Recently The Well Engineering Group a global leader in a gas exploration worked with Hyde Park Solutions and Oracle to strengthen its market leading position. They wanted better data with more proactive tracking and management of top quartile well performance and HHSE statistics and issues. At the same time they needed to optimise well and rig schedules through the entire life cycle of any exploration opportunity.

Portfolio Management looks at the bigger picture, it takes in the high-level view of all the projects an organisation is running in order to meet the business’s main strategic objectives – this is the company’s portfolio. This could include every project across the entire company or be broken down to cover the projects in just a division or a department.

Successful executive and managerial reporting for successful reporting it is vital to have a framework for translating your company’s business strategy into specific, actionable metrics. Reporting metrics is all important for monitoring your achievement of strategy. But prior to this it is vital to select the right investments to ensure you have a chance of attaining your strategic objectives.

The regulation of some industries like telecoms, energy and other network or utility industries is of huge economic, social and political importance. But what should the relationship between the government and utility/network regulators look like?

For much of the year we would not recommend taking work home as quality R&R is vital to productivity. But if you have been stressing about organising the family holiday it can always help to apply some of the principles of quality Project Management.

The only sure thing about Brexit at the moment is that there is not much clarity, but for more general Portfolio and Project Management we do not expect that there will be any immediate review or change to the complex matrix of laws and regulations that govern the activities of businesses based in the UK.