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This document discusses career choices and advice from Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton of Gold Heron Ltd. It provides examples of the types of clients and industries they have worked with in project management. The document then discusses a situation where a project manager was brought in to help investigate fraud cases that were taking an average of 7 years to complete. The project manager identified fundamental flaws and an alternative solution that enabled the fraud cases to be completed in an average of 2 years. The document concludes by discussing Gold Heron Ltd's latest courageous career choice to create a mastery program in extraordinary project management.

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Extraordinary Project Management
for IWD
Courageous career choices
© Gold Heron Ltd 2019
Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton

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How do we know?.....we’re project people
and here are some of our clients
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Printing
Publishing
Telecomms
Airlines
Financial sector
Manufacturing
AgChem /
Pharma
Public Sector
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My expectation of a career path
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Start
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My actual career path
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Brick walls or opportunities?
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Advice about qualifications ….
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➢ Do an accounting qualification – it opens doors
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Advice about making decisions…..
➢ Don’t dither
➢ If you really don’t care about the outcome time will decide
for you
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Advice about career choices …..
➢ Things always turn out for the best because you will never
know what would have happened if you took another path
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Advice about your actions…..
➢ You can’t control where the ripples will land you can only
control your intention when you throw the stone into the
water
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We can all make intentional choices....
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➢ Know your needs and balance
them
➢ If you fall off, you can get back
up again – with a support team
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Be true to yourself
➢ Know yourself and your values
➢ Be clear about your boundaries
➢ Be courageous wisely
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
➢ Each case averaged 7 years
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
➢ Each case averaged 7 years
➢ AHA!! IT system
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
➢ Each case averaged 7 years
➢ AHA!! IT system
➢ 5 years later.......
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
➢ Each case averaged 7 years
➢ AHA!! IT system
➢ 5 years later.......
➢ Bring in a PM
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Situation
➢ Investigation of fraud
➢ Massive volume of documents
➢ Each case averaged 7 years
➢ AHA!! IT system
➢ 5 years later.......
➢ Bring in a PM
➢ Fundamental flaw!!!
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Outcome
➢ Director accepted
analysis
➢ Alternative solution
identified
➢ Ran procurement
➢ New system enabled
new structure
➢ Empowered teams
➢ Case duration reduced to
2 years
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And that lead to the UK Passport......
➢ Design, Manufacture and Personalisation Service
➢ 3 factories operating to contracted levels of 10m passports
per annum
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➢ service transition ‘without missing the beat of a heart’
➢ £4m building refurbishment
➢ £40m new equipment
➢ delivery team of 120+ people
➢ 2 year project but with only 15
months to deliver
➢ huge penalties for missing start
date
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Our latest courageous career choice
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Extraordinary
Project
Management
A mastery
programme for
people who work
on extraordinary
projects
© Gold Heron Ltd 2019

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