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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
The PM National Conference will take place in Ireland on April 19th 2012.
Gower author Michel Thiry will be presenting in Track 1 on Re-dimensioning the Project Management Space and in Track 2 on Program Management Practice in a Business Context.
Michel Thiry is author of Program Management published by Gower part of the Fundamentals of Project Management Series Edited by Professor Darren Dalcher.
Politics. Every project has politics. In a Girl’s Guide to Project Management, Elizabeth Harrin has interviewed Gower author Nita Martin, Managing Director of Pure Indigo. Nita’s book, Project Politics: A Systematic Approach to Managing Complex Relationships, deals with that difficult subject of projects and politics.
The Project Management Centre for Excellence at the University of Maryland has recently begun a partnership with PM World Today to launch a new book review program. PM graduate students have been asked to review a number of books from 11 different publishers with 8 books currently underway. In addition, doctoral candidate David Choy, has interviewed the first reviewer; Michael O’Connor, and created a podcast which has kicked off with a candid discussion about Gower author Michael Cavanagh’s new book Second Order Project Management.
This month Dr Lynda Bourne author of Advising Upwards: A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders talks to Elizabeth Harrin about helping project managers communicate more effectively with executive stakeholders.
Professor Chris Mowles, author of Rethinking Management: Radical insights from the Complexity Sciences has written an opinion piece for Economia on Complexity and Crisis in the Eurozone
Whilst Dr Emanuel Camilleri, author of Project Success: Critical Factors & Behaviours has written in PM World Today about going beyond project management to define project success.
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?
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
The APM PMO SIG local meeting for London will be held this month at CAFOD, the international aid agency. The main presentation of the evening is by Peter Taylor, author of Leading Successful PMOs, and chaired by Lindsay Scott. This is the final local London meeting for 2011 and will feature two presentations.
Hosted by CAFOD, the international aid agency, the meeting will start with an overview of the PMO within CAFOD by Anke Bysouth, the PMO Manager.
Delegates will then hear from Peter Taylor, author of The Lazy Project Manager, and more recently Leading Successful PMOs. He will talk about how to build the best PMO for your business. The session will explore some of the research carried out by Peter Taylor for this book. The book brings together the experience and views of PMO leaders from around the world and the project managers that work within the PMOs, as well as those who are now seeking leaders for their PMOs. He will identify what it is that successful PMO leaders have and do that allows them to be successful and how the rest of us can learn from those proven experiences.
Registration is at 5.00pm, with the first presentation at 5.30pm. The event is held at the CAFOD Headquarters, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JB
Each local PMO SIG meeting allows time for networking with the opportunity to carry on the discussions at a local pub/bar. Click here to book onto this event.
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.
