Expert advice from industry leaders

Right now, every project manager’s risk register is filled with concerns about how their project team is managing – and maintaining consistency – throughout the current COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest concern in particular is the effect a remote-working environment is having on their projects. This ‘global pandemic risk’ is indeed unique. We’ve never encountered anything

Effective judgement – aka the ability to make good decisions – is something we acquire over time and is essential to our everyday lives, both personal and professional. It’s an important weapon in your arsenal during the ‘normal’ times, but it is particularly pertinent in times of crisis – such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.

With millions of Australians already feeling the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, you are probably wondering what this means for you and your organisation. And despite restrictions easing across the country, COVID-19 won’t be disappearing any time soon – which means it’s doubly important to use the time at our disposal to prepare for

The modern business environment demands that any organisation seeking to gain a competitive edge must first maximise its own value. Such value can come from a variety of sources – e.g. developing new products and services, adopting more efficient business models, entering new sectors – and depends entirely on your industry and market intentions. Whatever

The nature of modern work is always changing. It’s more global, more uncertain, more automated and more dependent on software. So for business leaders who want to leverage the power of strategic change, they need to investigate new trends and quantify their potential returns. We’ve scoured the market and uncovered three new trends in change

We are living in the new ‘virtual’ norm: virtual conferencing, virtual meetings, virtual happy hours. Even our children are virtual learning at the dining room table. Well before the current coronavirus pandemic, Australian employers were encouraging their teams to take a flexible approach to their work – for the benefit of staff wellbeing, as well

There’s a line in Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind that is more poignant today than ever: “In order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order.” Everywhere we look right now, the order of things is changing. Is that a challenging or even frightening realisation?

From voice activated devices to collision-avoidance in cars, there is artificial intelligence at work everywhere you look. The world we know is changing and we are all being challenged to adapt structures and working practices to the new realities. “AI” is making a major impact and transforming the field of project management which is helping

A core component of successful project management is the ability to manage uncertainty throughout the life of a project. Risk Management seeks to support decision-making through an informed understanding of risks and their likely impact. A risk (whether favourable or negative) is an uncertain event which, if it occurs, affects the achievement of project objectives. Consider the

The past few weeks have seen some rapid and unprecedented changes in the way we are living, travelling and working, and by all accounts we should expect that the worst is yet to come with this crisis likely to stretch out for many months. The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused many of us to question