‘Management by process’ – the project manager’s comfort zone?
At CITI Limited we have consistently warned against a process-dominated approach to projects. We challenge project managers to think more broadly about the skills and approach they need to be…
Project Challenge 2014 – Success Stories Shared
You can download the presentation and summary of the talk given by Christopher Worsley (CEO CITI) at the Project Challenge Conference on 14th October 2014 if you were unable to…
What lessons can the Private sector learn from the Public sector about Innovation and Change?
Innovation has become the new “buzz word” and desired state for organisations in both the private and the public sector. The term “innovation” has been used and, sometimes, overused by…
White elephants
I recently had an interesting conversation with Paul Ashton, our Head of IT, who wanted to know why many IT projects ended up as expensive ‘white elephants’, wasting prodigious amounts…
Centres of Excellence – a sound philosophy?
Dating back to the mid-nineties the UK Government essentially ‘led the charge’ in setting a trend of establishing corporate centres of excellence (COE) in the discipline of project, programme and…
Flood responses – Business as usual, project, or something bigger?
The visit of the Environment Secretary to the flooded areas of the Somerset levels is a response to the duration and extent of the flooding. The flooding started before Christmas…
Getting to grips with Agile project management
Agile1 has gone mainstream. It is no longer the preserve of a self-selected group of devotees, but is now being discussed, and implemented, by CIOs and Change Directors in major…
12 reasons for a product centred view of change
Product based planning and product centred approaches sit at the heart of nearly all modern project management methodologies; but why? Here is a ‘whistle-stop’ tour of twelve good reasons: The…
Three important change boundaries
All organisations work within boundaries; limits of authority, legal statute, societal norms and physical environment. They are a completely normal, often invisible, part of everyday life. Organisations deliberately create boundaries…
Are we becoming more anarchic when leading change?
On the whole anarchism has a bad press, but I would like to suggest it has an explanation for the shift in leadership as we have progressed from getting the…