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Where Information Management ends and Knowledge Management begins – an extract

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By Elisabeth Goodman This blog is a summary of my presentation at the APM KSIG event in Birmingham on 14th May 2013.  A fuller write-up, including my and Martin Fisher’s notes on the highlights from the discussion will shortly be available on the APM website. Every project management input and output involves both information and …

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Preparing new managers to be effective coaches

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Guest blog by Sean Conrad, Halogen Software Note from the Editor, Elisabeth Goodman Every now and then, people approach me (or I approach them) with a suggestion for a guest blog.  Anything that can bring insights for helping teams, or team leaders to work more effectively is potentially of interest.  What I like about this …

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Coaching applied to project management – APM seminar (#APMEoE)

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By Elisabeth Goodman Managing, coaching, mentoring, training, consulting, counseling: these are all terms that may or may not be part of a team and project manager’s toolkit.  How are they different?  And how can coaching in particular be applied in project management? About 25 practicing project managers and others interested in the topic gathered near …

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The Future of Project Management – an evening with Paul Major

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The Eastern Branch of the APM held a very enjoyable evening seminar on the future of project management with Paul Major (@changemakerPM, http://paulmajor.wordpress.com) on Wednesday 7th November. I captured Paul’s main points, and the course of the discussion in a series of tweets, which I’ve reproduced here with some additional notes. Shifted from delivering transformational change …

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The needs of globally dispersed, innovative, teams

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In our August 2012 RiverRhee Consulting newsletter, my Associates and I wrote about our insights on working in virtual teams, so it was with some interest that I read about “10 rules for managing global innovation” in the October issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR)1. After all, that’s what most ‘virtual’, ‘dispersed’ or ‘far flung’ …

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Getting it right rather than ‘firefighting’…unless that’s your job!

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By Elisabeth Goodman Being a ‘farmer’ not a ‘firefighter’ Some years ago when I was first learning about Lean and Six Sigma, a colleague shared an article he’d found comparing farmers and firefighters. People in organisations are often singled out when they have worked all hours to deal with a crisis, and yet the people …

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Making Knowledge Work – Beyond Lessons Learned – Notes from APM #KSIGDDAY

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APM prospective Knowledge SIG Conference – 5th July 2012 Based on the @ecgoodman twitter stream tagged with #KSIGDDAY @APMProjectMgmt #KM Meeting kicking off – looking forward to it! The meeting started with some speed networking in which I met lots of great people from all sectors of work, the UK, sizes of organisation, and levels …

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Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) a personal case study culminating in an aborted transatlantic flight

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I have just spent a very comfortable night in a Heathrow hotel, after a 5 hour round trip spent in the air somewhere between London and Boston.  Although eating airline food, watching a (not very good) movie, and having a doze mid-air might be one way to spend an afternoon in May, it would not …

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Lessons Learned – notes from an APM web briefing

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By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell, RiverRhee Consulting (Preview of a blog to appear on the APM website) A recent discussion thread on the APM (Association for Project Management) website focussed on the potential value of Lessons Learned and the failure modes that generally occur.  We have edited the points made in the discussion thread into …

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Lean Six Sigma and Project Management – triangles and (virtuous) circles

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By Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell On 6th July, we held a very enjoyable second iteration of our APM workshop on this topic in Norwich, having run it previously in Stevenage in May. As with the previous seminar, our audience ranged from people and organisations with very limited knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma, to …

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