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Ceo plan to increase head count
Leadership & Thinking20 Oct 2026

89% of CEOs expect to increase their workforce over the next three years

KPMGs 2026 US CEO Outlook, which surveyed 400 CEOs of large American companies.

project data migration
Leadership & Thinking19 Oct 2026

When an organisation retires a project management platform

When an organisation retires a project management platform

Azure migration
Leadership & Thinking17 Oct 2026

Bank migrated its core systems to the cloud

A bank migrated its core systems to the cloud, maintained 100% uptime during the transition and reduced the time needed to launch new products by approximately 80%.

wondering why
Delivery & Execution16 Oct 2026

A project can be delivered exactly as promised and still leave the management wondering

Consider an organisation that invests in a new customer service platform to reduce response times and operating costs. The system goes live on schedule, the budget is controlled, and all agreed deliverables...

One resource
Delivery & Execution11 Oct 2026

Having people assigned to every project does not mean an organization has the capacity to deliver them all

I think one of the mistakes organisations make when planning projects is confusing resource allocation with actual resource availability. A project gets approved, names are assigned to different roles...

decision making
Delivery & Execution09 Oct 2026

Project is not behind schedule because the team is struggling

I think this is an aspect of project delivery that deserves more attention, particularly when project managers are held accountable for delays caused by decisions outside their authority...

team accountabilities
Delivery & Execution05 Oct 2026

Project can have someone accountable for each task, without anyone accountable for what happens between teams

I think this is one of the less obvious problems in project and programme delivery, especially in organisations running multiple interconnected initiatives...