Fresh Look – Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. No organisation can successfully deliver programmes and projects without an effective framework and common lifecycle around which controls can be based. […]
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How much of your training budget is wasted?
Strange but true In 2011 the UK National Audit Office (NAO) reported that a lack of programme and project management skills was one of the major concerns for senior managers. In 2017 there is an estimate that the UK public sector is 4,000 short of the number needed to deliver Brexit. Our skills and capability […]
Fresh Look: Dependency Management
We thought it would be a good idea to revisit some of the guiding principles that underpin the world of portfolio, programme and project management. In a world of information overload it is very easy to lose sight of what matters. Dependency Management really is one of the Dark Arts. It about the interfaces between initiatives. […]
Great news – You can now use our eLearning from your mobile devices
We are excited to announce that our Aspire Academy eLearning portal now has its own Mobile app out of the box, due to a recent upgrade. With the Moodle Mobile (the official mobile app for Moodle) you can: Browse the content of your courses, even when offline Receive instant notifications of messages and other events […]
Project Challenge – eLearning discount offer
To celebrate the Programme and Project Management festival at Project Challenge we are making a very special offer on our eLearning products, of which we have over 200 hours available and covers all the major qualifications and more advanced products. On top of the TSO offer on our MSP Survival Guides offer on our books, […]
Fresh look – P3M v Corporate risk interfaces
Welcome to another one of our Fresh Look, these are a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. In this article we look at the dysfunctional relationship between and organisations corporate risk […]
Project Challenge – Driving Delivery Performance – changing ourselves
Aspire Europe will be presenting at Project Challenge next week, talking about the difficulties in delivering change and performance improvement to the P3M organisation. Presentation will be on at 12.15pm and is in collaboration with the APM Group. We will have representatives on the APM Group stand on both days so we hope that you […]
Adopting P3O – your questions answered
P3O® stands for Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices, it is the UK Government publication on how to set up an organisational environment in which there are a mix of these offices and how they should interact with each other. In this short video (from our partners at CC Learning in Brisbane) Elissa Farrow, a trainer […]
Case study – implementing a Change Advocates network
As regular blog watchers will know, Aspire Academy were involved in a TJ Awards short-listed change management training and development programme at Cheshire West and Chester Council. The Aspire Academy team who delivered the assignment were Robert Cole and David King. This video outlines how we designed and implemented an approach that pulled together a […]
Press Release: Aspire Europe acquire Rovsing Business Academy, Denmark
Bristol, 1st December. 0900 Aspire Europe Ltd are very pleased to announce the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Rovsing Business Academy, a Danish based training company offering Axelos and APM Group training courses. Anders Murmann has been appointed at as the CEO. Rod Sowden, Managing Director, Aspire Europe Ltd said “This is a really […]