Reading PM Network Front to Back

From the PM Network Blog
by Cameron McGaughy, Aaron Smith, Deryn Zakielarz, Jill Diffendal

PM Network is the award-winning magazine for members of the Project Management Institute. This blog will highlight some of the publication's valuable information and insights, keeping you up to date on industry trends.

Generational PM | Human Resources | Social Responsibility | show all posts

About this Blog

RSS

View Posts By:

Cameron McGaughy
Aaron Smith
Deryn Zakielarz
Jill Diffendal

Past Contributors:

Dan Goldfischer
cyndee miller

Categories

2016 PMI Project of the Year, 2016 PMO of the Year, 2017 PMI Project of the Year, 2018 PMI Project of the Year, agile, aging, airports, Arctic, Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality, automation, awards, banking, battery storage, Best Practices, BIM, books, Boston, brain, Brexit, career, Career Development, career management, careers, Caribbean, change, China, cities, clothing, cohesion, communication, Complexity, Construction, contingency, creativity, crowd control, customer centricity, customers, Decision Making, design thinking, digital technologies, digital transformation, digitization, disabled, disagreements, Disruption, disruption, disruptive technologies, Energy, engagement, entrepreneurs, feedback, fintech, fitness industry, focused data, gender, Generation Z, Generational PM, Getting It Done, Government, groceries, Healthcare, Human Aspects of PM, Human Resources, hurricanes, Inclusion, Information Technology, initiation, Innovation, innovations, integration, job interviews, jobs, KPI, law firms, Leadership, Legal Project Management, Lessons Learned, marathon projects, medical tourism, megaprojects, Mentoring, Milan, mining, Monte Carlo analysis, nanotechnology, Nigeria, organizational agility, outsourcing, Panama Canal, passive candidates, perspectives, PM & the Economy, PM Network, PMI Project of the Year, PMO, PMO, PMO of the Year, polls, professional development, Program Management, public-private partnerships, rail, railroads, real estate, references, renewables, resumes, retail, risk, risk management, risks, robotics, salary, schedule, schedule compression, schedules, scope creep, silk road, Social Responsibility, sponsors, stalled projects, standardized projects, startups, strategy, Sustainability, talent, Talent Management, talent shortage, Teams, Tech, Technology, technology, technology trends, Telecommunications, terrorism, The Project Economy, transformation, uncertainty, Virtual events, virtual reality, voice-assistant technology, women, Women in PM

Date

Categories: brain, clothing, disabled, medical tourism, Nigeria, railroads

I’m a little biased, but I think PM Network is a great read from the Table of Contents on page 1 all the way to the “Closing Thoughts” interview on page 72. The feature articles, including this month’s story on telecoms transforming to keep up with skyrocketing data consumption, are great. But in this post, I’m going to focus on the Edge section.

Edge provides quick reads on some of the most interesting projects coming in the near future, as well as important trends you need to know about. The October PM Network Edge section starts with a rendering and description of Beijing’s forthcoming civic center. It’s not many cities that put a sledding hill on top of their new buildings.

From there, Edge goes to the brain, and projects to link thoughts with digital devices. Previously, brain-computer interface projects focused on ways to restore sight, hearing and mobility. New projects will deal with self-driving vehicles and security applications such as passwords. But will computers be able to read your mind?

Edge goes around the world to point out projects in the booming medical tourism space. It then zeroes in on Nigeria, where financial technology (fintech) projects are expected to ramp up. And it reports on growth in the freight railroad sector and innovation in designing and producing clothing for disabled people.

What insights did you get from this month’s Edge? Please share in the comments.

Posted by Dan Goldfischer on: October 02, 2017 11:16 AM | Permalink