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    • Supporting the Jordanian Government

      Category: Insights

      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…

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    • Strategic Intent

      Category: Insights

      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…

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    • Delivering workshops in Sri Lanka

      Category: Insights

      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…

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    • Giving evidence to parliament on performance of major projects

      Category: Insights

      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

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    • Performance and benefits research in major projects

      Category: Insights

      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…

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    • Performance Measurement, Management and Gardening

      Category: Mike's Blog

      It’s summer. At the time of writing it has been warm and wet.  The grass, the plants and all the weeds have grown profusely and it’s hard to remember just how difficult it can be to create a garden in the first place. But I can assure you, if you haven’t tried, that it is…………

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    • Measurement Savvy, Performance Stupid

      Category: Mike's Blog

      I hope your organisation doesn’t suffer from the problem I’m about to describe –  but we all know examples from organisations that do. It hit me forcefully on a recent occasion when a relative was in hospital. Without going into too much detail, he was admitted with an electrolyte disorder. Once the hospital managed to…

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    • Wombats and their strategies

      Category: Mike's Blog

      Wombats are fascinating creatures and from just looking at them it is hard to believe that they have survived. But they have some interesting characteristics and killer strategies. The wombat has evolved to survive and kill its main predator. But what happens if the threat changes? How do our companies survive? How many of us…

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