The Intelligent Company is a blog under the direction of Bernard Marr since its 2006 inception. Marr, an acclaimed author and expert on enterprise performance management and business intelligence, heads up the internationally acclaimed Advanced Performance Institute (API) and regulary advises leading companies, organisations and governments across the globe, which makes him an award-winning keynote speaker, researcher, consultant and teacher.

He uses The Intelligent Company blog to share ideas and best practices in one of two posts each month.

“It is about the latest ideas, trends and thinking in enterprise performance management, organisational analysis, business intelligence, strategy, etc,” he says.

Bernard is exceptionally qualified to tackle such subjects. He is acknowledged by the CEO Journal as one of today’s leading business brains. Bernard Marr has written a number of seminal books and over 200 high profile reports and articles on managing organisational performance. This includes the best-sellers ‘The Intelligent Company’, ‘More with Less’, ‘Managing and Delivering Performance’ and ‘Strategic Performance Management’, a number of Gartner Reports, and some of the world’s largest research studies on enterprise performance management.

The most widely read Intelligent Company blog post reflects of the most widely popular supermarket in the UK…

Why Tesco is an ‘Intelligent Company’

Bernard also wanted to give mention to three of his personal favourites…

The Top 3 Enterprise Performance Concerns of Executives

Mapping your way to success

How is social media changing the way we measure performance?

Be sure to follow Bernard Marr’s blog by way of his Twitter handle, @bernardmarr

URL: http://theintelligentcompany.blogspot.com/

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SpanishPMO is a Spanish-language project management blog run by Fermin de Rojas that focuses on elements within PM, namely methodologies, tools, jobs and coaching. A bilingual project management expert educated at Brighton University, Fermin was startled to find a wealth of PM blogs available in English, compared to the relative lack in his native Spanish, and decided to take care of such matters himself as a major audience seemed to be missing out.

“I took for granted that everybody could speak english or at least could read it, but realised that there were very little information regarding Project Management in Spanish,” Fermin told us. “Bear in mind that there are 350 million Spanish speakers, mainly in Latin America, EEUU and Spain.

“This is the main reason why SpanishPMO.com was born, a website focus in project management in spanish, specialized in articles of how to set up a PMO, methodologies like Prince2 and PMI, tools, cyber security, coaching, negotiation and leadership skills.”

Fermin uses SpanishPMO as a portal in “specialized in articles of how to set up a PMO, methodologies like Prince2 and PMI, tools, cybersecurity, coaching, negotiation and leadership skills.” He says his audiences not only centers on those practising or interested in practising project management and leadership, but also those who work in an office environment.

“I motivated to blog through my own goals of personal self-improvement and self-satisfaction. I want to evangelise the word of Project Management and Agile method in the Spanish mentality.”

Fermin says his most popular post concerns Spanish-language books fellow speakers can turn to as PPM-related resources (links in Spanish only)
Libros

Among his favourite posts are:

• Creacion de Una Oficina de Proyectos (PMO)
• JIRA la herramienta perfecta para la administración de proyectos
• Funcionalidad Frankestein

Be sure to keep track of Fermin and SpanishPMO on Twitter @spanishpmo

URL: http://spanishpmo.com/

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The AFA blog is one of the most recently established blogs on PPM Community, premiering 1st November 2010. It’s company blog for AFA, established as a management consultancy organisation 15 years ago and since developing into a reputable training course provider.

Alan Ferguson suggested AFA to PPM Community, as the blog updates 3-5 times per week.

“As one of the most successful and well known project management specialists throughout the UK and Europe, AFA would like to give a unique insight into the mind of some of the most respected managers within the community and a unique ‘all access’ view of our organisation,” he says. “We hope the AFA blog will give people an insight into practices for delivering change, including portfolio, programme and project management as well as AFA as an organisation.

The newness of the blog creates an uncertainty as to where the content of the blog will lead over time, though change could be a key area of focus.

“What will we be discussing? Of course we don’t know – that is the beauty of a blog,” Alan says. “When AFA was founded by me over 15 years ago the world was simple – we used project management. But as time has moved on we have all realised that we need more tools, methods, methodologies, disciplines, practices… Then there is programme and now portfolio management, offices, maturity models and a whole range of super-techniques: benefits, risk, value. And below all this sits the softer side of achieving change – change management. Well we have found ourselves referring to this set of methods as Practices for Delivering Change. So I think the theme of the blog will be Practices for Delivering Change.”

Alan’s experience includes updating the most recent Best Practice management guidance. AFA, he says, is in demand to deliver master classes and other training events throughout Europe. Since founding AFA, Alan has delivered assignments in numerous locations as far afield as New York and Canberra; he has experience in working with both public & private sector organisations.

“Here at AFA, we are having more and more fascinating discussions on blogs and discussion groups and thought we would like to pull these debates together in one place,” he says. “The best way to do this was to a create a blog, which we hope in time will become a community, a place like minded colleagues can share their views and ideas.”

The most widely read post on the AFA blog is:

Are you a true Project Manager?

Some of Alan’s favourites include these three:

PRINCE2 with UNIFIL in South Lebanon

Evaluating a P3O Initiative

Are you a true Project Manager?

Follow the AFA blog on Twitter @AFA_Alan, on LinkedIn and on Facebook.

Blog: http://www.afaprojects.com/blog/

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AFAblog

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EarthPM’s oft-mentioned slogan is “at the intersection of Green and Project Management,” a power-packed credo for two veteran project managers left with an indelible imprint on the importance of resource sustainability.

Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley have worked primarily as project management practitioners in their respective 30 years of field experience, and in launching EarthPM they both have undertaken a regular publication they describe as “part altruism, part business idea.” More than that, environment-oriented projects and sustainability tap into a growing concern in world economic growth and prosperity, giving that business idea an opportunity like never before. Rich says that project management principles remain central to the goals of EarthPM because of their closeness to the medium.

“We’re motivated to blog by news stories and other pm blogs,” Rich says. “Our site is devoted to the intersection of Project Management and “Green” – where green has to do with preventing climate change, preserving resources, and getting things done effectively and efficiently, which should already be flowing in the ‘green’ blood of any project manager worth their weight in risk registers.”

While they are unable to cite favourite posts or a most widely read post – “We have 125 posts, all with roughly equal readership” – they describe the blog in buzzwords that tap across all mediums affected by sustainable project management. Or – considering the buzzwords they used included “Eclectic”, “electric”, “executive-level”, “energizing”, and “engaging” – all the relevant ones that shared the same first letter as “EarthPM”!

You can follow EarthPM and Rich Maltzman on Twitter @RichEarthPM.

URL: http://earthpm.com/

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EarthPm

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Perspectives on Project Management is the blog from Learning Tree which started up in October 2009 to share accumulated knowledge & experience with the project management community.

Learning Tree International is a leading global provider of effective training to management, business and information technology professionals. Since the introduction of their first Project Management course in 1988, their curriculum has grown and evolved to include a full range of instruction for today’s project manager.

Blogging about twice a week, Perspectives on Project Management’s posts are provided by three of Learning Tree’s senior instructors. Learning Tree’s philosophy is to help Project Managers become complete project managers.  This involves many skills beyond the core competencies.  The blog aims to reflect this with posts on Leadership, Motivation & Communication in addition to posts on the core competencies. The Perspectives on Project Management blog is aimed at any current and aspiring managers.

The most popular post on the Perspectives blog;

Building a Business Analysis Work Plan

Learning Tree’s three posts which are their own personal favourites include:

PRINCE2 Management Products

Creating a Project Management Methodology – Define Your 4 Key Strategies

Protect Your Project Team: Be Politically Sensible

Learning Tree and Perspectives on Project Management blog can be followed on Twitter @LearningTree

Blog: http://project-management.learningtree.com/

RSS Feed: http://project-management.learningtree.com/feed/

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The Back from Red Blog, is a popular project management blog which brings together thirty years of program and project management experience from Todd C. Williams. Back from Red started in August 2009 and gains its title from Todd’s experience in recovering “red projects” .”From this experience, I have developed a process to make recoveries more efficient and prevent their reoccurrence.  This experience provides a wealth of knowledge on avoiding project failure.”

The Back From Red Blog focuses on the reasons for project failure.  The subjects range from technology to leadership, from teams to the individual.  They are intending to be thought provoking.  Each article is written to provide value to every reader.  Even if you do not agree with the content, the approach should make you think. The blog is not industry specific, although the examples are usually high-tech.

The Back from Red blog is aimed at VP and C Level Directors, Project Managers and team members. Todd shares his experience in weekly blog posts and enjoys the whole writing process including the research prior to each post, his blogging approach has brought many avid readers and fans.

Todd describes himself as focused on project audit and turn-around, he looks at projects that are failing or in trouble, identifies their real problems, drills down to the root causes and applies the corrective actions to get them moving again.  He saves organizations between 500,000 and three million dollars (US) per engagement.  Recently he signed a contract with AMACOM books to publish the book Back From Red: Recovering Failing Projects.  He wrote the book on project recovery.

Back from Red’s most popular blog piece to date:

Don’t be a Project Manager

And Todd’s top three personal favourites:

One More Project Team Member: The Doctor

Who Do You Trust

CIOs Are Fired For Failing to Provide Business Value

You can also follow Todd on Twitter: @BackFromRed

Blog: http://ecaminc.com/index.php/blog

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ecaminc/NUFf

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OnePlace is the blog for the American company of the same name, a small business solutions provider that focuses on improving the success of the individual through organisation features including proiject management, team management and collaboration, online communication and file sharing.

With three main collaborators on the blog (including OnePlace co-founders Steve Kickert and Denis Ahern, plus marketing manager Dana Larson), OnePlace publishes three posts a week at minimum. The blog originated in September 2008.

“We wanted to share updates about OnePlace with our customers, as well as educate people on the benefits of project management, online software and business organization,” said Larson.

“I like to share what I know about the benefits of project management about how businesses can succeed with the right tools and the right people. Our motto is ‘OnePlace – Successful People. Successful Business.’ We share tips, tools, ideas and resources for improving small business organisation and overall business success.”

“We believe that once the individual is successful, the business will be, too.”

Dana lists one particular post as OnePlace’s most widely read, 13 Ways to Increase Productivity and Get More Done. She also places 13 Ways among her three favourite articles. The other two include:

Collaborate for Success

Improve Communication and Manage Your Team For Success

They also have a pair of running features for their readership as a means to keep them abreast of project management news and developments.

“We try to highlight informative blog posts from the past week every Monday, and we share customer case studies on the 3rd Thursday of every month,” said Larson.

OnePlace is carving out a niche in the Social Media world at Twitter. You can find them at OnePlace.

URL: http://blog.oneplacehome.com/

RSS Feed: http://feeds.oneplacehome.com/OnePlaceBlog

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