Archive for September, 2009

Aspire Europe and Met Office

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Thanks to the hard work of our team, Aspire Europe Ltd have been selected by the Met Office to receive the ITT for the Programme and Project Management framework.

More hard work ahead to win the contract but more evidence of the increasing reputation of Aspire Europe - we have only failed to be selected to receive the ITT as part of a tender process once in the past two years.

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Aspire Europe to speak at APM Event in Plymouth - 29 Oct

Friday, September 11th, 2009

An Introduction to Managing Successful Programmes

Date
 Thursday 29th October 2009
Time
 6pm for 6.30pm until 8pm
Venue
 Copthorne Hotel, Armada Way, Plymouth, PL1 1AR
Presented by
 Rod Sowden, Aspire Europe

Join the Office for Government Commerce (OGC) Lead Author to follow the golden thread needed for all successful programmes.
Rod Sowden will take an introductory look at what is involved in managing successful programmes. He will discuss what good implementation should look like. Along the way, he will introduce the lifecycle and themes that are fundamental to the approach.
Rod has been a pioneer of Managing Successful Programmes since the launch in 1999. Over the lifetime of the framework he implemented it at the BBC, set up Aspire Europe Ltd as a consultancy dedicated to its development, developed it into an accredited MSP training company and in 2006 he was appointed Lead Author by the OGC for the 2007 version.
His presentations draw on experience of delivering consultancy and training in many different areas of the public and private sectors, and are delivered in a passionate, engaging and humorous way with the audience.
Rod Sowden is an experienced programme management consultant with a number of successful consulting and delivery assignments behind him that have left organisations with sustainable change. During this time he has seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to delivering effective change programmes and projects.
In 2007 he was appointed by the OGC and the APM Group as the lead author for the P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, Project management maturity model) 2008 refresh. The authoring team have produced a fresh, pragmatic approach to helping organisations engage with the concepts of maintaining a measured approach to improving and using the maturity model.
A buffet will be served from 6pm to 6:30pm during which time there will be a chance for networking.
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Quotes from delegates regarding the vocational assessments

Monday, September 7th, 2009

“I found it [Programme Management Principles assessment] very useful to do this as it helped frame the principles with my specific context” – Dorset County Council 

 

“Going away and applying the concepts that I learned on the course made a huge difference to the value I gained, much better than sitting a formal exam” – South East Enterprise Development Agency 

 

“I attended the MSP course in Bath on Tuesday.  I found this very helpful and so have signed up to also do the written assessment”. – Wiltshire County Council 

 

  

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Preferred supplier status for East of England Councils

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Aspire Europe Ltd are really proud to announce that they have been selected, through a full tender process, to provide programme management training and consultancies in the East of England through their Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.

We are already the preferred suppliers for similar services to the South West and West Midlands Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships and we believe this is further endorsement of our increasing national reputation.

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Aspire Europe Ltd move into ITIL

Monday, September 7th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that we have decided to offer our client training in the OGC IT Service Management qualification ITIL.

Our lead trainer will be Julian Hood, one of the founding members of Aspire Europe Ltd in 2002 and has personally written the material, which has his extensive operational and training experience in the topic embedded within it.

Welcome back Julian

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Portfolio, Programme and Project Management (P3O)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

 

We are really pleased to announce that we have now been formally accredited by the APM Group to deliver this P3O training.

We are hugely fortunate to have the P3O lead author (Sue Vowler) as our lead author, so if you are looking for a training course delivered by the leading authority on the topic - we are the company to help you

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Management of Risk accreditation is throug

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Aspire Europe Ltd are now accredited to offer Management of Risk training to our clients.

Our lead trainer is Alan Summerfield who is an industry guru on the topic.

We will start to schedule courses later in the autumn

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Farewell to Lewis

Monday, September 7th, 2009

For those of you that have any dealings with us and had the chance to work with Lewis you will know what a great guy he is.

He’s only been with us for a few months but is sadlly leaving as he has been offered the chance to pursue a career path in Environmental assessments which is a particular passion of his.

We will really miss him but Aspire Europe is much stronger organisation as a result of his contribution to our cause.

Best of luck Lewis and stay in touch

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Cannonball Run - the final chapter

Monday, September 7th, 2009

 

The Cannonball Run entry has bought huge fun to Aspire Europe team this year, being part of such a major event and also doing it in a 25 year old camper van.

Ultimately though, the aim was to raise money for charity, and we have attached a letter from the orphanage in Zimbabwe outlining how your contribution was spent.

It is really rather humbling.

Particular thanks to our co-pilots in the camper van on the journey Jason Cole and Julian Hood

 

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