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Day: September 13, 2021

Avoiding Project Failure With Focus HQ

How To Avoid Project Management Failure With These 6 Steps

Uncategorized on 13 Sep, 2021

James Esson

James Esson

Senior Business Development Executive
  • Over 20 years experience in successfully delivering complex infrastructure and IT projects
  • Mentoring, guiding and supporting organisations through change and continuous business improvement
  • Post graduate qualifications in Engineering, Project Management, Asset Management and Business
  • Experience in both Government and Private sector
Dr Bernard Terrill

Dr. Bernard Terrill

Chief Product Officer
  • 22 years at Accenture in business and technology transformation
  • Led successful delivery of $500m+ global transformation programs, peak team sizes over 1,500
Adrian Tyler

Adrian Tyler

CEO and Managing Director
  • Before joining Focus HQ, Adrian founded and successfully exited a Project Management services company with an international listed company, and held senior leadership roles with Tier 1 software companies, professional services and end user organization around the world.
  • Over 20 years of experience in leading enterprise-wide business transition projects and programs, establishing and running PMOs, and consulting to organisations around the world.
  • Master degree in Project Management, two Bachelor degrees in International Business and Information Systems and carries the PRINCE2 Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Portfolio, Programme, Project Office Practitioner (P3O) Project Management credentials.
  • Served as President of the Board of Directors for the Queensland chapter of the Project Management Institute and was a graduate of the Project Management Institute’s Global Leadership Institute Master Class.
Paul Woddy

Paul Woddy

EMEA Director
  • A leading figure in the world of Building Information Modelling and former employee of both the Revit Corporation and Autodesk.
  • Co-chair and editor of the AEC(UK) BIM Protocols.
  • Responsible for the strategic education of BIM-related technology and methodology for many of the worlds leading design and construction companies.
  • Author and trainer of trainers.
Richard Tooley

Richard Tooley

EMEA Director
  • Richard Tooley is a business outcomes focused Sales Director at White Frog Solutions and FHQ in the EMEA markets
  • Before Joining Focus HQ, Richard Co-Founded and built a SaaS based Start Up business in the AECM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Maintenance) industries which reached $80M in revenues within 7 years, delivering $20M of saving to its largest client in less than 24 months
  • 25 Years’ experience delivering data driven business solutions in Asset Management, Project Management, Managed PMO, Benefits Realisation and Data Visualisation solutions globally. It is all about how you manage Data!
Peter Routledge

Peter Routledge

EMEA Director
  • Construction professional, educator and author focused on innovative software solutions for the global construction sector
  • Over 25 years board level expertise managing leading international engineering software companies
  • Previous member of the British Standards Institute B/555 Construction design, modelling, and data exchange committee, BIM4SME (enabling BIM into small medium enterprises), and the BIM Academic Forum (universities exploring BIM requirements in curricula)
  • A National External Auditor on the BIM Manger program of the China National Centre for BIM Skills and Qualifications, National advisor/trainer to the Ethiopian Government (ECPMI) BIM group, and advisor to the BIM Institute South Africa
Rob Windle

Rob Windle

EMEA Director
  • Business transformation professional with 25 Years of experience in Financial Services working on large business transformation programmes in a variety of communication and leadership roles.
  • After several years at Barclays and Aviva he set up a Financial Crime prevention consultancy working with some to the biggest digital banks in the UK.
  • He has recently been focussing on delivering cutting edge technology solutions for a wide variety of clients incorporating both process improvement and AI.

Peter Williams

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Cooper

Founder and Principal Consultant
  • Bought and sold businesses worth $50m
  • Built and managed a global project management company to annual revenues of $20m

Vilma Aranza

Consultant
  • 20+ years IT experience including Shared Services senior management with Tier 1 global organisations
  • Specialist in Service Delivery, Project Management and Vendor Management
  • Seasoned IT Professional/ Service Delivery across countries including Philippines, Singapore, USA & Japan

Deo Viray

Engineer
  • 2 years of experience as Software Engineer

Hernan Romano

Senior Engineer
  • Obtained over 20 I.T. certifications and worked for a Public USA Company in the banking industry with a Market Capital of more than 13 billion USD and 2K employees.
  • Guided multidisciplinary teams of up to 25 people in short, medium and long-term Telecommunications projects with budgets of up to 1 million USD

Steve Merriel

Head of Engineering
  • Over 10 years experience in engineering of complex data rich systems and applications
  • Board member and head of digital transformation for an Australian charity

John O’Connor

Chief Strategy and Investment Officer
  • CxO in 4 startups in Australia and the USA building leads from $0 to $60m
  • National industry lead at Hewlett Packard with $100m in annual targets for new and installed business

Hein Nguyen

Head of Architecture

Grant Merriel

Founder and Product Evangelist
  • 10 Years of business consulting and digital project to Australian and International businesses
  • Mapped and automated project reporting, net budgeting and benefit reporting for portfolio’s delivering over $100m of value

Babak Mahmoudy

Senior Engineer
  • 10 years scaling up Australian startups
  • Managed production environments for complex applications involving millions of users, hundreds of servers and terabytes of data under demanding operational requirements
  • Programming from age 6 and not stopping any time before 66

Sheila Esmas

Head of Support
  • Leader of global support services
  • Collaboration driver across support services and product development teams
  • Client design advisory and support
  • Project implementation specialist

Ben Brabazon

Organisational Change Management Lead
  • Thirteen years of organisational change management experience leading and implementing transformational change to operating models, structures, processes, technologies, and cultures in a range of industries and complex operating environments.
  • Expertise in designing, co-creating, and delivering fit-for-purpose organisational change management strategies and plans to maximise adoption and business benefits.

Clark Bickford

Delivery Lead
  • Portfolio and Project Management delivery across multiple technology platforms and methodologies
  • Significant experience in Enterprise system implementations including Oracle and SAP
  • Solution design and robotic automation
  • Business Process improvement design

Sebastian Gadaleta

Chief Operating Officer
  • Harnessing 20 years of delivering complex business change across global environments to enable organisations to realise strategic outcomes
  • Executive business transformational advisory
  • Value driven approach to deliver optimal operational effectiveness
  • Igniting organisational culture as the most effective driver of performance

Rod Kerger

Chief Commercial Officer
  • 30 years at Accenture in business strategy and global leadership
  • Managed $500m annual account budget and a $250m industry segment

Mario Tieppo

Chief Digital & Business Transformation Officer
  • A Board and C Level Executive Advisor, specialising in organisational change and digital transformation
  • Spent 30+ years focussed on business value outcomes

Edward Mandla

Advisory Board Director
  • Politician and businessman, ex-Councillor for the City of Sydney
  • Spent over two decades in the information technology and executive search industries

Renee Bath

Delivery Lead
  • Project Management, including Asset Management planning and 10 year financial forecasting experience
  • Business transformation driven Implementation specialist
  • Complex system integration and configuration delivery
  • Business process analysis and design thought leader

Francheska Beltran-Cvetkova

Data Scientist
  • Holds a Master’s degree in Project Management
  • Specialization in Data Interpretation, Analytics, Modeling and Visualization
  • Expertise in PowerBI Report development

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State Of Matter

Proudly Australian designed and owned product leveraging the founder’s extensive background in program delivery. High quality and great value for money compared to the market, taking the guesswork out of program delivery, highly recommended.

Leigh Parsons
State of Matter
Novita

Focus HQ has been our preferred PPM Business Partner for the past 4 years. They have provided a 1st class product and service to help us better understand and deliver projects and services to our customers. The greatest value is in the simplicity of the solution from implementation, operational use and support. This has ensured that even with minimal Project Management experience, my staff have been able to better manage and optimise their own portfolios of work. I highly recommend Focus HQ as a serious option for managing business programmes of work regardless of size and complexity.

Greg Ward
Novita
Mined Over Matter

Having experienced many project tools over my career, when I first encountered FHQ I knew I had discovered something new, different, and important. Unlike other tools, the unique simplicity and design of the FHQ platform means it is suitable and valuable for all projects and teams, from the very small to the very large. It provides critical early warning transparency for all initiatives including most importantly on the delivery of the business outcomes promised in the business case. It was for these reasons we at MinedOverMatter selected FHQ as our platform of choice to support our mission of helping our clients deliver their portfolios, programs and project initiatives and achieving their expected outcomes.

Bhavana Murjani
MinedOverMatter
JLB Yaran

Focus HQ has professionalised the project management capability JLB-Yaran delivers to our clients in the Defence sector. The PPM framework provides our clients with confidence in our ability to deliver outcomes-focused results, through transparency and clarity in reporting. The agility of this software to manage our diverse portfolios differently, with tailored project templates and portfolio structures meeting our specific needs, gives JLB-Yaran an advantage in a competitive industry

Hayden Surrao
JLB-Yarran
Counterpart Solutions

We believe portfolios are established to achieve strategic objectives. In our experience, the hallmark of successful portfolios is the focus on collaboration and accountability to achieve portfolio program and project delivery success. Focus HQ provides an easy to use yet comprehensive PPM tool that provides a clear line of sight from portfolio to project health to ensure all members of the portfolio team are working together to deliver the portfolio outcomes, through project successes.

Wayne Welcome
Counterpart Solutions

As a project manager running multiple engagements in parallel, one of the biggest benefits of Focus HQ was that all the elements to run a successful project were in one place and collaboratively produced a well laid out and accurate project status report containing all the elements and members of the team could go and update real-time. In contrast, the other project had a spreadsheet for financials, separate tasks board for tasks, PowerPoint for status reports and emails to track actions. Although both were successful projects, FocusHQ cut my daily admin time back significantly and everything was in a consistent format.

Bridget L
Global Data Provider
Axis Partners

The FHQ platform has valuable project management practices embedded, is user friendly, simple and intuitive. It enables us to optimise and achieve superior results from our delivery efforts, including maximising the value delivered to our customers. We receive speedy and quality support from the FHQ team. We recommend FHQ as the platform for any organisations that needs to maximise the outcomes of their governance programs, change initiatives and projects.

Nicole Stafford
Axia Partners

AusNet Services used FHQ to manage it’s Cost Out program with over 200 initiatives from across the enterprise.

Cost Out Program
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Asia Group

FHQ consistently provides early warnings of areas requiring attention, allowing correction before they spiral out of control, and thereby has allowed us to stay on schedule and budget, whilst allowing my team to consistently deliver high-quality results. Most importantly we all find the platform simple and easy to use and I have personally observed how it elevated our project management abilities and discipline. I highly recommend FHQ to my executive colleagues and friends. There is none like it in the market today!

Jun D. Lasco
The-Asiagroup.com Inc.
Craig Bull

The reason we used Focus HQ was their proven success and the strength and robustness of the tool.

Craig Bull
Program Director

Through the combination of a simple to use the product as well as a responsive, first-class delivery partner we were able to provide leadership with a comprehensive view on the status all business projects managed through the FocusHQ tool. I would highly recommend businesses considering Focus HQ capability when reviewing a solution to help you better manage your portfolio of business projects

Sarah Sorenson
Asahi Beverage

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