APMG-International Blog - Learning Trends for Professional Managers

Information Management – the Weakest Link in your IT Chain?

Jessica Wharton — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:03 +0000

Mark Smalley, IT Paradigmologist, ASL BiSL Foundation, will be running a session at this year’s APMG-International Showcase on 20th June in London focusing on effective information management. Most organizations have to cope with rapid and disruptive business change while utilizing evolving technology. This needs to be addressed from an end-to-end perspective, with close collaboration between [...]

Maasvlatke2 Achieves Level 5 Maturity Award

Kate Winter — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:09:29 +0000

Last month Alan Harpham our Chairman and Graham Bosman, one of our chief assessors, went out to Port of Rotterdam to present the Maasvlatke2 project team with a Level 5 Maturity Award. This is a fantastic achievement, the first award to be presented anywhere in the world. You can read our press release here or [...]

Gavin Esler at Showcase in June

Jessica Wharton — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:43 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Gavin Esler, Newsnight and Dateline London presenter, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s APMG-International Showcase in London. Gavin is an award winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. Having finished university, he started a job at The Scotsman in Edinburgh, moving then to The Belfast Telegraph [...]

BiSL Foundation Exam available all over the globe

Kate Winter — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:05:30 +0000

Business Information Management Within the complexity of today’s market, organizations simply cannot function without a fully functioning information provision, including technology (IT). The most critical elements are found in the alignment of IT and business processes. It is precisely this alignment that is often far from perfect. All over the world people are looking for [...]

Are your lessons learned being used?

Kate Winter — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:35:58 +0000

It’s all very well filing your lessons learned reports but is your organization taking note of them? During the project Start Up phase, project managers should look for Lessons Reports from previous projects and incorporate them in the Lessons Log for the new project. Tracking is a job for Project Assurance and this can be [...]

Better Skills, Better Business: The 2013 Canadian Showcase

Guest Authors — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:41:22 +0000

On 1st May, the Allstream Centre in Toronto played host to the second annual APMG-International North American Showcase. Over 150 attendees from cities such as Toronto, Ottawa, Raleigh, Calgary, Fredericton and Salt Lake City were in attendance and represented a variety of industries such as Federal, Provincial and Municipal government, Utilities, Banking and Insurance and [...]

Facilitation Methodology Endorsed

Bob Little — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:29 +0000

Using facilitation skills expounded by Tony Mann, of Resource Strategic Change and senior examiner on APMG-International’s facilitation skills certification scheme, with the senior team at Premier Foods’ Hovis plant in Avonmouth, has proved extremely powerful, believes the Site Manufacturing Manager, Gordon Swanston. According to Gordon: “Our ability to very quickly coalesce as a mature problem [...]

Cabinet Office & Capita issue first e-bulletin

Kate Winter — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:23:53 +0000

Cabinet Office and Capita have issued their first e-bulletin explaining their intentions for the Best Management Practice Portfolio. http://www.best-management-practice.com/gempdf/Best_Management_Practice_eBulletin_Issue_01.pdf Questions should be emailed to ask@swirlenquiries.com

The Need for Skills in Business Change Management

Guest Authors — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:00:50 +0000

Change is increasingly becoming business as usual for the majority of organizations. It is therefore important for organizations to develop capability to deliver change of ever increasing pace and complexity. Change requires people to perform multiple roles and acquire new knowledge and behaviours. Consultants can play a vital role, though over-reliance on consultants can bring [...]

Accreditation – Why it Matters

Jessica Wharton — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:47 +0000

Melanie Franklin, CEO of Maven Training tells us why accreditation matters and what it’s like to work with APMG. Why should people use accredited training organizations? I think the first thing about using an accredited training organization is that you know they have been externally validated. Somebody has come in and audited us as a [...]