Live the Brand – Coca Cola’s journey on driving people, passion, happiness and performance
by Mihaly
This is exciting. The second day’s opening keynote is Stevens J Saint-Rose, Coca Cola’s International SVP of HR at the Human Asset Summit in Budapest. What is Coca Cola International? Basically every country outside United States – yes, folks in the...
Binding PMI and Agile Approaches: Interview with Mike Griffiths
by Norbert B
The PMBOK Guide 5th edition is the first time we see the word “Agile” mentioned at all, it was not in any previous versions. Agile lifecycles get introduced in chapter 2 where project lifecycles are described. Then, in Chapter 4 it is referenced...
Introducing Agile into the Organization – Achieving Culture Change an Interview with Tatiana Pastukhova and Bartosz Kiera
by Norbert B
The greatest challenge was to move everyone away from thinking in terms of process. People love familiarity and tend to set rules for themselves - when crossed, it gives them a feeling of failure and disappointment. The same applies to methodologies...
Creating High-Performing Project Teams An Interview with Paul Walvik-Joynt
by Norbert B
High performing teams take time in forming the team, all individuals know why they are there, they spend time on building trust and understanding what each team member brings to the team strengths and weaknesses. And they are very keen on...
State of the Risk Industry - How Far Have We Come? by Robert Stroud
by Norbert B
We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Robert Stroud, VP CA Technologies and Council Member at ISACA. He drew our attention to a blogpost series he wrote in March 2011 ‘Six Predictions for CIOs in 2011’. We found it extremely interesting...
Just as a project is not for life, ‘A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result’ (we all know the PMBoK3 definition I am sure), and a program is not for life either, ‘A program is a group of related...
Understanding Risk Types for effective decision-making by Grace Walsh & Geoff Trickey
by Norbert B
This survey was conducted in conjunction with the Institute of Risk Management. The aim of this research was to identify any systematic patterns in the natural disposition towards risk-taking of the sample, classifying each participant according to...
Proactively Driving an Enterprise wide approach to Risk Management an Interview Bryan Barrow
by Norbert B
Running a business is a risky endevour. Uncertainties and opportunities cannot be treated in silos anymore but organizations must offer a unified, enterprise wide approach to managing risk or capitalizing on opportunities. Unfortunately a study by...
The Difference Between Strategic Portfolio, Programme and Project Risk by Dr. David Hancock
by Norbert B
There is a feeling amongst some risk practitioners, myself included, that theoretical risk management has strayed from our intuition of the world of management. Historically, risk management has developed from the numerical disciplines dominated by...
Achieving Sales Excellence: Managing Strategic Change an Interview with Christian De Loes
by Norbert B
In my opinion there are three key cornerstones to build an effective sales force. One of these cornerstones is to put in place an Accounts structure to cover the desired geographical territory. With proper market intelligence the sales force should...