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Where each delivery discipline is heading, and what has to change to get there.
Next Gen PMO: Reimagining Tomorrow
Martin Paver
What the PMO becomes once data, automation and AI change what a delivery organisation can see. Covers the shift in governance, performance management and the PMO operating model, with the practical steps to get there.
For PMO leads
Next Gen Assurance
From assurance theatre to systemic confidence
Why review gates keep missing the things that matter, and how to rebuild assurance around evidence and live signals instead of paperwork. Part of the Next Generation series covering risk, governance and cost.
For assurance and governance leads
Next Gen Risk Management
Martin Paver
Risk registers describe what a room could agree on months ago. This looks at what changes when risk is drawn from delivery data rather than workshops — how estimating, contingency and escalation shift once you can see how similar projects actually behaved.
For risk and controls leads
How to make it happen
What actually blocks change inside delivery organisations, and how to get past it.
Project Cognition
Martin Paver
Projects rarely fail because yesterday’s data was wrong. They fail because early signals fragment, soften as they move through governance, and lose their link to the assumptions underneath the work. A case for treating delivery as a cognitive problem, not a reporting one.
For delivery directors
Project Data Analytics: The Senior Leader's Playbook
Martin Paver, with Capgemini’s former Global Head of Data and AI
Most organisations investing in analytics, automation and AI are struggling to turn promise into practice. This playbook names the barriers — cultural drag, supplier misalignment, fragile workflows, overreliance on a few people who can read weak signals — and sets out how senior leaders break through them.
For executive sponsors
Where shall we send them?
Next Gen Risk Management
Next Generation Risk Management provides a critical examination of traditional risk management approaches in light of the transformative impacts of data and artificial intelligence. It argues that the standard methodologies are increasingly inadequate for addressing the complexities of today’s project environments, which are defined by rapid technological advancements and a dynamic risk landscape.
Next Gen PMO: Reimagining Tomorrow
Next Gen PMO explores the future of project management offices, showing how innovation, data, and strategic insight are transforming the way organisations deliver projects. Martin Paver shares practical guidance and forward-looking perspectives to help PMO leaders drive impact and stay ahead in a rapidly changing landscape.
Discover how next-generation PMOs are rethinking governance, optimising performance, and enabling organisations to succeed in complex environments.
Download your copy today to see how you can lead the PMO of tomorrow.
Project Cognition
Project Data Analytics: Senior Leader's Playbook
Major organisations everywhere are investing in project data analytics, automation and AI, yet most are struggling to turn promise into practice. We have seen this first-hand. Martin has spent more than a decade helping delivery teams embed data-enabled methods inside complex programmes. Paul, as the former Global Head of Data and AI for Capgemini, has watched global organisations face the same barriers: cultural drag, supplier misalignment, fragile workflows and an overreliance on individuals to interpret weak signals.
This playbook is written to help senior leaders break through those barriers. Download now to get started.
Next Gen Assurance: From Assurance Theatre To Systemic Confidence
In an era of technological transformation and growing project complexity, traditional project management approaches are struggling to keep pace. This book, Next Generation Project Assurance, reimagines these disciplines within the broader series of “Next Generation” guides, designed to transform project delivery functions across domains, from risk and assurance to governance and cost management
