Over the last few years, Practicus has been witnessing a remarkable and sustained increase in its permanent recruitment services. Focussing on senior and specialist positions, the team have delivered growth of more than threefold over the last four years.
PMOs are vital in ensuring that projects stay on track efficiently, and effectively. Trust our PMO expertise & tools to keep everything in one place & maximise productivity, productivity and ensuring alignment with your organisation’s goals.
Over the last few years, Practicus has been witnessing a remarkable and sustained increase in its permanent recruitment services. Focussing on senior and specialist positions, the team have delivered growth of more than threefold over the last four years.
We are thrilled to announce that Practicus has made the Top 5 of the Institute of Interim Management (IIM) Survey 2023. Making it not just for the first, second or third time, but for the seventh consecutive year!
Discover the benefits of hiring an interim manager for your startup. Get flexible and affordable expertise in sales, marketing, finance, HR, and more, exactly when you need it.
A quick run through some of the tech innovations shaping our lives since King Charles was born.
Practicus celebrates leap in 2023’s Best Workplace rankings, highlighting our dedication to employee wellbeing and exceptional work culture
Getting ready for CQC inspection framework changes with interim professional support to avoid all the pitfalls that can impact your ratings.
How to tackle inflation for businesses. Key themes and takeaways from our webinar Webinar in March 2023.
When supporting clients through business change, the role of account management cannot be overstated.
For interim management, 2023 is shaping up to be a great year for women in leadership.
Practicus publishes candidate diversity report on the last 12 months of placements.
Practicus Healthcare team is counting down to Christmas with an Advent Calendar, highlighting innovations and news from the past year that may not have got the attention we feel it
What is executive interim management? How does it differ from vanilla interim management, and how does it compare with Executive Search?
Interim manager meaning? As with so many things, the meaning is heavily dependent on the context. But in all cases, ‘interim manager’ means a person charged with conducting…
How do you measure the ROI? If you want to bring it down to ‘brass tacks’, the ROI of an interim manager is easier to calculate than it is for many permanent positions.
By Practicus – 30th August 2022 Our Health and Social Care team has grown so we can help more of our clients get access to our exceptional network of talented interims
Interim managers provide a unique set of benefits and advantages due to their individual experience and expertise and the nature of the contracting method.
Why a marketing reset is needed and how potential barriers can be overcome. Here we outline the path and the benefits of using an Interim expert with tried and tested experience of delivering results.
What is an interim manager role? With so much variety in the work of interim’s and their uses by clients, we look at defining the role they play in the modern workplace.
Experienced Managers retiring from the NHS are increasingly seeking interim roles offering the flexibility in work engagement they couldn’t enjoy before.
What is an interim manager? It seems to be one of the most misunderstood terms in the hiring world. It involves some of the most senior, trusted and capable talent available. Yet many HR and Procurement functions have a habit of treating it like they do unskilled temporary recruitment.
The need for workforce action could not be more acute. This includes the need to transform the way the NHS delivers patient care, empowers its people and cares for their wellbeing.
The need for workforce action could not be more acute. This includes the need to transform the way the NHS delivers patient care, empowers its people and cares for their wellbeing.
By Practicus 19th May 2022. Our account managers are there to provide a deeper level of collaboration – to live and breath your values, convey your purpose and give additional support
Practicus is pleased to announce that we have been recognised at the Best Workplaces Awards 2022. Officially Practicus is now the 57th best small workplace in the UK.1 This follows
Considerations from the past to help make integrating social care and healthcare in the new NHS ICS structures eaiser
We’ve attempted to climb the endless mountain of Google’s PMO questions to bring you the very peak of stupid when it comes to PMO queries. And then, rather foolishly, we’ve attempted to answer them.
This story charts the experience of how an Interim helped an independent healthcare provider adopt a digital transformation programme to propel its long-term growth strategy.
The most common reason why PMO as a Service is chosen is because the existing PMO has lost its way or does not yet exist. But there are plenty of other reasons too.
This story charts the experience of how an Interim helped an independent healthcare provider adopt a digital transformation programme to propel its long-term growth strategy.
Each year, Practicus, like many other organisations and people around the world celebrates March 8th as International Women’s Day (IWD), but how did this commemoration come about and why on this particular day?
Addressing health inequalities is again becoming a high-priority challenge at national level – and as a society, the growing divergence in rich-poor life expectancy should arguably concern us all.
As someone who places senior interim executives into companies, I often find that many still have a mythological fear about choosing interims for their big change programmes. It is partly
We are more than a little bit excited – to make the inaugural list of best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK
PSIRF is a new system for investigating or reviewing patient safety incidents, to improve patient safety and develop a. culture of learning
Practicus is delighted to announce that its “Covid-19 Vaccine Programme – Estates, Equipment, Consumables & Logistics (EECL) Workstream” has been shortlisted for Best Estates Optimisation Project at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2022.
You have heard of agile project management and software development. But have you heard of agile transformation? An executive overview of agile transformation with real-world examples by Practicus community member, Tim Lake.
Finding the right interim manager for your business needs is critical. To ensure you can effectively identify and qualify the right calibre of individual, you should build a business case with clear objectives and deliverables.
There are lots of benefits to working as an Interim, but despite all of the positives, by their nature short-term roles can also be very challenging. Below are some of the comments reported from our own interims.
PSIRF is a new system for investigating or reviewing patient safety incidents, to improve patient safety and develop a. culture of learning
We are proud to have supported the NHS with key Interim Consultants with critical supply chain skills and project leadership experience. Here we take a look at some of the big challenges.
Remote working provides flexible work arrangements for hired workers but also presents a set of challenges for employers, which can easily be managed with the right technology and the right organisational culture.
You have heard of agile project management and software development. But have you heard of agile transformation? An executive overview of agile transformation with real-world examples by Practicus community member, Tim Lake.
NHS proposals to redesign the 4-hour A&E waiting list performance target into 10 granular metrics. The pros and concerns.
From blood tests to imaging the NHS is making these more accessible away from hospitals. Exploring how embedding diagnostic capabilities deeper into local community centres can improve the NHS’s ability to discover and treat health issues more rapidly.
Andrew Vaux – Head of Independent Healthcare , Practicus 2020 is the first year that IHPN has run its industry barometer survey to take the temperature of the independent healthcare
We have been working with the NHS for more than 15 years to deliver skilled and experienced Interims for leadership positions. Our experts help the NHS navigate change. We connect
It’s high up the agenda in nearly every Boardroom – what does return to work look like? The spectrum of strategies is well represented, from the ‘presenteeism’ of Goldman Sachs to the ‘WFH 4ever’ of Twitter.
During the pandemic, some PMOs are thriving whilst others are exposing flaws and weaknesses. Here are the six things that separate them.
The PMO at its conception had a very simple purpose, one that remains as true today as it did back then. Over the PMO’s history, has the world lost sight of it?
Andrew Vaux – Head of Independent Healthcare , Practicus It was an invitation only ‘virtual’ Roundtable for leaders within Independent Health to explore how as a sector it could work
In the second Webinar of our ‘Accelerated Change’ series, we examine how successful leaders leverage ambiguity to their advantage. In an increasingly complex environment where events outside of our control
This is the controversial conclusion reached by author Catherine Hayes in her recently released book, Transition Leadership, Navigating the Complexities of Change. For many in the world of Change and
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For many commentators COVID-19 has not changed the future, it has simply brought it forward. Surpassing trend predictions are remote working, online collaboration and process automation to name but a
Find out more about Ask The Community Find out more about the Practicus community more broadly
Find out more about Ask The Community Find out more about the Practicus community more broadly
With collaboration between Healthcare systems in response to COVID-19 at an all-time high, we hosted a Webinar today to look at how the impetus for integrated change can be sustained and enhanced as we imagine the future of healthcare in the UK.
When Transformation Leader, Liz Eckert was grappling with the challenge on how to measure need, ahead of making recommendations on where to position urgent treatment services for a West Country
The Data Files explores the rapidly evolving world of data, information and people.
A light-hearted limited series hosted by Barry Panayi (Chief Data Officer at John Lewis Partnership) and Tony Cassin-Scott (ex-CIO & CDO, now Advisor). They chat with some of the minds responsible for the past, present and future of the development of the data space and explore what’s worked, what’s not worked, and what the future might hold – both for organisations and for the data profession itself.
The PMO podcast is a four part series exploring the often under-looked role of project and programme management offices in realising a business strategy and delivering successful change and transformation.
Hosted by Practicus Co-Founder, Boyd Kershaw, the show seeks to champion the cause of PMO, to articulate what good looks like and change the way people look at the PMO as a function.
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