Feb 14, 2023
Turning my “gut feeling” understanding of PPP and Project Finance into a proper hypothesis. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are still a very common financing mechanism for major programmes. However, most major programmes that use a PPP financing model do not include...
Nov 21, 2022
What major project leaders need to be equipped with for success in the fourth industrial revolution. Here’s the question: Are major project leaders and professionals equipped to support major project delivery in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)? Well, that...
Nov 6, 2022
Through my studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, I had the opportunity to hear Felix Reed-Tsochas’ approach to system thinking. One of the key takeaways from Felix Reed-Tsochas’ class was his explanation on the difference between complicated and...
Oct 14, 2022
And how julienning carrots made me stick it out in major programmes. In 2015, I was finishing up the most successful year of my career to date. A couple promotions, some big bids won—in theory, I should have been on cloud nine. Instead, I was Googling how to open a...
Sep 6, 2022
Project professionals have been trained to think of projects/programmes in terms of cost, time and quality but major programmes require more leadership and less management. Major Programmes are adaptive and complex temporary organizations, which require leadership...
Aug 19, 2022
This was learned 50 years ago–what are we doing? This week, I shared my peer, Kiri Parr’s post on the merit of the Max Abrahamson principle from his seminal paper. The post itself was excellent (hence why I repost it), but what really piqued my interest was...
