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Are Your Skills Out of Date? What skills will be important 5 years from now? Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed. That’s a challenging thought, and it’s not just some marketing line from a learning and development organisation like ours.

The power of narrative in influencing change. A few years’ ago researchers at Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study. The research team offered $5 to students to complete a survey on technology – although the survey was actually incidental to the real purpose of the study as we will see. At the end of the study, each student was given five one-dollar bills and a letter asking them to donate some of their newly-gained money

Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) is a best-practice framework for delivering complex programmes in accordance with long term strategies. It was developed in recognition of the need for greater links between an organization’s longer-term strategy, objectives and goals and the projects being undertaken by that organization. MSP defines Programme Management as "...

Tens of thousands of passengers’ bags stacked high in temporary storage, scuffles breaking out between staff and customers and the Olympic torch having to be re-routed. The stories that came out of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 launch seemed to pile on the misery – they became project folklore. What lessons have we learned from this very high-profile ‘project’? It all started so well.

The Managing Director of a private sector SME writes: I see that your company offers training in OBASHI and recently we had a consultant spending some time in my own organisation who was waxing lyrical about OBASHI and how it could help the company move forward. He said it involved creating some sort of visual map that shows how the business works and then helps to define a clear pathway for refining company processes and procedures.