Programme and Project Management Cranfield University

Howard Dickel, Client Partner for the BT London 2012 Delivery Programme explains the complexities around delivering a programme for the Olympic Games accurately and on schedule with numerous stakeholder groups and various individual project dependencies.

Nneke Abulokwe is looking at how successful software service projects are delivered to the UK, Europe or America from offshore locations. By attempting to understand the issues faced by project managers outsourcing these services, her work is revealing the various challenges they face around around organisation, culture and communication.

Executive Doctorate (DBA) student Shahzad Orakzai is looking at project based learning and the transfer of knowledge between public and private sectors.

Søren Porskrog is researching what are the factors which influence the adoption of best practice tools and techniques by programme managers through case studies involving various global programmes.

Andrew Schuster is researching capabilities that organisations need in order to successfully deliver complex projects in the British Civil Service.

Ruth Murray-Webster is researching strategically significant planned change and how organisations create the value they intend from it.