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Funding and the future of project management

The economic status quo will decide the future of program, portfolio and project management, according to Andrew Leicester, director of PMGlobal.

November 29, 2012

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Brookfield Multiplex darling of construction project awards

Construction company Brookfield Multiplex has won the International Hotel Awards’ Best New Hotel Design and Construction accolade for its Sydney project The Darling at The Star. The award, presented in London earlier this month, joins the contractor’s golden run at the NSW Master Builder Awards

November 26, 2012

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New focus on project management capability

Digital learning provider ILX Group has launched a suite of assessment tools to measure project management capability. According to chief operating officer Eddie Kilkelly, ILX Group developed the tools to address poor project performance.

November 25, 2012

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Survey shows tools boost collaboration, productivity

Collaboration software company Mindjet has revealed that delivering projects on time and on budget ranked first as the most important aspect of collaboration activity.

November 9, 2012

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Disaster management book launched

Disaster management practitioner Dr Paul Steinfort and education expert Angela Lecomber have contributed a chapter on appropriate project management training for disaster and emergency situations to a new book entitled Next Generation Disaster & Security Management, edited by Dr Michael Clarke and Ged Griffin.

November 6, 2012

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Connexion launches world-first benefits management software

Connexion Systems has launched the world’s first benefits management software to meet the demands of the current economic climate where projects need to return billions of dollars of investment.

November 1, 2012

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Winning project alliances reflect culture of value

Four of Australasia’s most cost-efficient, high quality, timely and innovative project alliances won awards at the 2012 Alliancing Association of Australasia’s Excellence Awards last week, reflecting the current culture of value, said AAA acting chief executive Ron Quill.

October 29, 2012

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Philanthropist funds University of Sydney project centre

John Grill, recently retired chief executive of international engineering and project services company WorleyParsons, has donated $20 million to the University of Sydney for a project management initiative: the John Grill Centre for Project Leadership.

October 25, 2012

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