No organisation can successfully deliver programmes and projects without an effective framework and common lifecycle around which controls can be based. Our maturity and capability assessment of over 120 organisations enabled us to review a wide range of processes, guidance and tools that are used across a range of sectors. We found: Incomplete frameworks with […]
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Portfolio offices play a key role in strategy delivery – Forrester research
In this article by Forrester Consulting, they have written an excellent paper on how strategic PMOs play a key role in increasing an organisations ability to deliver the right projects in the right way, thus improving organisational performance and agility. It includes an interesting section about the triggers for PMOs taking on this strategic relevance, […]
Wasting money on training – what can we do to help?
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 […]
Ever wondered how you become a thought leading company?
Anyone can claim to be at the leading edge of the industry or a thought leader, but not many people back themselves and go into print as authors, even fewer get the backing of one of the world’s leading publishing companies such as The TSO. Why not check out some of the books that we […]
Eileen Roden accepts a non executive director role at the Aspire Academy
Aspire Europe are pleased to announce that Eileen Roden has accepted a non executive director role at the Aspire Academy. Rod Sowden, Managing Director, Aspire Europe said “We are very pleased that Eileen has accepted the non executive role on our board. We have had a close relationship with Eileen since her PMP days and […]
Why is learning from failure so difficult?
One of the great mysteries is why is it we keep making the same mistakes or doing blindingly stupid things. The P3M industry is just a reflection of wider society, as programmes and projects fail repeatedly for the same reasons, yet each time it seems to come as a complete surprise. TSO asked Aspire Europe […]
P3M3® at the United Nations
We would like to share with you an interesting case study about the use of P3M3® at the United Nations. As an operational arm of the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps partners deliver around $1 billion worth of aid and development projects every year. The UNOPS mission is […]
Implementing P3O® – Latte experience of portfolio, program and project offices
In this short vodcast (from our partners at CC Learning in Brisbane) Elissa Farrow, a trainer at CC Learning, talks about Implementing P3O® within an organisation. Specifically she discusses the hub and spoke model of Portfolio, program and project offices. We hope you find it useful! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbv3mpe-uhc] P3O® is a [registered] trade mark of […]
Aspire Europe Global Customer Base
“Small enough to care, big enough to cope” Since developing our own set of eLearning courses in 2014, our users have grown and in that time also spread far and wide. Below shows a selection of our 800+ users and where in the world they’re located. [googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1AXTZtcEOqSZweGYTTARJd_NxHNo&w=640&h=480]
5 key principles of MoP® – Latte experience of Management of Portfolios
Here is an excellent vodcast about the 5 key principles of MoP® from our partners in Australia, CC Learning. Hope you enjoy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkNHow0diZk]