Many of us don’t like like looking at organisational and project culture because we believe it’s hard to understand, not clear why it’s important, and, well, touchy-feely. Actually it’s the other way round: it’s pretty easy to spot and start to understand if you just look at the reality of the organisation around you: who [...] Read more – ‘What’s culture got to do with projects? There’s a question with a hard answer’.
You’ve probably heard the advice that the first step in solving a problem is to define it clearly. But therein lies a risk: the way you define a problem may limit where you look for a solution. A classic example of this comes from architecture: ask someone to design a door and that’s what you’ll [...] Read more – ‘Time to Resist ‘Resistance to Change’?’.
August seems an apt time to introduce one of the most useful wild cards in the ‘Getting Change Projects Done’ toolkit. Some years ago I was involved in a major project that had serious complications, and I was amazed when the director in charge suddenly took the afternoon off and went to the cinema. But, [...] Read more – ‘Why don’t you give yourself a break?’.
Despite ever more sophisticated Project and Change Management techniques around 80% of projects still fail – they don’t meet immediate cost, time and quality targets, don’t deliver longer-term benefits or changes just don’t stick. Generative Project Management pulls together experience of what does work, based on the simple premise that the way you go about [...] Read more – ‘Generative Project Management’.
In recent years we’ve seen important changes in the relationship between clients and consultants. From traditional “write a report” style consulting, interventions are now likely to be all-embracing in terms of issues and participation, dealing with both personal and business issues, integrating a range of approaches, and flexible rather than rigid. Read more – ‘Creating Space for Organizational Change’.
