Project Management

The Marketing Bureau can help deliver the future….

For organisations, project management unlocks the door to excellence and success. It allows organisations to deliver their promises to customers and gives them an axis upon which business agility can be built. It provides the flexibility to change and move with the times.

In the face of intense competition, the ability to deliver your promises, innovate with speed and efficiency and make changes quickly is the key to sustained success.

So what is project management?

The art of planning for the future has always been a human trait. In essence a project can be captured on paper with a few simple elements: a start date, an end date, the tasks that have to be carried out and when they should be finished, and some idea of the resources (people, machines etc) that will be needed during the course of the project. However, when the plan starts to involve different things happening at different times, some of which are dependent on each other, plus resources required at different times and in different quantities and perhaps working at different rates, the paper plan could start to cover a vast area and be unreadable.

Project management is not only about planning but also about human attributes like leadership and motivation, amix of components are involved including control, leadership, teamwork and resource management.

Businesses need to know that their projects will be on time, meet quality objectives, and not cost more than the budget. These form the classic time, quality, cost triangle. In fact if you have an unlimited budget and unlimited time, project management becomes rather easy. For most people, however, time and money are critical and that is what makes project management so important today… let The Marketing Bureau show you the way….