What constitutes maturity in project controls? In many organisations, project controls is often seen as an individual discipline where the Project Manager reigns supreme. Moving down a path towards greater project controls maturity often involves a cultural change; shifting project controls away from an individual discipline and towards a culture of consistently successful projects.
Technology is Here to Stay Did you know that 20 of the global top 20 oil and gas companies are powered by Oracle, along with 20 of the top 20 Insurance companies and banks? In fact, over 96% of the Global Fortune 500 is running Oracle, including Australia’s largest companies. It’s no secret that
There is no better time than now to start a career in Project Management. A boom in major projects in different industries has created demand for project professionals, with opportunities opening up in the likes of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) industries, entertainment industries, health sectors, and many more. The odds are, if
When you look at the business world, Oracle technology is everywhere. Oracle enterprise systems are incredibly powerful, but can also be necessarily complex. Using these systems to their full ability requires advanced users. Oracle accreditation gives users the edge. Oracle University courses have been developed by the same teams involved in the development of
As a project manager, there never seems to be enough time for training. Certainly if your experience is anything like mine, you move from one project to the next, often finishing one and starting another simultaneously. That means when you do make that commitment and schedule (pun intended!) time for training, you need to
Programme Controls Director Will Bentley talks about using Deltek Acumen Fuse to quickly assess highly complex projects. Deltek Acumen Fuse helps you diagnose and more importantly, resolve project shortcomings in a matter of minutes, eliminating time wasted on manual validation techniques that take your project team away from their core project work. Quickly and
Oracle’s VP of Industry Strategy, Yasser Mahmud, explains how construction companies can enhance situational awareness using sensor data. Oracle Primavera applications are used to manage the complete lifecycle of assets; and with the Internet of Things (IoT) there is a significant opportunity for improving construction productivity throughout the build process for these
Organisational change is a difficult concept to understand; broadly, it is the process by which an organisation makes changes to its structure, strategies, operational methods, technologies or culture. According to the Harvard Business Review, an average of 70% of all change initiatives fail. By the above definition, change is a fundamental part of our
