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Great Project Management is the key to unlocking innovation

Have you noticed that your organisation's most interesting, innovative and impactful work often starts as a time-limited grant or a pilot project?

If this is you, then you are not alone.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, one of the international thought leaders in Project Management, believes that organisations establish and run projects to grow and increase innovation and productivity in the workforce.

“Projects have displaced (usual) operations as the economic engine of our times.”

(Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez)

Over the last five years, Projects for Purpose have worked with many for-purpose organisations of different sizes on important projects. The projects have helped establish new initiatives, programs and service models; we have dug deep into systems and processes to improve business viability and client outcomes; and have helped them achieve their organisational mission and strategic goals. Whatever the project, Projects for Purpose has supported them to experience success and achieve expected outcomes on time and within budget.

Unfortunately, we have also been asked to jump in and help revive a project before it fails. Commonly this request to help revive a project is because:

The organisation has used its normal operational processes and teams to run its projects, rather than taking a “project” approach.
Responsibility for managing the project deliverables, schedule, budget and risks is given to staff who have an existing workload and do not have specific project management knowledge to run the project effectively.
The project’s purpose is not communicated to people outside the project.

To help more organisations experience success with their projects, we have published our free Project Management e-book,