May 29, 2016

When in high school I first heard about a cost-benefit analysis, it made a lot of sense to me that every investment (i.e. cost) made by a person or organization is expected to generate some type of return (i.e. benefit). That was probably the first time when I understood benefits in a logical and mathematical

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August 24, 2015

I recently experienced an award-winning project manager summarising my presentation about Benefits Realisation Management and Project Success at the PMI Global Congress EMEA (May/2015) in a way that is probably better than I would do. Elizabeth Harrin has cleverly split the first half of my presentation into 4 parts, which in my view has made

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December 7, 2014

A colleague of mine recently commented to me about the challenge of creating a management plan for a large group of stakeholders. I found this a very interesting situation, so I decided to share my suggestion here on this blog, because others may have the same question in mind. A stakeholder management plan combines various

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September 1, 2014

Benefits Realisation Management (also known as Project Benefits Management or Benefits Management) has been under the spotlights in the Project Management community in these last years. The ‘new’ discipline has been increasingly studied and employed by organisations and practitioners as a set of processes which can ensure the execution of business strategies and creation of

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August 10, 2014

As discussed in our previous post, projects and programmes have been employed for thousands of years to manage the execution of business strategies. More recently, perhaps in the last half century these have been increasingly recognised as the best way to do that. With greater relevance, new techniques are constantly being created and new areas

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