PMFORUM Breaking News

Executives, program managers, project managers and project management professionals around the world are invited to New Delhi, India for the 2007 Global Project Management Symposium sponsored by Project Management Associates (PMA) and the Center for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM). With theme “Business by Projects”, the conference will be held during 12-14 November 2007 at the Hotel Ashok in New Delhi, India. This will be the 15th annual global project management symposium held in India.

Some of the anticipated topics include:

• Measuring performance against national project excellence award models


• IPMA 4 Level Certification (4LC) – the key to PM profession


• NTPC – an example of project excellence


• Attributes of complex project management


• Handling Complexities in managing hydro projects


• Making L&T a global brand, lessons learned


• History of project management in Japan


• New directions in managing projects in CPSEs


• thinking – changing the way projects are managed


• Certificate in Project Management (CIPM), creating a common PM vocabulary


• Managing complexities in R&D projects


• Project management in Chinese construction industry


• Creativity, innovation and programme management


• Measuring organizations PM maturity level


• Challenges in managing large infrastructure projects


• Emotions and rationality in managing projects

According to the conference brochure, those who should attend include people from all disciplines such as Agriculture, Construction, Finance, Engineering, HRD, Infrastructure, IT, Manufacturing, Marketing, Planning, Projects, R&D, Operations, Software, Services, NGO’s, etc. who wish to make their companies locally & globally competitive. Others who should be interested are top management with a vision; managers ready to take on new challenges; executives who are part of high performing teams; decision makers from state/central governments & organizations with funding from multi/bilateral agencies; strategic thinkers and managers from companies with a global presence; and project managers / team members of hard core, manufacturing and soft projects.

The conference is being supported by the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the International Construction Project Management Association (ICPMA) and the International Construction Project Management Union (ICPMU). The event will be supported by PMGURUONLINE.com. For more information, visit: http://www.pma-india.org/images/GS2007.pdf.