How often do we look five or ten years out? Only by doing this can we clearly articulate our strategic intent. Having done this we can work back to the present, and decide how we are going to start to build our future with the strategic intent in mind. A strategic intent is a decision…

At the time of writing, the coronavirus pandemic is reaching its peak in the UK.  In the years to come there are bound to be thousands of pages written about what went wrong, what went well and what could have been done better. No doubt, over time initial conclusions will change as more analysis is…

Mike and Pippa conducted a series of workshops in Sri Lanka attended by employees and directors of large companies and financial institutions. http://www.ft.lk/hr/Professor-Michael-Bourne–leader-in-Corporate-Performance—of-Cranfield-University–UK–visits-Sri/47-670219 Mike gave the inaugural speech at the Federation of Information Technology Industries Sri Lanka (FITIS) Business Leaders’ Forum, talking about performance and competitiveness of the Sri Lankan economy. Link He was also…

Last year, Mike gave evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, along with three other professors.  The Committee is conducting an inquiry into the Government’s management of major projects. https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-administration-and-constitutional-affairs-committee/ https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/c0f92d7e-fd18-4bff-b3a6-a904ba5d99af

Pippa has been involved, through a consortium of Universities, in research the performance of complex public sector projects with particular emphasis on their management and the benefits they deliver. This has involved interviewing project management professionals in the US and the UK and drawing insights from the case studies. The recent study into how public…

Governments around the world regularly struggle to implement their policies. Developing a policy is the start of the process, this makes a good headline, but the headline comes back to haunt you when the policy fails in implementation. The successful implementation of a policy comes from translating the idea into a project or series of…