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Earlier this year the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, suggested that if the Conservative Party were to form the next Government they will put a cap on project size of £100m.

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An article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) entitled "Don’t Just Capture Knowledge - Put it to Work" begins 

“What’s the point of capturing organisational knowledge if it’s going to be tossed in some file and forgotten? That’s all too often what happens to lessons from post-mortems and after action reviews.”

Given the research which indicates some 70% of the projects are regarded as failures, this suggests that the lessons analysis undertaken by organisations like the NAO and Audit Commission are simply filed and forgotten.

In previous articles we examined a Learning Project Organisation. The first step in creating such an organisation is to put in place processes for capturing lessons learned. Many organisations may have an internal knowledge base or specific tools for knowledge capture - the important thing is that they are structured and used in a manner that creates value for the project delivery organisation.

To avoid the

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