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The rise of the change manager

The increased volume, pace and complexity of change has produced a new profession: the Change Manager. Catherine Smithson blogs on what project managers should expect of a change manager and how change managers can enhance their work.

July 25, 2011

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Change

Surviving project change

A significant organisational change event such as a merger, acquisition or change in CEO can have a dramatic impact on existing business projects, especially those tagged ‘discretionary spend’. These types of changes present numerous professional and personal challenges to the project manager.

April 29, 2011

How to work with a change manager on a project

The project manager’s job is to deliver the solution and the change manager’s job is to prepare people to receive the solution. One of the challenges is always that positioning. In my experience, the only time it works is when the change manager has equal influence to the project manager. They do two ends of the same job.

April 21, 2011

Change

The changing face of portfolio management

Change is here to stay. Not so long ago, the accepted wisdom was that organisations would introduce change, stop and consolidate, then gear up to change again. Change was a disruption to normal. Today, organisations are in a state of constant change or “permanent whitewater” as leadership development expert Peter Vaille termed it. Today, ‘normal’ […]

March 24, 2011

Why IT Projects Fail

It is true that IT projects have a phenomenal rate of failure? An examination of what makes IT projects prone to failure and what good project managers can do.

March 16, 2011

A new paradigm for program management

There is often a gap between the strategic vision and plans of a corporate executive or board and the immediate needs experienced by staff at the coalface. Responding to the latter is generally a more tactical focus, possibly consuming resources that might otherwise be directed at addressing the corporate strategies. Likewise, without comprehensive communication and […]

February 25, 2011

PMI to host Biopharmaceutical Project Management Conference

The Project Management Institute’s Pharmaceutical Community of Practice (PMI Pharma CoP) will hold its 6th Annual Biopharmaceutical Project Management Conference in North Carolina, USA, this year. The conference, held over 7-9 March 2011, will look at the transformation of the pharmaceutical industry with regard to operational and regulatory issues and the role of project managers […]

February 23, 2011

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