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Risk Mitigation Strategies for High-Stakes IT Projects: Lessons from Fortune 500 Turnarounds with IT Project Management Services
High-stakes IT projects represent both tremendous opportunity and significant risk. With digital transformation initiatives increasingly central to business strategy, your approach to managing project risks directly impacts not just IT outcomes, but broader business...
Beyond Crisis Management: How Modern Project Recovery Services Drive Enterprise-Wide Resilience
Project recovery isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days of simply firefighting and moving on. Today's approach to recovering troubled projects can revolutionise how your entire organisation handles challenges and builds strength. The Strategic Evolution of...
Navigating Complex Digital Transformations in Uncertain Times
As a leader steering your organisation through a digital transformation, you're faced with critical decisions that will shape your company's future. Understanding key decision points and success metrics can mean the difference between transformation success and costly...
From Crisis to Opportunity: Transforming Troubled IT Projects into Strategic Victories
IT project challenges are inevitable. However, the difference between market leaders and laggards often lies not in avoiding crises, but in how they transform these challenges into opportunities for innovation and growth. Rapid Assessment: The Foundation of Recovery...
The Hidden Costs of Failed Digital Transformations: A Guide to Project Recovery
Digital transformation failures can silently drain your organisation's resources long before the project is officially declared "off track." With research showing that 70% of digital transformation initiatives fall short of their objectives, understanding the true...
More Aussie firms are hiring chief transformation officers
In a 45-minute window of the half-year results period just past, two large companies made the same significant strategic move, independently of one another. At 8.00am, ANZ Banking Group created a digital transformation executive role. At 8.45am, BHP announced the...
How to apply machine learning to assist digital transformation projects
Large digital programs usually tend to focus on the technology side of the solutions, particularly IT transformation programs. The focus is predominantly on implementations of new platforms to support the business while forgetting other important aspects, such as...
Measuring people performance with ML
Eek! A machine is going to tell me I’m not good enough?… We hear a lot about artificial intelligence and machine learning as if they are future concepts with no practical applications. But in the project management and business transformation space there are...
Six group behaviours found in all successful project teams
There are many reasons IT projects go off the rails or fail, but one of the most common is the behaviour of the people working on them. Over the past decade spent rescuing troubled projects, we’ve identified six different group behavioural patterns that are common in...
How Agile will expose your decision-making effectiveness
Article by Certus3 managing partners Simo Popovac and Michael Devlin. A key goal for many organisations that go down the Agile path is to move faster. The language of Agile supports this, packaging work into sprints and delivering new features and products on a...