I attended a Webinar on Project Management a few weeks ago when the facilitator, who is a Project Manager and a Civil Engineer by training, said “Project Managers deliver business solutions whilst change managers ensure that the solutions deliver business results”. He certainly captured my attention because I was expecting a dry, technical discussion on […]
In the past, Change Management was often seen as a ‘nice-to-have’ addition to project management. Over time though, it has come to be recognised as a strategic, equal and vital partner to Project Management in enabling a project’s success. Not only are both roles required to enable a project to achieve the business case, but […]
The disciplines of change management and project management in specific have become the backbone of how organisations introduce a new and better way of order. Whether implementing new technology, merging or acquiring businesses, reengineering business processes or completely changing a business model; project management provides the structure, tools and processes to ensure the initiative is […]
The roles of Change and Project Management are inextricably entwined in the project and programme arena. One cannot exist in isolation from the other and indeed feed into one another in terms of project and programme delivery. Project management tends to place more emphasis on rational factors while change management seeks to compliment this by […]
These two models have traditionally not been all that connected. Project Managers, in general, have an understanding of the people component but do they fully appreciate that it is the very key element of ensuring the successful delivery of their initiative? Project Management through its very nature implies that some form of change will take […]
