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Organisational Climate and the Competitive Edge
in L Lloyd-Reason & S Wall [Eds]
Dimensions of Competitiveness: Issues and Policies
Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2000
ISBN 1840645687
A research-based expaloration of the relationship between organisational
climate and organisational success and competitive advantage.
Feelgood Factor
Project -
the journal of the Association for Project Management, October 1999
A discussion of research showing that the climate, or perceived atmosphere,
of an organisation is directly related to the success of the work being
done.
Issues in programme integration
(with P J Bamford) International Journal of Project Management
Vol 17 No 6, 1999
A consideration of the inevitable complexities in the interactions of
projects and programmes with each other, with "business as usual", and with
corporate objectives and strategy.
Alternative approaches to programme management
International Journal of
Project Management Vol 15
No 1, 1997
An examination of the concept of programme, and discussion of
various ways of coordinating and controlling the constituent projects within
a programme structure..
It Takes All Sorts
Project Manager Today
September 1996
A light-hearted look at some of the characters you might meet in a project
team, such as the Manual-Minder, the Carpetbagger and the Technophobe, with
some ideas on how to handle them
Gang Aft Agley
Project Manager Today
April 1996
This article argues the case for a "soft" and flexible approach to project
planning, and briefly introduces chaos theory and systems thinking
Projects and Project Management a review of the literature
Kumpania Consulting Practitioner Paper series 1998
Considers what a project is and what project management entails, and
significant issues in the application of project management in an
organisational environment are addressed