Tag: risk management

  • How great project management leads to a great sales cycle

    How great project management leads to a great sales cycle

    Sales pursuits are projects before the project itself. Successful bids demand planning, stakeholder management, qualification discipline and cross-functional coordination. Project managers bring rigour, challenge assumptions and create order from complexity, helping organisations pursue the right opportunities and deliver compelling responses.

  • Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution

    Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution

    The French Revolution is often remembered through dramatic imagery: crowds storming the Bastille, revolutionary tribunals, and the ominous fall of the guillotine. Yet beneath the spectacle lies one of history’s most profound case studies in failed governance, uncontrolled change, and catastrophic decision making.

  • Project managers, are you checking your critical success factors?

    Project managers, are you checking your critical success factors?

    We do not lack lists of Critical Success Factors. What we lack is evidence that we are actively managing them. The fundamentals identified more than two decades ago still hold — leadership, capability, alignment, clarity, and execution. But their weighting has shifted. Change management, stakeholder alignment, and data readiness now exert far greater influence on…