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Global Expert on Change Management, Professor Roland Gareis, to lead Expert Seminar on 6 June in Vienna
Reported by Martina Huemann in Vienna, Austria
An Expert Seminar on "Change Management and Projects" is being offered on 6 June 2009in Vienna, Austria. The seminar leader will be Professor Roland Gareis, one of the world's leading experts now on the use of projects and project management for organizational change management. Change is everywhere today, and is often critical to an organization's survival or competitive success.
The seminar will explore the definitions of change and change management; types of changes and change processes; design for radical new positioning; design for transformation; projects and programmes in the change process; roles in the changes process; and management of emotions and conflicts during the change process.
This expert seminar is aimed at managers of companies and profit centers, change managers and owners, and programme and project owners and managers. This seminar is not just for project-oriented companies, but for all organizations and executives in various industries where changes are occurring or expected. The participation fee for the expert seminar is EUR 550,- excl. VAT. For information or to register, visit http://www.happyprojects.at/index.php?id=1171&L=2
The leader of this expert seminar will be Roland Gareis (pictured left), PhD, Dkfm, professor and head of the project management department, PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP, at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. He is also director of the Professional MBA Program "Project & Process Management" at the university and manager of the research program: Project orientation (international). From 1986 - 2002, Roland was chairman of Project Management Austria, the Austrian professional project management association. He is the former research director for IPMA and has been involved in various project management research and teaching projects for over 20 years. Since 1982, Professor Gareis has also owned and managed ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING, providing project management services to national and international companies throughout Europe.
According to Roland, "Change management and project management go hand-in-hand, but they are not the same thing. It is important that those who are responsible for planning and managing major changes understand the difference, know how to organize change projects, and can use project and programme management approaches when appropriate."
The happy projects '09 conference will include presentations and discussions on various aspects of Change Management, including: Change Management Approaches; Interventions in the Change Process; Projects & Programmes for the Design of Change Processes; Change in Projects & Programmes; and Individual and Organizational Change Management Competences. The happy projects`09 conference is often the biggest project management event in Austria, and is the annual international Project Management Conference of PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration - and ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING. Information can be found at http://www.happyprojects.at/.
Pre-programme workshops will include: International Students Workshop (1-3 June 2009) and PMUni Workshop (3 June 2009). Post-programme expert seminars on 6 June 2009 are on Programme and Project Portfolio Management, Management Auditing of Projects, Assessment of Individual Project Management Competences, International Project Management Approaches and Change Management and Projects. Registration for the conference and workshops is open now. To register or for more information, visit http://www.happyprojects.at/index.php?id=593&L=2.
Established in 1898, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien - formerly called the Imperial Export Academy) is one of Austria's main universities with 20,000 students and more than 1,000 full-time and adjunct faculty and staff. The University's close cooperation with the business world affords it an especially practical relevance, which is one of the reasons why it has been ranked among Europe's Top 50 Business Schools. WU Wien has over 180 partner universities throughout the world and acknowledged expertise in a number of fields, including that of East-West business. Additional information can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/english.
The PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP (PMG) is a department of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (since 1994) and offers high quality education and research in process and project management. The PMG offers a special subject "Project management" for master and bachelor students at the University and cooperates both in education and research with an international network of project-oriented enterprises and universities. Additional information about PMG can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/pmg.
An Expert Seminar on "Change Management and Projects" is being offered on 6 June 2009in Vienna, Austria. The seminar leader will be Professor Roland Gareis, one of the world's leading experts now on the use of projects and project management for organizational change management. Change is everywhere today, and is often critical to an organization's survival or competitive success.
This expert seminar is aimed at managers of companies and profit centers, change managers and owners, and programme and project owners and managers. This seminar is not just for project-oriented companies, but for all organizations and executives in various industries where changes are occurring or expected. The participation fee for the expert seminar is EUR 550,- excl. VAT. For information or to register, visit http://www.happyprojects.at/index.php?id=1171&L=2
According to Roland, "Change management and project management go hand-in-hand, but they are not the same thing. It is important that those who are responsible for planning and managing major changes understand the difference, know how to organize change projects, and can use project and programme management approaches when appropriate."
The happy projects '09 conference will include presentations and discussions on various aspects of Change Management, including: Change Management Approaches; Interventions in the Change Process; Projects & Programmes for the Design of Change Processes; Change in Projects & Programmes; and Individual and Organizational Change Management Competences. The happy projects`09 conference is often the biggest project management event in Austria, and is the annual international Project Management Conference of PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration - and ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING. Information can be found at http://www.happyprojects.at/.
Pre-programme workshops will include: International Students Workshop (1-3 June 2009) and PMUni Workshop (3 June 2009). Post-programme expert seminars on 6 June 2009 are on Programme and Project Portfolio Management, Management Auditing of Projects, Assessment of Individual Project Management Competences, International Project Management Approaches and Change Management and Projects. Registration for the conference and workshops is open now. To register or for more information, visit http://www.happyprojects.at/index.php?id=593&L=2.
Established in 1898, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien - formerly called the Imperial Export Academy) is one of Austria's main universities with 20,000 students and more than 1,000 full-time and adjunct faculty and staff. The University's close cooperation with the business world affords it an especially practical relevance, which is one of the reasons why it has been ranked among Europe's Top 50 Business Schools. WU Wien has over 180 partner universities throughout the world and acknowledged expertise in a number of fields, including that of East-West business. Additional information can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/english.
The PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP (PMG) is a department of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (since 1994) and offers high quality education and research in process and project management. The PMG offers a special subject "Project management" for master and bachelor students at the University and cooperates both in education and research with an international network of project-oriented enterprises and universities. Additional information about PMG can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/pmg.