Lifelong Learning: Implementing Best Practice In Business

📢 “You cannot know where the world is going to be in five years’ time. The storm of change has grown, and organizations need a way to react to maintain a competitive advantage.” In this episode, Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, speaks to Andrew Craddock, a highly experienced practitioner, consultant, trainer, and mentor specialising in Agile approaches to manage business change. Listen...

In this episode we speak to Rob Lockwood, Cyber Security Expert, about hacking, cybercrime, cryptocurrency, and everything you need to know to secure your systems.  We find out the challenges that arise as code and technology continue to grow into more complex networks and ecosystems, as Rob reveals the difficulty in building secure code and technology; secure systems are fruitless if we don’t hav...

In this episode we speak to Rob Stinton, Charted Project Professional and Senior Program Manager, about the complexity of projects, stakeholder plans, maintaining momentum, and executing project delivery over a long timeline.  We begin by defining complexity in projects; Rob speaks from over 20 years of experience on how to recognize and handle a complex environment. For Rob, size isn’t what equal...

📢 “With untrodden territory, there’s no plan to show you how to get from A to B … every step is new” In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Ket Patel, UK Collaborations Lead for the Change Management Institute, about how we can better navigate the untrodden territory of Change.  Listen in as we discuss barriers, drivers, leadership, and how to build the right...

📢 “How are we going to make things better in the future for the environment? And how do we have more diversity, equity and inclusion?”  In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Mark Thomas about ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance); what ESG brings to organizations, the future it will create, and how it differs from other governance frameworks. Mark is the...

📢 “A resilient business is one which is capable, not just of withstanding shocks but is also capable of harnessing them; taking that energy and using it in creative ways to propel itself”. In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, speak to Serhiy Kovela and David Roberts about building resilience in business. Serhiy and David explain why sustainability sets a resilient b...

📢   “Tailor your approach to the problem at hand” In this episode Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talks to Adrian Dooley, Founder and Lead author of the Praxis Framework Ltd, about closing the Project and Programme divide, what the Praxis Framework offers, and why he created a Global Management Framework. Hear Adrian explain the issues that lead him to take on this herculean project, a...

📢   “To decide NOT to invest is just as important as deciding TO invest” In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Robert Gregory, ex-Deputy Director of Capital Investment in the NHS, and Management Consultant to discuss the A-Z of business cases. For Robert, the biggest risk in business cases is “inefficient investment in people early on”, andhis principal messa...

📢  “If someone’s going to build a better world, you need to ask them two critical questions; One: for whom? And two: in what time scale?” In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Adam Thilthorpe, Digital Specialist and Director for Professionalism at BCS, about using AI ethically, reshaping education, and the impact of technology. The digital era has changed the...

📢“Data will not tell you anything if you don't ask questions” In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Giovanni Lanzani, Digital Specialist and Leader of the GoDataDriven Academy, about where the value really lies in using data.   Listen in as we talk about the challenges businesses face when becoming data-driven,  the development process, the importance of...

Anthony Allcock - Chief Information and Digital Officer - British Airways  📢“Change is a constant in life. Strategy needs to be able to cater to change”  In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to, Anthony Allcock, Chief Information and Digital Officer of British Airways, a man with over 20 years of experience in executing £multi-million complex portfolios.   Alth...

Jan Willem Middelburg, Author, Enterprise Big Data Framework 📢❔💬 “Do you think it’s a good idea, or do you know that it’s a good idea”  In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Jan Willem Middelburg, CEO of Cybiant and author of The Big Data Framework. Listen in as we ask Jan about his motivations for setting up the enterprise Big Data Framework, what inspired...

📢   “You need to look beyond. Value for money is good, but it’s not enough”  In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Jean-Christophe BARTH-COULLARÉ , Executive Director at WAPPP and Co-Founder European Champions Alliance, on the new ways to execute Public Private Partnerships. Listen in as we speak to Jean-Christophe about the roots, definition, and objectives...

Gintare Geleziunaite "If you want others to change, you have to be your authentic self. " From being challenged to create a Change Management plan from scratch in a company spanning 108 countries worldwide, to ‘providing strategic direction, methodology and tools to a 250,000 people-strong organization’ in the Military, Gintare vowed to always stay true to her authentic working style.  G...

What makes a Project Manager a true craftsman?   In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to, Andreas Trautner, Published Author, Project Management craftsman, and lifelong entrepreneur.  Starting as a fisherman, Andreas followed his curiosity to his PHD studying Agricultural sciences,  when he got the opportunity to Manage a Project due to his 8 years of experience...

In this episode we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Jan Van Bon, Service Management Architecture pioneer, System Thinker, and Published Author/co-author of over 100 books. Jan combines a deep understanding of systems thinking with a passion for original thought and challenging traditional thinking.  Join us as we explore how Jan’s career led him to a breaking point. Frustrat...

What makes us behave the way we do? How can we identify and influence the way others act? And how should an influential leader really behave? In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Robert den Broeder, a  Coach and guru of behavioral change, to answer all these questions and more.  Robert is the Author of: "Organizational Behavior Management (OBM), an intro...

In this episode, Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talks to the knowledgeable and ever-enthusiastic Hannah Cooper, who is a Business Relationship Manager (BRM) in the National Lottery Community Fund.  She started in the beginning and was instrumental in building the role from the ground up.   Shaped by her strong partner-focused style, Hannah explains to us the importance of the BRM role...

In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Liz Herman, the Senior Manager at Knowledge Content Training for the Accenture Federal Services in Washington DC.  A skilled technical Communicator who puts people at the heart of what she does, Liz recently won the ‘Winner of the Service to the Citizen award’, for her work in transforming complex knowledge (such as federa...

You can't handle the truth!  In this episode, Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG talks to Stacey Barr, The Performance Measure Specialist and founder of PuMP training and certification as she talks through how to 'measure the immeasurable' (intangible, qualitative and vague goals). If you create KPIs or are developing your Evidence Based Leadership and Delivery - this is a must-listen epis...

Implementing Best Practice In Business Podcast How Public Private Partnerships PPP help with innovation in healthcare In this episode, Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International is joined by two guests - Natalia Korchakova-Heeb, Global Lead for PPPs and Greenfield Hospitals and Renas Rechid Global Head of Sales Enterprise Services at Siemens Healthineers. They discuss sustainable healthcare and hig...

Implementing Best Practice in Business Podcast is hosted Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International  Our guest in this episode is Timothy Esposito, who talks about implementing best practice Technical Communication at Oracle. Timothy is the Manager of Logistics Documentation at Oracle Corporation where he supervises an international team of technical writers. He’s been a member of the Society for T...

In this episode of Implementing Best Practice in Business, Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, chats to Jesper Schreiner.   Jesper has over 25 years’ experience in programme and project management. During his career he became fascinated by the uncertainties in projects and management and completed a master’s thesis on the subject.  Prior to his innovative work with the Half Double institute...

In this episode, Richard Pharro speaks to Kamil Mroz, who has been listed as a PMI Future 50 honouree - a group of leaders who are transforming the workplace through collaboration, inclusion, and purpose Hear his thoughts on future trends in Project Management and what he hopes to learn from the speed of major projects that have been delivered during the Pandemic. Kamil ‘s experience in people man...

In this episode, Richard Pharro talks to John Humphries, who  provides advice  across a number of disciplines including  Risk,  Agile PM and BA, Change Management, Proposal Management and Better Business Cases. He is a consultant, Trainer and Author and has co-authored and contributed to a number of publications .  John works at the centre of Government as a risk management facilitator and instruc...