Why organisations fail at project management

Organisations today recognise the value of effective project management, but many are still failing in this area. Tom Mochal draws on his consulting and training experience to offer his top five reasons failure can occur

Generally speaking, all companies and organisations are trying to get better at project management. (In other words, there aren’t any organisations that are purposely trying to get worse at project management.) Though they may not be able to articulate it, organisations recognise that there is value associated with being able to manage projects more effectively.

Why then, are so many organisations still so bad at project management? What is keeping most organisations from being able to effectively manage projects? Having pondered this on many consulting and training engagements, I have ranked my top five reasons below. See if you can pick out the reasons why your organisation falls short in implementing good project-management discipline.

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