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Monday, August 06, 2007
Karen Tate, PMI Director, Delivers Strategic Message to 1st UTD Project Management Symposium in Texas
Reported by David Pells and Nelson Soucek in Plano, TX, USA
Karen Tate, PMP, Director-at-Large and member of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), delivered the second keynote address at the 1st UTD Project Management Symposium today in Plano, Texas. Karen’s presentation was on the topic of “Project Management as a Strategic Competency”.
According to Karen, “Companies are turning to project management to obtain quicker benefits from their projects. The three powerful strategies involved are standards, competencies and maturity”.
Representing the PMI board of directors, Karen described some of PMI’s leadership activities and products that directly support the growing strategic importance of project management. According to Karen, “PMI’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge was the 11th best selling business book on Amazon.com in June. The PMBOK Guide has now been published in 10 languages and is widely distributed worldwide”.
“As of the end of June”, Karen added, “there were 237,000 persons worldwide with PMP certification. The PMP is in the top 10 most demanded certifications in the market.”
Karen also described how world class leaders are embracing project management and PMI in global organizations, including Siemens, Huawei, IBM and NASA. She discussed some of the steps taken by those organizations to raise the level of performance on their projects, including policy direction, risk management and governance strategies.
Karen Tate, MBA, PMP, is Founder and President of The Griffen Tate Group, an Ohio-based project management consulting firm that provides consulting, training, facilitation and course development to both the private and public sectors, small and large organizations. Ms. Tate has been working with projects and project teams for more than 20 years. Her areas of expertise include Project Management, Training and Consulting, Team and Executive Level Meeting Facilitation, Technical Creativity & Innovation, Reengineering and Total Quality Management. She has extensive experience with technical, engineering, high tech, and software development organizations.
Karen has managed programs and projects of all types and sizes, in a variety of industries, and has presented, consulted and trained with organizations throughout North America, Europe, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her corporate experience included positions where she was an engineer, project manager, and consultant for both internal and external customers. Karen is the co-author of The Project Management Memory Jogger, A Pocket Guide for Project Teams, Getting Started in Project Management, A Step By Step Approach to Risk Assessment, and Triz: An Approach to Systematic Innovation.
A PMI member since 1991, she has been a frequent speaker and presenter at PMI chapter meetings, conferences and SeminarsWorld® programs around the world. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and has a BS in finance and an MBA from Xavier Univerity in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen has also been a frequent contributor of articles and was a former columnist for PM Network®, served as a PMI Project of the Year judge, and was a member of the PMI Education Member Advisory Group. She has been chair of the External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee (ERVI) of the PMI Board of Directors since 2005.
A copy of Karen’s presentation will be available soon on http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium is being held today at the Plano Convention Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, Texas, USA. The 1 day symposium features speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks:
Track 1 – Program & Portfolio Management
Track 2 – Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor
Track 3 – Software Development & Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Product Development, including small projects
Track 5 – The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance
Track 6 – Project Management in the Global Economy
The conference is being sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management in the School of Management’s Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/); along with the PMI Dallas Chapter (http://www.pmidallas.org/index.phtml); and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium has now been scheduled for August 2008 and is expected to be twice as large as this first year’s event.
According to Karen, “Companies are turning to project management to obtain quicker benefits from their projects. The three powerful strategies involved are standards, competencies and maturity”.
Representing the PMI board of directors, Karen described some of PMI’s leadership activities and products that directly support the growing strategic importance of project management. According to Karen, “PMI’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge was the 11th best selling business book on Amazon.com in June. The PMBOK Guide has now been published in 10 languages and is widely distributed worldwide”.
“As of the end of June”, Karen added, “there were 237,000 persons worldwide with PMP certification. The PMP is in the top 10 most demanded certifications in the market.”
Karen also described how world class leaders are embracing project management and PMI in global organizations, including Siemens, Huawei, IBM and NASA. She discussed some of the steps taken by those organizations to raise the level of performance on their projects, including policy direction, risk management and governance strategies.
Karen has managed programs and projects of all types and sizes, in a variety of industries, and has presented, consulted and trained with organizations throughout North America, Europe, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her corporate experience included positions where she was an engineer, project manager, and consultant for both internal and external customers. Karen is the co-author of The Project Management Memory Jogger, A Pocket Guide for Project Teams, Getting Started in Project Management, A Step By Step Approach to Risk Assessment, and Triz: An Approach to Systematic Innovation.
A PMI member since 1991, she has been a frequent speaker and presenter at PMI chapter meetings, conferences and SeminarsWorld® programs around the world. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and has a BS in finance and an MBA from Xavier Univerity in Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen has also been a frequent contributor of articles and was a former columnist for PM Network®, served as a PMI Project of the Year judge, and was a member of the PMI Education Member Advisory Group. She has been chair of the External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee (ERVI) of the PMI Board of Directors since 2005.
A copy of Karen’s presentation will be available soon on http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium is being held today at the Plano Convention Center, 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, Texas, USA. The 1 day symposium features speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks:
Track 1 – Program & Portfolio Management
Track 2 – Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor
Track 3 – Software Development & Agile Project Management
Track 4 – PM for Product Development, including small projects
Track 5 – The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance
Track 6 – Project Management in the Global Economy
The conference is being sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management in the School of Management’s Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/); along with the PMI Dallas Chapter (http://www.pmidallas.org/index.phtml); and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium has now been scheduled for August 2008 and is expected to be twice as large as this first year’s event.
