Providing risk infrastructure to support opportunity management

Failure to provide an appropriate level of risk infrastructure can cripple risk management in an organisation. Too little support makes it difficult to implement the risk process efficiently, while too much infrastructure adds to the cost overhead.

September 12, 2019

• Risk

10 ways the Iron Triangle destroys project success

There is an assumption that the Iron Triangle/Triple Constraint measures of ‘on time, on budget, to specification’ are benign but use of these measures actively enables and inadvertently encourages the destruction of business value, argues Jed Simms.

November 18, 2015

• Benefits Realisation
• Blogs

How project managers can combat silo thinking

Threats emerge and opportunities are missed when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Editor Adeline Teoh explains how project managers can bridge silos, support better risk management and assist innovation.

September 1, 2015

• Blogs

Thinking at the margin for project managers

Thinking at the margin is what happens when people make decisions based on incremental cost-benefit analyses. It’s a factor in agile project management—but there’s a downside, warns editor Adeline Teoh.

July 20, 2015

• Blogs

When opportunity knocks

By quietly listening for the opportunities in your life, and learning to recognise them in all their different forms, you can find plenty of avenues for self-improvement, says Michelle LaBrosse.

January 15, 2015

• Blogs

The double life of risk

Risk is a double-sided concept, Risk Doctor David Hillson reminds us. We use the word ‘opportunity’ to describe an upside risk with positive impacts, and ‘threat’ for downside risks with negative consequences.

October 27, 2014

• Risk

Finding opportunities to change

Embarking on change means taking on more work, and most of all risk. The incentive to take risks and engender change is virtually non-existent. Roger LaSalle wants this to change.

November 13, 2013

• Change

Stop! This project is too safe

We wrap children in cotton wool so they don’t hurt themselves, only to find that they no longer have the confidence to do anything for themselves any more. Is the same thing happening to projects? asks editor Adeline Teoh. Is a fear of failure preventing success?

August 16, 2013

• Blogs