Helping transport professionals fast track their success
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
Much of a professional’s day-to-day work involves delivering projects. When you think of project management, many people tend to picture teams in large organisations working on large-scale projects. Many of your smaller tasks are actually projects as well. It can be disastrous to mistake a project for regular work. According to the Project Management Institute … Read more
So, you want to get your projects delivered more efficiently and effectively? Here is the first step toward achieving that goal. Understand the keys to success in delivering results. Most professionals are managing projects covertly – and doing so by the seat of their pants! Between 60-80 per cent of a professional’s time is project … Read more
Delivering major transport projects is very challenging – with long planning horizons, complex interfaces, multiple stakeholders and the potential for major scope changes. Poor project management results in overruns and delays, poor quality outputs, and higher costs. There is increasing pressure for well-planned and delivered transport projects that meet agreed time, cost and quality requirements. … Read more
Successful project management use DICE factors to beat the odds. Ask four different project managers what are the critical factors of successful delivered projects and you will probably get four different answers. This is because they each would have different lessons learned from their own experience. Extensive research by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found … Read more
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg in his research identified two main causes of misinformation in policy and management: strategic misrepresentation (or lying!) and optimism bias (appraisal optimism). Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact in response to incentives in the budget process. Optimism bias is the demonstrated systematic tendency for people to be … Read more