During the past decade the skills of project management have become increasingly recognized as highly desirable for managers at all levels in an organization. Most people today can benefit from the application of these skills to some parts of their daily operations. The rapid growth of global markets and continuous improvements and, more recently, the drive to redesign business processes all require project management skills to some degree.
All are aimed at improving organizational effectiveness and performance in a highly competitive world marketplace. The world marketplace is continually changing and every organization, irrespective of the service or product it offers, must accept that internal change is a normal process to meet the demands of external change.
The successful and effective implementation of change employs specific skills that have traditionally been owned by a select group of technical professionals – managers. This is no longer true, and the skills of managing change are essential for everyone in an organization at all levels. Change always requires a cultural shift for everyone:
• introducing new processes;
• finding new and better procedures and working practices;
• throwing off the old habits to create a more dynamic and flexible organization;
• being able to react effectively to market forces;
• searching for ways to maintain competitiveness;
• searching for ways to seek new horizons.
To carry out such change requires some special management skills. Project management has long provided a structured and organized way to achieve success every time, but has been buried deep inside technical and engineering departments as part of their exclusive domain. Unfortunately, it is not surprising that project management has been regarded as too complicated and as a result is frequently misunderstood and very poorly practised in other parts of the business.
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