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Monday, August 18, 2008
Inside of IT Projects - NTT Executive Satoshi Kurishima to Share Experiences in Keynote Speech at Sept. ProMAC 2008 P. M. Conference in Anchorage
The ProMAC 2008 conference team has announced that Satoshi Kurishima, Senior Vice President for NTT Data Corporation, will deliver a keynote speech during the plenary session on September 16, 2008. Mr. Kurishima's speech will be entitled "Inside IT Projects - How to Motivate Manages and Stakeholders."
The ProMAC 2008 Project Management Conference, "Project Management Leading Managerial Revolutions", will be held at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska during September 15-18, 2008. This conference follows previous successful ProMAC conferences in Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
Mr. Satoshi Kurishima (pictured right) graduated in 1980 from the Masters Course, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. In his current position as senior vice president of NTT Data Corporation, he is also Senior Executive Manager, Financial Systems Sector, Project Management Office, and Financial Systems Planning Office. Mr. Kurishima joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in 1980; he was promoted to Manager, Financial Systems Sector in 1988. In 2003 he was named Deputy Senior Executive Manager, Financial Systems Sector, and Senior Executive Manager, Banking Solution Planning Office. He became Senior Vice President in 2005, and Senior Executive Manager responsible for NTT’s Financial Systems Sector, Project Management Office and Next Banking Planning Office. He was named to his current position in 2007.
According to Mr. Kurishima’s abstract, "Communications management is the key success factor for IT projects, especially software development projects. In large scale projects that consists of more than 1,000 people, project managers spend almost all of their work effort for keeping good relationships with the project team, stakeholders, customer, and sponsor. NTT DATA Corporation has many experiences in managing large scale software development projects, and we would like to discuss how our project managers have been managing the projects in some our cases. Also, we would like to introduce our strategies and tactical solutions to train next generation managers to inherit the well experienced project managers' knowledge and skills."
The ProMAC 2008 conference will serve as an important forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences to revolutionize today’s project management knowledge and techniques for the future. Special plenary sessions featuring top executives and government officials will be held to exchange their practices and plans. Numerous paper presentations and workshops will be held. For details, visit http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/.
The ProMAC 2008 conference host and lead sponsor is the Masters of Science program in Project Management (MSPM) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Other sponsors include the PMI Anchorage Alaska Chapter, the Society of Project Management (Japan), Asia Pacific International College (Australia), Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), Alaska Airlines, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company , ASRC Energy Systems, British Petroleum (BP), ConocoPhillips, CH2MHill, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Hawk Consultants LLC, NANA Development Corporation, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The general conference co-chairs are Dr. Jang Ra, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA (Chair); Prof. Ali Jaafari, Asia Pacific International College, Australia; Dr. Osamu Ohno, Society of Project Management, Japan; and Prof. Khim Teck Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The Project Manager is Danny Elmore, University of Alaska Anchorage. For more information, visit http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/.
The ProMAC 2008 Project Management Conference, "Project Management Leading Managerial Revolutions", will be held at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska during September 15-18, 2008. This conference follows previous successful ProMAC conferences in Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
According to Mr. Kurishima’s abstract, "Communications management is the key success factor for IT projects, especially software development projects. In large scale projects that consists of more than 1,000 people, project managers spend almost all of their work effort for keeping good relationships with the project team, stakeholders, customer, and sponsor. NTT DATA Corporation has many experiences in managing large scale software development projects, and we would like to discuss how our project managers have been managing the projects in some our cases. Also, we would like to introduce our strategies and tactical solutions to train next generation managers to inherit the well experienced project managers' knowledge and skills."
The ProMAC 2008 conference host and lead sponsor is the Masters of Science program in Project Management (MSPM) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Other sponsors include the PMI Anchorage Alaska Chapter, the Society of Project Management (Japan), Asia Pacific International College (Australia), Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), Alaska Airlines, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company , ASRC Energy Systems, British Petroleum (BP), ConocoPhillips, CH2MHill, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Hawk Consultants LLC, NANA Development Corporation, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The general conference co-chairs are Dr. Jang Ra, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA (Chair); Prof. Ali Jaafari, Asia Pacific International College, Australia; Dr. Osamu Ohno, Society of Project Management, Japan; and Prof. Khim Teck Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The Project Manager is Danny Elmore, University of Alaska Anchorage. For more information, visit http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/promac/.
