22/09/2016 Ziad Al-basir PMO

Project Portfolio Implementation – The Secret Strategy

Project portfolio approach and practice is still developing for many organisations. Organisations with responsibility to deliver many projects a year like utilities companies, government organisations, assets and financial management, contractors, consultants and projects developers are the most must users for it. Portfolio defined by the PMI in “The Standards for Portfolio Management – Third Edition” as a component collection of programs, project, or operation managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives. On simple words, the portfolio is an engineering […]

01/09/2016 Ziad Al-basir Leadership

Leadership Communication

Leadership is a subject which always fascinate me and seduce me to read whatever it comes to my hand about it to learn more about the main characteristic of the leaders. There are different leader’s characteristics as all you know like “vision, Integrity, empowerment, encouragement, setting the example, communication, planning, sharing leadership, developing, controlling performance, flexible, supportive, team worker and many others. The researchers and writers put these skills in different ranking to figure the top 10 leaders qualities. However, […]

01/09/2016 Ziad Al-basir Business Transformation

The Importance of Choosing the Right PM Software

We read very limited news about a structure failure. However, we hear a lot about project time and budget overrun. Which I consider it a project planning and control design failure. Small number of cases are justified and the remaining are a cause of poor project management and in particular project control management. It is not surprising to know that research is showing that business leaders identify capturing time/costs against projects” as their biggest project management challenge. Moreover, research is […]

01/09/2016 Ziad Al-basir Leadership

Diversity and Successful Leadership

When you think yourself or your organization are not overcoming the market changes and challenges, think about diversity thinking. The successful leadership is the leadership which accept the challenge of its decision. This tolerance is a confirmation of the confidence on the leader’s ability to lead and the team ability to take over when it is approved, it is the time to change. Each challenge will be either a solid stone to sustainable success for the organization or a […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Bidding & Tendering

How To Turn Challenges Into Opportunity?

Market is always changing. Within these changes, your decision quality is based on three factors; your collected data, your data analysis system and of course the minds who operate them. In construction industry, the challenge of changing market becomes more complex due the huge investment the contractors are doing. This challenge is smaller in engineering firms comparing to contractors. However, having a sustainable business is crucial for both. Here it comes the d2b complexity the consultant and contractors face every day. […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Strategic Planning

Building The Organisation Systems Around Customers Need

It was so interesting to listen and read the in the different media the details of the PwC’s 19th Annual Global CEO Survey in Davos. What attracting me more in the survey was a point which I was advocating for long time which is organization transformation to use the latest technology related to how we do business. The survey showed that 90% of CEOs surveyed are trying to use latest technologies and inventions. However, they are being challenged to align all parts of their operating model behind customer strategies. In the field of engineering & construction, the challenge of aligning […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir PMO

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) and Data Visualization

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) is a database management system. Because it links the projects portfolio delivery schedule status with all related data in each project (Scope, Time, Resource, and Cost) from one side and the business processes in the other side. It is the future gate for managing and control projects in the project based organization like consultant, contractors and developers who work on projects delivery. The most important examples of the EPPM outcomes are: creating visual for project […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Bidding & Tendering

How to Encounter Client Lowest Bidding Strategy for Similar Projects?

In bidding and tendering, we have mainly three types of pricing; actual cost, risk-averse cost and mark up price. This article is not discussing the mark up price which is the difference between the cost of a good or services and its selling price. It is discussing the pressure to reduce the total bid price to win the bid. This pressure usually comes from not winning new work after certain time. One unique situation is when the client is having a good strategy to […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Planning & Control

Managing Planning & Scheduling by Quantifying The Risk and Expressing The Level of Confidence

The question we should ask during initial planning is not just “How long will it take?” Better questions would be: “How likely is it that we can make our schedule? How likely is it we will meet this cost constraint? How likely is it that our team size is sufficient?” The questions should include this qualifier: “How likely?” Likewise, the answer should not be “12 months”. It should include the risk. “It’s likely we can do this in 12 months. […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Business Transformation

The ZIP Model : Organisation Systems Change and Transformation

The challenge of organisation systems changing (lets call it “transform how we work”) while we are working is always complex and delegate process. The pressure on the staff with no interruption to clients services are key points on the new system transformation. Transfer process must consider normal work pressure to employees to get the buy in from them. In the same time, you can’t involve your clients on the transfer change. You have to isolate their services delivery from the new […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Strategic Planning

The Importance of Mapping the Right Project Delivery Process within the Enterprise Integrated System

Integration the business strategy within the project delivery process and vice versa is the core foundation to have a sustainable enterprise growth and profit. However, it is not that sample as it sounds. It is still a challenge for many organizations to have such integration. The first challenge is having ONE project delivery process from creation to closeout based on the different organization business lines. The detail within the processes is what marks the organization as successful on efficient delivery, successful […]

28/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir Business Development

Successful Business Planning Using Client’s Business Model

Successful business delivery is always based on client satisfaction. Understanding your clients’ needs means loyal customers and sustainable growth. Sustainable growth is a challenge on containing market changes. Market analysis history shows patterns of market expansion and recession. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the United States, there have been 11 business cycles from 1945 to 2009, with the average length of a cycle lasting about 69 months, or a little less than six years. The […]

21/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir PMO

PMO Data Visualization and Uncorrelated Data

In PMO management, sometimes you have to present a dashboard with data visualization where you didn’t maintain its data accuracy. This happen when you start a new job for new organization or when you take over someone else responsibility. So be careful of being the scapegoat of bad and uncorrelated data. It is important to highlight your findings, the gaps and limitation on your data presentation. You should present the path forward plan. However, in some cases, you need to […]

05/08/2016 Ziad Al-basir PMO

PMO Implementation Requirements & Challenges

Considering the current market changes and torments, consultants and contractors are focused on operational initiatives that would keep the business running. These thinking blocks them from initiatives to innovate and stay ahead of the competition and maximizing opportunities. It also forces them to take more risks and make difficult cost cutting. Because of this thinking, they always delay new system implementation to avoid more cost and long investment. The excuse are there like disruption to operation (which is already having trouble). However, on […]