Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Professor Pieter Steyn in South Africa named International Advisor for PMForum & PM World Today
Dr. Pieter Steyn, Principal and
Professor at the Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management
in South Africa has been named an International Academic &
Editorial Advisor for PMForum and the online project management
eJournal PM World Today.
Dr. Pieter Steyn
(pictured at right) is Founder and Principal of Cranefield College of
Project and Programme Management, a South African Council on Higher
Education / Dept of Education accredited and registered Private Higher
Education Institution offering an Advanced Diploma, Postgraduate
Diploma and Master's Degree in project and programme-based leadership
and management. Professor Steyn holds an engineering degree (BSc Eng),
MBA and Doctorate in business management and is a registered
Professional Engineer.
Dr. Steyn founded consulting engineering firm Steyn & Van Rensburg (SVR) in 1970. (Projects included First National Bank Head Office (Bank City), Standard Bank Head Office, Mandela Square (all in Johannesburg), Game City and The Wheel Shopping Centres (Durban)). He was appointed professor in the Department of Management, University of South Africa (1976), was Founder Chairperson (1977) of the Production Management Institute of South Africa, and helped pioneer Project Management as a university subject at the post-graduate level in 1979 at the University of South Africa.
He was professor of Project and Operations Management at the TUKS Graduate School of Management, University of Pretoria from 1990 until retiring in 1998. Pieter was Chairperson of the Commission of Enquiry into the Swaziland Civil Service in 1993; Project Leader of the Strategic Management Team for the Gauteng Government's Welfare Department and Corporate Core, 1994 to 1996. He founded the Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management in 1998.
Pieter is co-author of the "International Handbook of Production and Operations Management," (Cassell, London, 1989, ed. Ray Wild) and author of many articles and papers on leadership and management.
Pieter is a founder Fellow of the Production Management Institute of South Africa, and a member of the Association of Business Leadership, Industrial Engineering Institute, Engineering Association of South Africa and Project Management South Africa (PMSA). He is founder and past President of the Association of Project Management, South Africa (APMSA) and South Africa's former representative on the Council of Delegates of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), 2000-2005. He is currently a member of IPMA's Research Management Board (since 2007).
Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management is a registered Private Higher Education Institution in South Africa, with primary campus at the Midrand Conference Centre near Johannesburg. Courses are also offered in Durban, East London, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Namibia. Cranefield provides "new economy" strategy-centred leadership and management education that enables students and organisations to progress towards a learning culture and knowledge management excellence. This enables a move away from bureaucratic practices towards more value chain management employing a project and programme based approach, culminating in continuous transformation, change and improvement. Strategy alignment and use of integrated high-performance team approaches lead to flexible and agile value chain management.
Cranefield offers a web-based project implementation course available world-wide, as well as a classroom-based Advanced Diploma, Post-graduate Diploma and Master's Degree in project and programme-based value chain management. An outcomes-based adult learning approach is followed, using both theory and case material. Cranefield is immensely proud of its many graduates who are appointed to senior leadership and management positions in both the private and public sectors, not only in Africa, but also in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. For more information, visit
http://www.cranefield.ac.za/index.htm.
Professor Steyn lives in Midrand, Johannesburg Region, South Africa and can be contacted at cranefield1@cranefield.ac.za. The PMForum team welcomes Professor Pieter Steyn to the International Academic & Editorial Advisory Council for PMForum and PM World Today.
PMForum's International Academic & Editorial Advisory Council includes academic leaders and representatives from some of the world's leading universities that offer graduate programs in project management. Each representative is a professor or head of department and is well known in his or her respective country's project management academic community. Additional information about PMForum's International Editorial Advisory Council can be found at www.pmworldtoday.net/team.htm.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org
was the first website in the world devoted to professional project
management. It is still one of the most widely known and most popular
sources of project management news and information. PMForum is an organization formed to administer and grow the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today
eJournal where articles, papers, reports and viewpoints by leading PM
authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free
subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.
Dr. Steyn founded consulting engineering firm Steyn & Van Rensburg (SVR) in 1970. (Projects included First National Bank Head Office (Bank City), Standard Bank Head Office, Mandela Square (all in Johannesburg), Game City and The Wheel Shopping Centres (Durban)). He was appointed professor in the Department of Management, University of South Africa (1976), was Founder Chairperson (1977) of the Production Management Institute of South Africa, and helped pioneer Project Management as a university subject at the post-graduate level in 1979 at the University of South Africa.
He was professor of Project and Operations Management at the TUKS Graduate School of Management, University of Pretoria from 1990 until retiring in 1998. Pieter was Chairperson of the Commission of Enquiry into the Swaziland Civil Service in 1993; Project Leader of the Strategic Management Team for the Gauteng Government's Welfare Department and Corporate Core, 1994 to 1996. He founded the Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management in 1998.
Pieter is co-author of the "International Handbook of Production and Operations Management," (Cassell, London, 1989, ed. Ray Wild) and author of many articles and papers on leadership and management.
Pieter is a founder Fellow of the Production Management Institute of South Africa, and a member of the Association of Business Leadership, Industrial Engineering Institute, Engineering Association of South Africa and Project Management South Africa (PMSA). He is founder and past President of the Association of Project Management, South Africa (APMSA) and South Africa's former representative on the Council of Delegates of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), 2000-2005. He is currently a member of IPMA's Research Management Board (since 2007).
Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management is a registered Private Higher Education Institution in South Africa, with primary campus at the Midrand Conference Centre near Johannesburg. Courses are also offered in Durban, East London, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Namibia. Cranefield provides "new economy" strategy-centred leadership and management education that enables students and organisations to progress towards a learning culture and knowledge management excellence. This enables a move away from bureaucratic practices towards more value chain management employing a project and programme based approach, culminating in continuous transformation, change and improvement. Strategy alignment and use of integrated high-performance team approaches lead to flexible and agile value chain management.
Cranefield offers a web-based project implementation course available world-wide, as well as a classroom-based Advanced Diploma, Post-graduate Diploma and Master's Degree in project and programme-based value chain management. An outcomes-based adult learning approach is followed, using both theory and case material. Cranefield is immensely proud of its many graduates who are appointed to senior leadership and management positions in both the private and public sectors, not only in Africa, but also in Europe, the Middle East and the USA. For more information, visit
http://www.cranefield.ac.za/index.htm.
Professor Steyn lives in Midrand, Johannesburg Region, South Africa and can be contacted at cranefield1@cranefield.ac.za. The PMForum team welcomes Professor Pieter Steyn to the International Academic & Editorial Advisory Council for PMForum and PM World Today.
PMForum's International Academic & Editorial Advisory Council includes academic leaders and representatives from some of the world's leading universities that offer graduate programs in project management. Each representative is a professor or head of department and is well known in his or her respective country's project management academic community. Additional information about PMForum's International Editorial Advisory Council can be found at www.pmworldtoday.net/team.htm.