Assurance – is it a bureaucratic burden or an effective way to avoid failure? It will largely depend on whether you are in a team being challenged or an executive with personal accountability for the result. Most organisations have a fragmented approach to how integrated assurance is achieved. To have an integrated approach requires multiple […]
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How to improve project delivery performance?
We were undertaking a review of what we had seen and learned over the last year, and one of the main developments was the emergence of organisations achieving P3M3® level 3 and 4 ratings. There have been some interesting discoveries about the characteristics of these organisations, beyond what we had anticipated. Some of the characteristics […]
How do I develop a programme management framework?
No organisation can successfully deliver programmes and projects without an effective framework. Our work on developing the maturity model P3M3® and undertaking assessments of over 100 organisations enabled us to review a wide range of processes, guidance and tools that are used across a range of sectors. We found: Incomplete frameworks with inadequate lifecycles Frameworks […]
What is P3M3?
As many of you will know, P3M3® is the world’s number one framework for assessing organisational maturity and performance in portfolio, programme and project management. If this is a new concept to you, click here for a quick introduction. This free briefing (pdf) outlines the key concepts of P3M3. Right click this link and ‘save as’ to download the interactive […]
Ever wondered how you become a thought leading company?
Anyone can claim to be at the leading edge of the industry or a thought leader, but not many people back themselves and go into print as authors, even fewer get the backing of one of the world’s leading publishing companies such as The TSO. Why not check out some of the books that we […]
Download our P3M3® Interactive Overview!
As many of you will know, P3M3® is the world’s number one framework for assessing organisational maturity and performance in portfolio, programme and project management. If this is a new concept to you, click here for a quick introduction. This free briefing (pdf) outlines the key concepts of P3M3. Right click and save as, this link to download the interactive […]
Overview of P3M3® threads [video]
In this video, Rod Sowden the Aspire Europe Managing Director (and P3M3® joint lead author 2015) gives an overview of the P3M3 threads. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEphyOU65I] We hope you enjoy it! Click here to visit our channel and keep an eye out for more videos coming soon. P3M3® is a [registered] trade mark of AXELOS Limited, […]
P3M3® at the United Nations
We would like to share with you an interesting case study about the use of P3M3® at the United Nations. As an operational arm of the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps partners deliver around $1 billion worth of aid and development projects every year. The UNOPS mission is […]
Overview of P3M3® [video]
In this video, Rod Sowden (P3M3 joint lead author 2015) provides an overview of the P3M3 model, some of the history and how the model works: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtmh6d-iks] We hope you enjoy it! Click here to visit our channel and keep an eye out for more videos coming soon. P3M3® is a [registered] trade mark of AXELOS Limited, […]
P3M3® at Network Rail
Aspire Europe are pleased to announce that they have been awarded the Network Rail P3M3® assessment contract for 2016/17. Managing Director, Rod Sowden said “This is one of the largest and most prestigious P3M3 contracts and certainly the biggest since we undertook the whole of Queensland Government in 2012. The team are elated to have […]