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Case Studies

'Making it Better' for the UK National Health Service
 

The MiB project, for the UK's National Health Service, was one of sophistication and complexity aimed at improving NHS support for Children, Young People and Families. As such it involved very diverse groups of stakeholders. A robust implementation program was needed that ensured an effective way forward for all affected parties. Human Systems was selected to support the Children, Young People & Families' Network, giving them access to best practice and ensuring that the best routes to success were taken from the very start.

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GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Advances
Project Practices and Performance

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a research-based pharmaceutical company employing around 100,000 people in over 100 countries. The Global Project & Portfolio Management division has been a member of Human Systems’ knowledge-sharing Network for over ten years. During this time, the two companies have worked closely to further GSK’s project performance objectives.

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Building Program Management
Capability at BT

In 2004, BT Global’s Customer Service and Network Operations (CS&NO) comprised 20,000 skilled professionals across 200 countries. With the organization growing rapidly, BT was anxious to build program management capability so the company could create end-to-end network solutions for BT’s customers more competitively.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation targets global excellence 

Being considered as one of the biggest and the best may tempt some organizations towards complacency, but as Bombardier Transportation saw their business growing, they considered this as a prompt to improve, and instigated a global programme to push further towards project management excellence.

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Department of Health

Human Systems assists Department of Health Transformation Program

When the Department of Health initiated a radical change program, they knew that finding high quality external consultants to provide an objective third-party view would be the key to success. A rare combination of expertise across the science and the art of project management would be needed, combined with the very best facilitation skills to ensure that every perspective was considered.

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DWP

Building PM Professionalism
across the DWP

Working with Human Systems for almost 10 years has resulted in DWP consistently delivering increased project and program management efficiency. In recent years, the Department has regularly won awards from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), the Association for Project Management (APM) and other professional associations. The next step for DWP was to consolidate its centres of excellence into strong project management communities that would continue to develop and improve through robust knowledge-sharing practices and processes.

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Human Systems is valuable springboard for Ericsson’s project management success

Today, Human Systems and Ericsson are working so closely together to maintain project management excellence throughout the Ericsson Group, that they operate as one team. Human Systems’ benchmarking tools and improvement methods are now an intrinsic part of Ericsson’s global approach and are an essential element of the company’s continuing customer order delivery success.

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Putting People First
Evaluation Centre December 2009

People, not processes, are the essential ingredient in successful project delivery, says Dr. Terry Cooke-Davies.

Planning and process have long been seen as the real heart of project management. After all, “You have to build the walls before you can put the roof on”, project novices are told. It is the order of things that matters, and it is the level of organization needed to ensure things happen in a precise order – that is where the real skill lies.

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Improving project results
PMT October 2009
The present article seems to suggest a second lesson: namely that if your organization is not small, then ensure that your central PMO reports to the very top of the organization – presumably so that project delivery and benefits performance can then get the top management attention that it otherwise lacks in large organizations. Request full article
Reasons for project failure?
it's all in the context.
PMT September 2009
A regular speaker at Human Systems Network workshops, Charlie Pellerin is a legend at NASA for his work on rescuing the flawed Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has since provided astronomers with a unique insight to the universe. As a result of the original failure, he learnt an invaluable lesson that has resulted in a better way of building teams.

Human Systems is now licensed to deliver 4D’s Project Team & Project Team Leader Performance Assessments and can offer the team and leadership performance assessment suite that proved to be the key to sustained improvement for NASA’s teams.
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'Small is Beautiful' in pm
PMT May 2009
‘Small is Beautiful’ in project management . . . or at least, that is how it appears. Terry Cooke-Davies has been casting his expert eye over the data from the Project Manager Today/Human Systems survey last year. Commenting on his findings, he told Editor, Ken Lane, that if PMT were a newspaper, ‘I’d be inclined to say, “hold the front page”, since I think that the results are both surprising and important.’ Request full article
Distance Learning
Project Magazine February 2009
A world shortage of top class managers to run increasingly complex projects and programmes, and the requirement by project-led companies for consistent standards across worldwide activities, is fuelling a global trend for organisations to develop talent through their own internal academies. Request full article
Interactivity - The End of Passive Learning
Project Magazine November 2007
Human Systems Executive Chairman Terry Cooke-Davies chaired the conference panel for this first APM Conference. He reflects on two days of a professional activity event that has helped to shape the future of project management in the coming years. Request full article
Sharing data is the answer to pm success
PMT March 2007
Terry Cooke-Davies set up his world-wide Networks for companies to safely share data on their successes and failures in projects and programs, so that he could provide real benchmarks against which they could improve their practices.  As a successful entrepreneur and businessman he recognises the need to learn from real experience, and he describes project management as an area of management where ‘yesterday is not a reliable guide for tomorrow’. Request full article
Catching the network bug PMT March 2007 Networking is an excellent way of increasing your knowledge, but how can you share the company’s more sensitive information? Request full article

Execution's best kept secret!
Project Management European CEO

Brian Trefty and Tony Teague examine "The impact of improved project delivery on the bottom line . . ." Request full article

Doing the right projects consistently
PMT March 2005

Part 2 - Tony Teague completes his mini series with ways of choosing the right projects and doing them correctly . . . Request full article

The gulf between strategy, project & reality
PMT February 2005

Part 1 of this two part mini-series where Tony Teague looks at the reason why there is a gulf between those who plan strategy and those who deliver . . . Request full article
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Click to buy - Right Projects Done Right: From Business Strategy to Successful Project ImplementationRight Projects
       Done Right!

Dr Terry Cooke-Davies' book, co-authored with international consultant Paul Dinsmore, has been acclaimed as ‘one of the best books on project management to emerge in the past several years’.

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Project Manager Today 

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