historically been home to a myriad of peoples and cultures. Especially known is […]