Graham Colborne was invited to present to the PMI Australian National Conference in September this year in Melbourne.

The presentation, similar to the one earlier this year was on the topic of portfolio management and explained how Portfolio, Programme, Project and Change management can work together to deliver an organisation's strategy in an efficient and effective way.

Once again the presentation was well received. Comments included:

"Thanks to Graham Colborne who provided information on portfolio and programme management that is so relevant that I can use as soon as I get back to the office."

"Just wanted to let you know that your presentation was very insightful and very relevant for some of the issues/improvements I am wanting to address"

Projetics has been invited by African Barrick Gold to deliver project management training to its 3 mines in Tanzania, Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi and North Mara.

Graham Colborne who was Regional Manager for Barrick Australia-Pacific was an obvious choice for Barrick due to his knowledge of both the material and the organisation.

Barrick's own project management training PMiA (Project Management in Action) uses the principle of 8 keys for project management success and has been delivered to Barrick sites all over the world.

Graham Colborne was invited to present to the PMI Chapter Meeting in March this year.

He presented on the topic of portfolio management and explained how Portfolio, Programme, Project and Change management can work together to deliver an organisation's strategy in an efficient and effective way.

The presentation was very well received by the chapter membership.

Boosting Business Benefits is a short book to assist organisations implement effective benefits management. It covers the integration of Benefits Management into current practices.

As might be expected from the title, the techniques and advice given here will enable organisations to improve their performance in realising benefits. The book has suggestions for integrating managing benefits practices into current frameworks already used in organisations.

The book covers the four fundamentals in avoiding benefit realisation disasters:

1. Ensure investments align with organisational objectives and this alignment is clear and transparent.

2. Ensure each funded initiative provides the best value-for-money approach to address the objective. Integrate value management into the culture.

3. Avoid commitment to investments with long delivery timeframes, preferring wherever possible to fund shorter stages and reassess on the basis of progress and environmental changes. In other words – Plan-Do-Check-Act

4. Implement effective governance. This is a top-down requirement with senior managers leading by example through accountability structures. Supporting arrangements include effective reward-recognition processes and the consistent use of proven delivery frameworks with adequate staff training.

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