The integration is managed at the weekly PM meeting and everyone is happy. Nano Project Management is also great at the end of a course where people leave with a succinct set of iediate next steps. It reinforces the learning and means actions are more likely.

Exclusively Kitchens is a high end bespoke kitchen designer and installation company. Focused on providing the best possible quality and value Exclusively Kitchens operated from its base in Bath across the South West. Having been in business for 12 years the directors of the business felt it was time to take a strategic view of the business and look for ways in which to accelerate the growth. Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew worked with the directors to identify ways in which they could tap into the huge amount of existing customer information. A new IT system was developed based on ACT to go with a new website, customer case studies, a new PR campaign and finally the relocation of the business to a higher footfall area and the creation of a new division called Exclusively Bathrooms. Sales and profit increased year on year.

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More and more senior people are being asked to sponsor and lead major change projects and programmes. However they often receive little, or no training on how to do this. Typically senior functional managers are tasked with making changes to their functions and whilst their functional knowledge may be excellent their business change skills are often limited.

Unfortunately much of the material that is available for project management today has been written by project managers for project managers. Thankfully Thoughtcrew is able to offer a different approach.

Project Architect™ is a fully integrated method for managing business change. Project Architect covers everything you need to know to complete a business change project. From explaining the roles to detailed checklists and templates. It also includes a full process covering everything from the idea to measuring the implemented business solution.

For a limited time we are allowing full access to the method so that you can experience first hand the help that Project Architect™ can offer.

To get access you need to register as a member of the Thoughtcrew Circle of Friends. Ask us if you want to find out more.

Project Architect is a suite of proven process engineering tools that we use to help our clients navigate their way through the challenges of building a better business. In particular we take care to ensure the vision, objectives, processes, organisation, data and technology are integrated.

Take care if all you are using are process maps…….

There seems to be a difference between what people think project management is and how they go about managing projects. Our view is pretty simple. We see the project as a finite piece of work that delivers a result – often solving a business problem. It rarely is IT alone and often IT takes a reasonably small percentage of both the time and the cost ( somewhere in the region of 20%).

So when we advise on projects, we advise on the process. We help our clients focus in on the problem ( which is often different to the one that they thought they were solving) and then we fous on getting the planned results. In our view the sponsor owns the problems and agrees the solution, the project manager then manages to the result.

The first question anyone should ask is “Did we solve the problem”?