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Human Systems experts are committed to furthering the development and success of their member organisations. They are themselves leaders in directing current thinking within the project management profession and many are highly respected authors on the subject.
Here we give you the opportunity to read some of their articles and papers.
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Interactivity - The End of Passive Learning
Project magazine November 2007 |
Human Systems Executive Chairman Terry Cooke-Davies chaired the conference panel for this first APM Conference. He reflects on two days of a professional activity event that has helped to shape the future of project management in the coming years. |
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Sharing data is the answer to pm success
PMT March 2007 |
Terry Cooke-Davies set up his world-wide Networks for companies to safely share data on their successes and failures in projects and programmes, so that he could provide real benchmarks against which they could improve their practices. As a successful entrepreneur and businessman he recognises the need to learn from real experience, and he describes project management as an area of management where ‘yesterday is not a reliable guide for tomorrow’. |
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Catching the network bug
PMT March 2005 |
Networking is an excellent way of increasing your knowledge, but how can you share the company’s more sensitive information? |
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Execution's best kept secret!
Project Management EuropeanCEO |
Brian Trefty and Tony Teague examine "The impact of improved project delivery on the bottom line . . ." |
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Doing the right projects consistently
PMT March 2005 |
Part 2 - Tony Teague completes his mini series with ways of choosing the right projects and doing them correctly . . . |
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The gulf between strategy, project & reality
PMT February 2005 |
Part 1 of this two part mini-series where Tony Teague looks at the reason why there is a gulf between those who plan strategy and those who deliver . . . |
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| Which Organizational PM Capabilities Matter Most in the Drive for Competitive Advantage? |
Tony Teague to APM Conference 2007 |
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| New Ways of Thinking about Projects |
Dr Terry Cooke-Davies to PMI London Chapter |
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| Making the Most of Metrics |
Tony Teague to APM East of England Branch |
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| The Executive Sponsor – The Hinge upon which Organizational Project Management Maturity Turns? |
This paper from Terry Cooke-Davies will argue, however, that the real benefits of maturity show through in terms of improved project success measured at three levels: project management efficiency (doing projects right); project effectiveness (doing the right projects); and organisational agility (consistently doing the right projects, and doing them right). |
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| Measurement of Organizational Maturity: |
In this paper Terry Cooke-Davies considers:-
What Are the Relevant Questions about Maturity and Metrics for a Project-based Organization to Ask, and What Do These Imply for Project Management Research? |
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Consistently Doing the Right Projects and Doing Them Right
– What Metrics Do You Need? |
A paper from Terry Cooke-Davies that provides a research-based answer to the question, “What are the characteristics of a suite of project management metrics that is capable of supporting an organization’s efforts to improve project success?” |
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| Case Studies |
| Human Systems assists Department of Health Transformation Programme |
When the Department of Health initiated a radical change programme, they knew that finding high quality external consultants to provide an objective third-party view would be the key to success. A rare combination of expertise across the science and the art of project management would be needed, combined with the very best facilitation skills to ensure that every perspective was considered.
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| Human Systems helps DWP become
‘exemplar government department' |
“In a traditional
consultancy situation, the client only benefits from the supplier’s
consultants themselves. Human Systems can genuinely offer experts on
specific issues from across the globe and these experts are happy to spend
the time with other members to help them improve.”
Ian Anderson, DWP
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| Human
Systems is valuable springboard for Ericsson’s project management
success |
Today,
Human Systems and Ericsson are working so closely together to maintain
project management excellence throughout the Ericsson Group, that they
operate as one team. Human Systems’ benchmarking tools and improvement
methods are now an intrinsic part of Ericsson’s global approach
and are an essential element of the company’s continuing customer
order delivery success. Read
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