Useful Resources and Articles
Why you should profile your customers
11 April 2014
5 top tips for better everyday focus
14 March 2014
All I need is another day in the week!
6 March 2014
Focus on your process more than your goals
14 February 2014
Don't let fear and self-doubt stop you from business progress
07 February 2014
Forming good habits will increase your customers
01 February 2014
Ten steps to more customers in 2014
13 January 2014
Meetings cost more and achieve less: research findings
27 November 2013
How much money is wasted in meetings?
4 November 2013
Does it pay to share knowledge?
1 October 2013
Ten common software implementation mistakes and how to avoid making them
16 August 2013
Do meetings in your business equate to lots of procrastination and no outputs?
03 August 2013
How can companies benefit from not making repeated mistakes?
10 June 2013
Top tips to ensure meeting, project review or away day success
09 June 2013
Can the wider organisation benefit from learning lessons?
08 June 2013
Actions speak just as loudly as lessons
30 April 2013
Action-Fraction explores whether project based businesses are falling short at just identifying lessons and having them ‘filed away’ somewhere, never to be looked at again. Or do the lessons result in an action that is carried out and embedded in the entire organisational process?
Action-Fraction provides a book review: Post-Project Reviews to Gain Effective Lessons Learned
3 April 2013
In Post-Project Reviews to Gain Effective Lessons Learned, there is a significant amount of detailed research into the concepts and understanding of how organisations learn lessons from projects they have undertaken. Taking the results of a survey of literature on the use of lessons learned, Terry Williams looks at the motivation for learning lessons, the concepts of knowledge and learning, the current learning lessons situation, factors that facilitate or hinder the creation of knowledge and the transfer of knowledge and lessons in organisations...
Involve the client on project reviews
19 March 2013
Talk to the vast majority of businesses involved in client delivery programmes about how they conduct their post project reviews and they will largely be done internally with the central team from the project. This may consist of a senior manager, the project managers and some of the team involved in the projects implementation. Occasionally, you may get the odd supplier or contractors involved also...
Daily Telegraph to report on Project Management
14 March 2013
The Customer Perspective
12 March 2013
Infrastructure works and developments of all kinds usually affect the end consumer somewhere along the line. We may be looking at general disruption caused from the works; mess, noise, muddy roads, increased traffic or we may be looking at more serious disruption that affects supply of services. Either way, these disruptions can cause ill feeling towards the providers and suppliers on the project and worse, bad press from complaints...
Project Management Mistakes
7 March 2013
Mistakes do happen, it is a fact of life and without these mistakes there would be no requirement for learning lessons from them. But there are many simple mistakes that can be avoided, whether that is at the planning stage, during management of the project, at communication level or fundamentals such as time projections...
Defining Roles and Responsibilities
5 March
2013
Learning lessons in construction
28 February 2013
Results or just long hours of work?
25 February 2013
Revolving Project Management Improvements
22 February 2013
Who makes a good project reviewer?
18 February 2013
Exploring what skills and qualities are needed from the right project reviewer.
Barriers to learning lessons
10 February 2013
Do organisations have internal and external barriers to learning lessons from projects?
Failings in risk management of a very basic nature
13 February 2013
Could architect's failure have been prevented by a risk register?
A lack of time for project learning
5 February 2013
More can be done to learn lessons from projects, read more to see how your business can be more effective.
Is there a lack of Lessons Learnt in Business?
14 January 2013
Read Action-Fraction's feedback review from the project management community.
Project review is a vital tool for business success
16 November 2012
Business owners and managers need to understand the insightful and critical role of project review.
How good and well used is your best practice?
10 October 2012
This may be a simple question to answer in your business...
Is it really as bad as they would have us believe?
6 September 2012
With construction projects going on all around us, why are the press still insisting there is no light at the end of the tunnel?