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Organizational Change Management (OCM) is an approach to managing the people side of change. Any IT Service Management (ITSM) initiative, small or large, individual, team or department driven will in some way affect people. The OCM approach is about identifying where any res...

Happy International Women’s Day ! This year, we are celebrating some of the exceptional women we work with at AXELOS. These women are experts in their fields and respected leaders in their thought-communities.  We ask a lot, but they always come out on top and deliver amazi...

As some of you may know, this week I’m attending the Agile Alliance conference, Agile 2018 in San Diego. The event run by the Scrum Alliance brings together many of the leading thinkers on everything agile for a whole week of talks, discussions and much more. For my part, I...

AXELOS’ research project – The Future Project Management Professional – found that project managers’ roles will evolve to become more strategic within their organizations. In fact, 90% recognized the need for a much stronger strategic vision that aligns with the overa...

“ Elas Projetam ” literally translates as “they (women) make projects” and perfectly encapsulates the focus of this recently-formed, voluntary organization in Brazil. Here, Vanessa Guimarães explains how the initiative aims to connect women working in project management and...

As technology becomes more and more embedded in company processes, businesses need to look beyond the traditional ways of securing their organizations’ most valuable assets. This involves approaches that engage with people and understand their needs and perspectives on secu...

How well prepared are organizations for the activities of cyber criminals in 2019? Organizations want to feel their efforts have made a difference to answering the question “ are we secure? ” However, there is no perfect solution or ability to be 100% secure; the real aim is...

Why do so many of us fear change? Especially given its prevalence across our lifetime. The well-known business fable “ Who moved my cheese ” (I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t) outlines how our fear of change is driven by the fear of losing what currently sustains...

In Agile, Minimum Viable Bureaucracy (MVB) refers to a way of having just enough process to make things work, but not so much as to make it cumbersome particularly when applied to portfolio, programme and project direction, management and delivery practices. It’s about findin...

Over the years there have been many studies and white papers that look at the difference in the performance and attitude of motivated and non-motivated staff. Happy people give great service and therefore it makes sense to take time and effort to invest in the people that are...