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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Professor Lynn Crawford to Deliver Keynote Speech at 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome in November 2008
The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run - has announced that Dr. Lynn Crawford will be a keynote speaker for the November congress. Prof. Lynn Crawford (BArch MTCP GradDipHRM ADipC DBA FAIPM FRAIA MAPM) is Professor of Project Management at the Bond University, Australia and at the ESC of Lille, France. She is also Director of Human Systems International Limited.
Lynn Crawford is involved in project management practice, education and research and is Professor of Project Management at both the Lille Graduate School of Management (ESC Lille), France and Bond University, Australia. Through Human Systems, she works with leading corporations that are developing organisational project management competence by sharing and developing knowledge and best practices as members of a global system of project management knowledge networks. She is currently involved in three research projects.
Her research and writing are currently focused on Exploring the Role of the Executive Sponsor, The Value of Project Management and Impact of Complexity Theory on Project Management. Results of a completed study have been published by in a book titled "Project Categorization Systems: Aligning Capability with Strategy for Better Results". Lynn has been actively engaged in the development of global standards for project management since the late 1990’s and has been instrumental in the formation of the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS).
At the 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, as a key-note speaker, Dr. Crawford will speak on the topic of "Project Management for a Faster Tomorrow".
According to her abstract, "We are all running to keep up with the pace of change. Project and Program Managers, as the managers of change, are at the heart of this challenge. Like professional athletes, individuals, project teams and organisations need to baseline and benchmark their performance, develop and implement ongoing improvement programs to ensure and maintain their fitness for competition. This presentation will show how leading project managers, teams and organisations are preparing themselves by developing their competence for a faster future."
The IPMA 22nd World Congress on Project Management will be held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008. According to the "ROMA 2008 - Project Management to Run" project team, with keynote speeches and 12 streams of presentations over three days, as many as 200 presentations on important project management topics can be anticipated.
The congress is expected to attract leading project management authorities and over 1,000 participants from the 45+ countries represented by IPMA membership. The Roma 2008 World Congress will be one of the largest project management events in the world this year. The 22nd IPMA World Congress and Exhibition will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi near the heart of downtown Rome. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
The local hosts for the ROMA 2008 World Congress are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is PierMarco Romagnoli.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve each country in its national language. IPMA provides an umbrella organization at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level PM Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch.
Her research and writing are currently focused on Exploring the Role of the Executive Sponsor, The Value of Project Management and Impact of Complexity Theory on Project Management. Results of a completed study have been published by in a book titled "Project Categorization Systems: Aligning Capability with Strategy for Better Results". Lynn has been actively engaged in the development of global standards for project management since the late 1990’s and has been instrumental in the formation of the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS).
At the 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, as a key-note speaker, Dr. Crawford will speak on the topic of "Project Management for a Faster Tomorrow".
According to her abstract, "We are all running to keep up with the pace of change. Project and Program Managers, as the managers of change, are at the heart of this challenge. Like professional athletes, individuals, project teams and organisations need to baseline and benchmark their performance, develop and implement ongoing improvement programs to ensure and maintain their fitness for competition. This presentation will show how leading project managers, teams and organisations are preparing themselves by developing their competence for a faster future."
The congress is expected to attract leading project management authorities and over 1,000 participants from the 45+ countries represented by IPMA membership. The Roma 2008 World Congress will be one of the largest project management events in the world this year. The 22nd IPMA World Congress and Exhibition will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi near the heart of downtown Rome. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
The local hosts for the ROMA 2008 World Congress are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is PierMarco Romagnoli.
