How many top priorities should you have?

Do you have 2 or 3 top priorities that appear to make sense, but in reality they often seem to conflict? How can you get real clarity? It isn’t easy, but it is straightforward  Follow the link to the article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-top-priorities-should-you-have-hugo #projectmanagement#changemanagement#portfolio#strategyexecution

Doctor Book Scheme – Vitamin B12 deficiency in clinical practice

In order to promote the Doctor Book Scheme, I’ve put the following up on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enough-energy-get-through-day-announcing-doctor-book-hugo/?published=t Vitamin B12 deficiency is widespread, but too many people don’t recognise it and it isn’t getting diagnosed or treated. The B12d charity is offering to send copies of the book for free to any doctor or nurse in UK… Continue reading Doctor Book Scheme – Vitamin B12 deficiency in clinical practice

Business intelligence – or business stupidity?

Artificial Intelligence – AI to its friends – is touted as the answer to everything. Technology has always been seen as a “quick fix”. I can remember colleagues recording lectures on tape recorders, claiming they would “listen to them later”. Of course they never did, but there was the comfort blanket of knowing that you… Continue reading Business intelligence – or business stupidity?

Procuring for Benefits and Value – what happens

There are many situations where it’s better to work together, and the individual specific interest groups within a professional association are no exception. Association for Project Management (APM – the Chartered body for the Project Management Profession) has 12 Specific Interest Groups, and two, Contracts & Procurement and Benefits & Value, worked closely to deliver… Continue reading Procuring for Benefits and Value – what happens

APM Body of Knowledge v7 – First Impressions

The Association for Project Management (APM)’s new Body of Knowledge published on 2 May 2019 is an exciting development.  On one hand, it’s much more readable than previous Body of Knowledge’s.  On the other, it’s no longer designed to dip into – it’s a “read start-to-finish” kind of document. Purchase from: https://www.apm.org.uk/book-shop/apm-body-of-knowledge-7th-edition/ (permission APM) Is… Continue reading APM Body of Knowledge v7 – First Impressions

Complementary Disciplines: Communication and Benefits

Sharp-eyed readers may notice that I specialise in creating Value, through benefits. This means creating improvement in individuals, in organisations, and in projects. I don’t think it’s a secret that all improvement requires change. But not all change leads to improvement. Making change happen is, however, vital. Making change happen requires communication. Here’s a blog… Continue reading Complementary Disciplines: Communication and Benefits

An Age of Benefits and Value Management?

Project Management is an ancient profession – we can certainly trace it over 1,000 years, although project managers would have been called “Administrators”, or “Architects”. Project Management as a discipline goes back at least 100 years, as does the Iron Triangle. I argue on the APM (Association for Project Management) website https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/an-age-of-benefits-and-value-management/ that Project Management… Continue reading An Age of Benefits and Value Management?

Procurement for Benefits and Value

When you are contracting to buy, what are you hoping to buy? The specific thing you asked for? Or would you like a bit of innovation? And how can you help your prospective suppliers to innovate in ways that add value? Ideally, you need a way to tell your prospective suppliers what the solution Must… Continue reading Procurement for Benefits and Value

A guide to using a benefits management framework

Description “Very few people have experience of creating benefits management frameworks at an organisational level from scratch. This guide is written by people who do…” Dr Hugo Minney and Sarah Parris, with the APM Benefits and Value SIG, explain the process of creating and embedding a benefits framework in an organisation. In doing so they show… Continue reading A guide to using a benefits management framework