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… there is a strong community feeling and the passions of the givers are genuine. “We can achieve more by giving together than we can by giving alone“, is tangible.
Read Tom’s article in The Guardian Professional. Former MP Tom Levitt is author of Gower’s Partners for Good
Gerald Bradley author of Gower’s Benefit Realisation Management recently conducted a webinar for The International Institute of Business Analysis titled – Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change. You can take a look at this webinar and other expert offerings from the IIBA at their website.
Antonio Nieto Rodriguez is author of The Focused Organization published by Gower, and an expert in strategy execution and project management. He currently works with BNP Paribas as Head of Transversal Portfolio Management. Previously he was Head of Post Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, and Global Lead Practitioner for the Project and Portfolio Management practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a visiting professor to the MBA courses at Solvay, and Nyenrode Business Schools where he teaches strategy execution and program management; a founder member of the PMI European Corporate Council; and an active speaker and presenter on strategy execution and project portfolio management. Here is his speaker schedule for May/June:
22 May 2012 - ’The Focused Organization at Solvay Business School – Brussels.
13 June 2012 – PMI London Chapter meeting (Thomson Reuters) – London.
19 June 2012 – Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit – London, UK
26 June 2012 – European PMO Symposium 2012 – Berlin
A free case study chapter can be downloaded at: www.gowerpublishing.com/focusedorganization
Gower author Sharon De Mascia will be speaking on Effectively Managing Stress in the Workplace at the Health & Safety: Changing Perceptions Exhibition and Conference in Manchester 6-7 March. It is organised by IOSH the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. Sharon De Mascia is a Chartered Business Psychologist and an HR/HRD professional. She is Prince2 qualified and has 20 years experience of delivering change management and other organisational initiatives across both public and private sectors. She is the author of Project Psychology: Using Psychological Models and Techniques to Create a Successful Project.
A LinkedIn group has recently been formed for Project Sponsors. It has grown to 559 members in two months and has, in the opinion of Gower author David West, the most vibrant discussions of any group he has seen. Some of the topics are now spilling across into the APM group.
A common theme he observes is the availability (or lack of it) of a project sponsor and how detrimental a sponsor’s absence is to a project. Even when project sponsors are present, there seem to be few commentators impressed with their level of project knowledge or ability.
David has written an article on this subject of the Elusive Project Sponsor on Wellingtone’s PM Blog.
David West is author of Project Sponsorship, published by Gower.
In their most recent e-link newsletter, the UK PMI discused the idea of producing a top 10 list of PM books. If you are a member of the UK PMI and have a favourite few that you use when you need to check something out, please let them know at service@pmi.org. Please title your e-mail “Favourite PM book”. They will collate them and produce the PMI UK members top 10. We hope we will see some Gower Project Management titles amongst them! Our expert authors are drawn from the most respected academic institutions and industries worldwide – but here are three Gower classics to get the ball rolling!
Project Management 9thEdition by Dennis Lock, Global Project Management by Jean Binder and Critical Chain by Eli Goldratt:
Which books would you choose?
Most projects have two factors in common i.e. they involve people and they bring about change. These two factors are fundamental to the success of any project yet they are given only scant reference in the ‘models’ of project management.
The psychology of managing people and change is increasingly emerging as a significant success factor in project management. In Wellingtone’s Project Management Blog Sharon De Mascia offers a plan to ensure you pay these factors sufficient attention.
Sharon De Mascia is the Director of a business psychology consultancy by the name of ‘Cognoscenti’. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a member of the Chartered Institute of People and Development. She is also Prince2 qualified. She is a visiting Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and a Supervisor on the global MBA at Manchester Business School. De Mascia is the author of Project Psychology published by Gower.
Karen E. Klein is a Los Angeles-based writer who covers entrepreneurship and small-business issues. She features advice from experts in her twice-weekly ’Smart Answers’ columns in Businessweek. In December she featured Gower author Daphne Halkias on her book Father-Daughter Succession in Family Business: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
In the Column, Klein points out that family-owned companies account for 80 percent of all businesses worldwide, and about one-third of them are owned by women. Although recent research and census data shows that daughters and wives are increasingly taking over family businesses, few studies have been done on the process.Daphne Halkias is a social science researcher at Cornell University and senior research fellow at the Center for Young & Family Enterprise at the University of Bergamo in Italy, and is seeking to address this in her new book.
With more women taking over family-owned companies, the handover isn’t always smooth, Halkias seeks to illuminate the process of father-daughter succession around the globe and find ways to encourage it. Edited excerpts of their conversation are featured in Klein’s Column.
Daphne Halkias is also editor of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, and has a number of forthcoming titles at Gower.
Gower, in association with The Lazy Project Manager, APM PMOSIG, the National Centre for Project Management, BOT International and Project Magazine, announce the PMO Leader of the Year Award
The Award will be presented to the PMO Leader, nominated by their PMO team, who shows the most excellent leadership and understanding of what a PMO can deliver to a business. A panel of independent judges will review all submissions to consider how each nominee has led their PMO over at least the last 12 months and how they plan to grow the PMO under their stewardship in the coming months.
For full details, list of judges and entry criteria please go to www.gowerpublishing.com/pmoleader
Gower Author Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez will be speaking at CA World 2011 on: ‘Demand and Portfolio Management: From Ideas through Implementation at BNP Paribas Fortis.’
Nieto-Rodriguez explains how BNP Paribas Fortis came to understand that to remain competitive they had to optimize their project selection and project execution capabilities. He covers how they turned ideas about development and improvement into reality, complying with external constraints, renewing assets and establishing new projects. He discusses why BNP Paribas Fortis chose to implement Demand Management and Portfolio Management software and shares lessons learned. He includes, how they overcame: – resistance from the different entities on new processes; poor quality of project data; disconnect between the regular budgeting cycle and the portfolio management – and low maturity in terms of capacity management. The session would be useful for for both CA Clarity PPM users, and those considering the use of PPM.
CA World ’11, Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 13-16, 2011
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is author of the forthcoming Gower Project Management title The Focused Organization.
