Recent brain research in the area of cognitive dynamics is shedding new light on how we how we might change some of these ingrained habits to regain “Attention Density”. As we strive to change people and processes in our evolving organisations to take advantage of new business opportunities, we often fail to invest in training our talented staff in new ways to keep focus and gain traction in the execution of their tasks.
Also, where companies have a large portfolio of active projects requiring time-slices from the same shared pool of people-resources, few would realise the potential negative impact on business throughput and project failure that can occur without the support of a formally established Project Management Office (PMO).