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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]