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Expert insights on project & programme management, business transformation, and AI. Read practical advice from 15+ years of consulting and delivery experience
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5 Steps to Make Governance your Growth Engine
Is your governance framework balanced? Or is it holding your business back?
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 291 min read


What Happens when AI Chatbots say "I love you"
"In a recent MIT study on whether LLMs should be used as a therapist that tested model responses to psychiatric symptoms, the researchers noted that LLMs “encourage clients’ delusional thinking, likely due to their sycophancy.”
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 261 min read


The Business Risk of Siloed Project Delivery
So when I talk about the business risk of siloed delivery, I'm talking from real experience. And I've seen it in so many other places too. Disconnected projects undermine what could be powerful business outcomes, it puts pressure on people already overloaded with change.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 252 min read


How to Identify the Right Project Leader
After years of working in project delivery and transformation, I've seen 3 leadership types stand out.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 242 min read


5 Human Factors that Make or Break AI Success
It's easy to think that 'digital natives' will adopt new AI tools easily. However, the reality is that training, communication and trust are just as critical, if not more so, for AI projects.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 231 min read


𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫
Great Product Managers win markets. But Project Managers make sure that that great idea gets successfully launched to market.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 221 min read


𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 Project 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥
It's easy to hope it "will sort itself out", but in projects, small cracks compound fast. That minor delivery hiccup gets pushed to "next week's" agenda again and again, until it becomes a board level crisis.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 191 min read


10 Signs your Project needs a Strategic Execution Partner
Every team has a strategy deck. Every board signs off on ambitious goals. You have a beautiful Portfolio of projects.
But you aren't delivering.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 181 min read


Making a Success of AI Projects
𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: It’s a business tool, not a side experiment so apply the same strategic intent, and ROI focus you would to any core investment
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 171 min read


There are Two Types of Project Managers
There are two types of Project Managers who walk into your business.
And the wrong type of PM, no matter how talented, can kill your delivery.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 161 min read


10 Signs Your Project needs an Alignment Reset
Having rescued multiple projects across fintech, hospitality, banking and financial services, I've seen the same warning signs appear again and again.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 151 min read


5 Tips for using AI to generate Cost Benefit Analysis for Projects
Using AI, Project Managers and Leaders can create more compelling project Cost Benefit data.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 121 min read


5 Moves for Proactive Project Delivery
As a project delivery and turnaround specialist, I've learned that the difference between project success and failure isn't about how fast you can put out fires. It's about preventing them from starting in the first place.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 111 min read


6 Questions COOs and Leaders ask before Signing off a Project
Approving a project is more than just a formality, it's your single biggest opportunity to protect strategy, budget, and delivery capacity.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 101 min read


The AI for Project Management Market is Exploding
The AI for project management market is predicted to hit $14.45 billion by 2034. Organisations betting on AI for scheduling, risk management, governance, and admin are seeing measurable gains in cost control, agility and oversight.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 81 min read


Project Deadlines are Slipping, Scope is Drifting
Because real alignment isn't created in a single workshop. It's built in the messy, daily details of delivery, and even the best leaders can struggle to maintain alignment once the real work begins.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 51 min read


When AI becomes invisible
When AI becomes invisible, how do we stay aware of what we're actually interacting with?
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 42 min read


4 Roles Strategic Leaders should never be doing on a Project
You're doing two jobs, and we know how that works out. Strategic leaders need to be able to steer the ship, not row it.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 31 min read


5 Tips for Using AI to write Opportunity Statements
The right 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 gets funding, alignment and traction, and AI can help you write it in hours, not weeks.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 21 min read


5 Warning Signs your Project is losing Alignment
What's more expensive than a delayed project? A team that's working hard, but going in different directions.
Sally-Anne Baxter
Sep 11 min read
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