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We like to keep up to date with the latest news and trends and also like to share a thought or two ourselves. Here you will find an array of insights on managing business transformation and how to achieve project success, see what our team have been up to and who we have been working with in our press section.
Finding the Right Balance in Your ERP Making sure an ERP works for your company and your requirements is key, but can be surprisingly tricky. A challenge often encountered when implementing an ERP system is knowing the difference between customisation and configuration and the...
A blog about graphene and 2D materials is not necessarily a topic you would expect to come across very often. However, following a talk held at the APM Manchester conference on the 7th December 2017, James Baker convinced us that it is actually an...
There has been much talk about the next industrial revolution, and this topic was addressed at the APM North conference in Manchester on 5 December 2017, with expert input from Mark Batey of the University of Manchester. For those not familiar with the terminology...
As the Christmas period approaches, thoughts slowly turn towards the New Year and what next year entails. It’s easy to forget that the festive period can be the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ for networking outside of the office. Networking is a crucial...
Last week, we attended the Association for Project Management’s (APM) launch of their new ‘Introduction to Managing Change’ guide. Surprisingly this was one of the professional body’s first dives into change management and its relationship to Project Management. Dr Mark Hughes, who wrote the...
As the deadlines for MIFID II and GDPR draw closer, it’s a good time to take stock and reflect on the last 18 months. You wouldn’t have to be standing very far from the city skyline to notice the sector is undergoing an unprecedented...
In the first part of this series, we covered a short history of Agile and had a brief look at its four underpinning values. Considering the many misconceptions out there, it is important to stress that these values are not to be considered opposites,...
Following on from our previous blog posts on the insightful PMI synergy conference we have consolidated our key takeaways on the theme of the conference and buzz word of the moment, Agile! Many of the barriers for successful agile lie in HR, culture and...
This year’s CBI Annual Conference didn’t disappoint – as well as a host of insight from the leaders at some of the UK’s biggest business, we were also joined by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the US Secretary of State...
One of our favourite talks at the PMI conference last week emerged from a wonderfully vivid talk by Stephen Bungay, introduced by an 8 minute clip of the battle at the start of the film, Gladiator. The film was used to effectively convey the...
Last Thursday a couple of our consultants attended Project Management Institute’s annual Synergy conference themed around the concept of being Agile, leadership qualities and how important understanding people is to project management. Our favourite talks included one by Steven Carver, where using the case...
