Helping transport professionals fast track their success
Phil Charles
Effective delivery requires carefully designing the approach to deliver a solution to address transport challenges. This includes consultation, coordination, and subsequently evaluating the results achieved. Transport projects fail because they either experience program failure, which means could not be implemented as designed, or theory failure that is executed as designed but did not produce the desired result. The focus … Read more
Our cities are shaped by where people live, work, learn, shop and play and how they travel around. This is important because ABS indicate that 71% of Australians live in major cities. Integrating land use and transport is vital to sustaining the economy, social interaction and minimising the impact on the environment. On the other … Read more
‘Historically, infrastructure planning has sought to project future conditions as an extension of today, then provided infrastructure to meet anticipated demand. In 2021 and beyond, the approach must be more robust.’ Infrastructure Australia. 2021. Reforms to meet Australia’s future infrastructure needs, p5 Putting the customer first is top priority for transport agencies. This requires improving … Read more
Most professionals struggle with strategy. They know that strategy is important in order to deliver the results, but consider it is senior management’s responsibility. However, all projects and plans should start with strategy – the why. Before getting into the what, how, who and when, you first need to be clear on the why. What is … Read more
Getting a decision is the culmination of the long process of preparing a business case Getting agreement to your recommendation is the definition of success. But it isn’t just about giving the decision-maker what they want but requires that you accurately read what they need and value, their interests and priorities and then make sure … Read more
Most business case fall short when generating a long list of options. Let us consider this issue from three perspectives. Firstly clarify the problem or opportunity. Business Cases are often constrained by what I call ‘in the box’ thinking. The constraints include funding availability, political and community expectations, published strategies or plans, or constrained by … Read more
A cohort based course is an online course where a group (cohort) of students learn at the same time, usually over a fixed period, with a mix of online materials (watch videos, read text etc), live classes with an instructor and peer group collaboration and projects. What have been the phases of online learning? The … Read more
Successfully completing a business case requires establishing a robust baseline – there are three elements to consider: the base case assumptions underlying the demand forecasts treatment of risk and uncertainty The Base Case Project evaluations compare the costs and benefits of doing something, or the project case, with not doing it, or the base case. … Read more
Execution requires behavioural change, which is one of the hardest things to generate. The greatest enemy of change is the day-to-day activities just to keep things running. The urgent but not important. Delivery involves translating planning and thinking to execution and involves two levels – ‘what’ has to be achieved and ‘how’ to achieve the … Read more
How does your project contribute to delivering the strategic outcomes, the desired results? In this short video I explain how to align your project to desired outcomes using a LogFrame or Logical Framework Analysis. In your experience: How often are projects properly aligned with desired outcomes? – post your comments