Webinar - 23rd September
13:00PM - 14:00PM, 23 September 2010
Location: Webinar
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Michel Thiry - PMI Fellow, Author and PMI SeminarsWorld® Leader
Imagine the day your CEO is a PM - The future of Project-Based Organisations.
The Situation
“How can we unleash the potential of Project Management for organisations?”
When asked this question at the Milan PMI EMEA Global Congress 2010, Greg Balestrero, the CEO of PMI, answered: “Projects, programs and portfolio need to be seen as a whole, not as discrete areas of the business and to be truly effective, portfolio management should cover all business activities, not just projects.”
And now what?
- How can we integrate projects, programs, portfolios and PMOs within organisations to make them more competitive?
- How will it affect your project space and your roles and responsibilities as practitioners?
The Webinar
We will first examine how the current business environment confirms the need for project-based organisations to be better integrated. We will then see how a project approach can help organisations and how it affects knowledge, skills and attitude requirements of project, program portfolio or PMO managers. Finally, we will look at how organisations can successfully integrate all the project disciplines and create a cohesive management approach to deal with the current turbulent business environment.
Learning Objectives
When the session is completed, the participants will understand:
- How project management is more and more integrated in organisations
- How this trend requires a rethinking of the whole project approach
- How this can contribute to making organisations more competitive
- How it will change the way you manage your project, program, portfolio or PMO.
Presenters Bio:
Michel THIRY, PMP, MSc, FAPM, PMI Fellow, Managing Partner Valense Ltd.
Michel Thiry has over 35 years worldwide professional experience and has worked in many cultural environments. He graduated as an architect and has worked on a number of major construction projects for over 20 years. For the last 15 years, Michel has provided his expertise to major organizations, in various fields, including construction, financial, pharmaceutical, IT and IS, telecom, water treatment, transportation (air and rail), local government and others.
Following a fruitful career in construction, he has now focused on combining his Value, Project and Program Management expertise to organizational issues. He is recognized as a worldwide authority in strategic applications of project, program and value. He has supported the development and implementation of a number of strategic programs for large multinational organizations, including their restructuring as Project-Based Organizations (PBO). He is a regular Keynote Speaker for major International events and Seminar Leader for PMI® SeminarsWorld since 2001.
He has written and lectured widely in International forums, both at the Academic and Practice levels. In addition to his book “Value Management Practice”, published by the PMI®, he has written a number of book chapters on Value, Program and Portfolio Management in prominent PM books like the Gower “Handbook of project management” 3rd and 4th editions and the “Wiley Guide to Managing Projects”, published by Wiley. Gower Publishing is publishing his new book on Program Management in July 2010 and has commissioned him to write a book on Project-Based Organizations.
Michel has obtained an MSc in Organizational Behaviour with the School of Management and Organizational Behaviour at the University of London and is currently pursuing a PhD at Middlesex University on Creating Value in Project-Based Organizations. In 2006 he was elected PMI Fellow for his continued contribution to project management and in 2007 he was nominated Fellow of the Association for Project Management. In 2008, he was awarded a Life Achievement Award by the Canadian Society of Value Analysis.
