Category: Value add
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Better vendor management through program management
The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) defines vendor management (also known as supplier relationship management) as the process that “involves reviewing the portfolio of suppliers, categorising supply relationships by their significance, devoting resources in proportion to the relationship’s significance and managing processes between the parties torealise the relationship objectives.” Traditionally procurement is a…
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What program managers can learn from NASA
When people think of NASA, they tend to think of the moon landings and the enormous benefits mankind has received from the side effects of the space But there is another great benefit of NASA that you might not be aware of: better program and project management.
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How conflict can successfully be used to improve team performance …
Forming, storming, norming and performing is a well-known team building process. But can we harness the disruptive power of conflict to produce better outcomes for our business?
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Making meetings work for you and your project
I can remember very clearly the worst meeting I was ever involved in. A “flagship” municipal project with the potential to bring world admiration to a city. This new project needed new IT systems. So 44 of us sat in a room together — architects, engineers, program and project managers, business analysts, change managers,…
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