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Certified Construction Manager (CCM)
Earning a certificate in construction management, and thus earning the title “Certified Construction Manager” (CCM), will establish your expertise in this position. CCM is considered one of the highest standards in this profession, and is the only CM certification that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute. Approximately 2,000 individuals hold this certification in
Change Management Leadership Qualities – The Renewable Leader
Harvard professor, and change leadership and management thought leader, John Kotter defines an adaptive organisation as one where there is a strong receptivity to change and innovation, where risk taking is encouraged, and where people are pro-active and supportive of each other both in their work and personal lives. Perhaps most importantly he highlights the
What is the Importance of Change Management in Your Organisation?
Change management is one of the most important disciplines of Information Technology Infrastructure management. The Wikipedia defines change management as “The objective of Change Management in this context is to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of all changes to controlled IT infrastructure, in order to minimise the
How to Improve the Shipping and Receiving Methods of Your Manufacturing Firm
Why shipping and receiving affects the entire process A recent idea that reduced product weight by 60%, cut fuel bills and cut tyre costs down by 6%. With a fleet of over 100 vehicles, this is just one small project idea out of five to emerge from a program of high impact change management. Internal
Start Building Your CMDB
Where should you start when building your CMDB? Many consultants and vendors suggest purchasing a tool before beginning the building of the CMDB.However, this is unnecessary since most IT organizations have very little idea, from the outset, about exactly what type of information will eventually wind up in the database(s). To start, an Excel spreadsheet
What Is Organizational Transformation and Should You Transform?
In a world of increasing customer expectations and decreasing resources, many organizations are finding ways to do more with less by consolidating and integrating departments, functions, business processes, IT infrastructure, and entire organizations. But 75 years of research on organizations has shown that over 85% of all organizational performance problems are in the structures, systems,
ADKAR Change Model – An Evaluation of Its Strengths and Weaknesses
The ADKAR change model was first published by Prosci in 1998. Prosci is the recognised leader in business process design and change management research, and is the world’s largest provider of change management and reengineering toolkits and benchmarking information. Prosci’s own research shows that problems with the people dimension of change is the most commonly
BPO Partnership: A Viable Change Management Strategy
How do you transform an ailing company? In the reports made by TPI Prevalence Database, about a hundred firms have set up multidimensional Human Resources to establish strong outsourcing connections. The said database purports to trace how big organizations experiencing difficulties utilize different HR functions to forge outsourcing partnerships and cut on costs and retain
ITIL Change Management – Some Basics
If we are searching for a concise definition of ‘change’ – in conformity with the ITIL Change Management principles- then here it is. It means addition, modification or removal – which can be termed as de-registration -of an authorized ( or base-lined), planned and supported configuration item/service or service component and associated elements or documents.
Ten Guidelines For Managers Who Want to Create Culture Change
A common perception is that cultural change has to start at the very top of an organization. But studies and field experience have shown that culture change can begin with the sub-culture of a work-group where a manager who is one or two levels down from senior management decides to become an island of excellence
Change Management – Prevent Failure by Dissolving Resistance
People don’t like to change. In fact they react badly and sometimes destructively when forced to change. Statistics tell us that 70% of change strategies within organizations fail to provide the desired outcome and often cause a great deal of discontent. It is interesting to note that this also applies to large scale organizations, such
Master Business Agility Now Or Face The Consequences Of Business As Usual
Business Agility, a trend or the key to your future? Hold on to your hats. If you think the rate of change was intense over the last 20 years you ain’t seen nothing yet! There are large, mega trends now underway that will wash distracted decision makers overboard, no matter how luxurious your corporate yacht
New Uses For Diamond Drilling in the Construction Industry
Traditionally, diamond drilling has been used in the construction industry to form different size holes and openings in concrete and brickwork structures. The process is considered an accurate and cost-effective alternative to cruder techniques such as bursting which often require reinstatement work after any openings are formed. The diamond drilling of smaller size holes, from
People Management – The Objectives in Managing People
The new Manager will generally have great expertise in the technical side of the role, and high performance here will have gained them the promotion to people manager or supervisor. However, in every walk of life the newly appointed supervisor will have less developed people management, communication and people skills. Whether the work is in
12 Essential Soft Skills for Project Managers
Soft skills are undoubtedly needed by Project Managers. Across the Project Management profession there is debate about what these skills are and how they should be measured. Generally speaking soft skills are the skills an individual has in relation to their Emotional Intelligence Quotient, their ‘EQ’. These cover a breadth of skills including communications, interpersonal
Strapping Machines and Their Role in the Construction Industry
Strapping machines are frequently used in warehouse environments to strap together items that are being shipped to another location. The purpose is to prevent the shipped items from coming loose from their shipping pallets and becoming damaged. There is also the fact that strapping machines strap together materials so that they don’t fall over and
Coping with Poorly Planned Change
So, you are sponsoring or have been given a new initiative, organizational change, or system/application roll out that you need to implement in your organization. You know that the new system will create disruption, but you are not sure how much. You also know from listening to other colleagues that a change management process will
Project Quality Management
Good project quality management techniques are important to ensure that a project delivers and end results meet or exceed the customer’s expectations. It is important to monitor the project continuously to prevent errors and misinterpretations. “Quality” refers to the ability of a process, or product to satisfy both stated and implied needs, with these needs
CMM and Project Management – Scope Management
The PMBOK refers to the business of managing the requirements of a project as Scope Management while SEI refers to it as Requirements Management. This is partly because the SEI narrows its focus on the software requirements of the system or application being built while the PMBOK uses the term Scope to refer to all
Ten Parameters of Good Corporate Culture
Sometime in the 1980s, I read a book written by Manfred Kets de Vries who claimed to have found six types of corporate cultures. The most intriguing thesis of the book was that actually most organizations are not sick, but not entirely healthy: the so-called lingering organizations. The other five types of organizations are: the
Dealing With Change and Innovation in the Workplace
Making changes means ‘making or becoming different’ – you are either introducing something new, or altering something that already exists. Changing something means you are leaving your comfort zone. You are used to doing things a certain way and for certain reasons and when this changes you tend to resist, saying ‘but we’ve always done