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Monday, August 24, 2009
NASA Keynote, academic leaders and leading researchers make 9th Lille Project Management Symposium a major event
Reported by Miles Shepherd in the UK
As previously reported, the 9th Annual Symposium organized by ESC Lille got off to a great start with stimulating presentations from several world class project management researchers including Prof Dov Dvir, Prof Aaron Shennar and Prof Roland Gareis, Prof Graham Winch, Prof Lynn Crawford and Prof Rodney Turner. Leading practitioners such as Hiroshi Tanaka, Dr Ed Hoffman and Tony Maturo (below) from NASA gave a series of presentations based on the daily themes supporting the overall concept of the symposium.
In the evening, less formal contact was the order of the day with more than 30 doctoral students joining the research and mentoring staff at a local restaurant after a long day of analysing individual submissions. This was a great informal end to the day and allowed old friends to catch up with the day's events.
The number and range of specialist presentations was very large with Prof Hans Georg Gemünden outlining the programme for IRNOP IX to be held in Berlin in October, Terry Cooke Davies and Michael Kavanagh describing the importance of systems thinking in dealing with complexity, and Erwin Weitlaner explaining Siemens' approach to the management of complex integration projects.
Editors: Prof Turner (centre) with Prof Bredillet (left) and Prof Walker (right)Apart from the educational work of the symposium, other exchanges took place, including an opportunity for the editors of the 3 most influential project management journals to compare notes. Prof Rodney Turner, editor of the IPMA's International Journal of Project Management and Prof Christophe Bredillet who edits PMI's Project Management Journal were joined by Prof Derek Walker who is the editor of the International Journal of the Management of Projects in Business. Prof Walker explained the policy and aims of his journal which includes a section on newly published Dissertations. The intention is to make the latest doctoral research available quickly to practitioners.
PMForum Advisors and Reporters were also present (see photo below) and took a full part in the week's work, acting as overall coordinator (Turner), academic summariser (Huemann) and presenters (Tanaka and Shepherd).
Photo - from left: Hiroshi Tanaka, Christophe Bredillet, Miles Shepherd, Sergey Bushuyev, Rodney Turner, Martina Huemann, Frank Anbari and Darren Dalcher
The gathering was the 4th Doctoral Symposium and was sponsored by the European Institute for the Advanced Study of Management (EIASM), headquartered in Brussels. In addition to supporting organizers of Doctoral support programmes, EIASM offers a limited number of scholarships which are limited to students from EIASM Institutional Members. Allocation of scholarships at the discretion of the European Institute.
As previously reported, the 9th Annual Symposium organized by ESC Lille got off to a great start with stimulating presentations from several world class project management researchers including Prof Dov Dvir, Prof Aaron Shennar and Prof Roland Gareis, Prof Graham Winch, Prof Lynn Crawford and Prof Rodney Turner. Leading practitioners such as Hiroshi Tanaka, Dr Ed Hoffman and Tony Maturo (below) from NASA gave a series of presentations based on the daily themes supporting the overall concept of the symposium.
The number and range of specialist presentations was very large with Prof Hans Georg Gemünden outlining the programme for IRNOP IX to be held in Berlin in October, Terry Cooke Davies and Michael Kavanagh describing the importance of systems thinking in dealing with complexity, and Erwin Weitlaner explaining Siemens' approach to the management of complex integration projects.
Editors: Prof Turner (centre) with Prof Bredillet (left) and Prof Walker (right)
PMForum Advisors and Reporters were also present (see photo below) and took a full part in the week's work, acting as overall coordinator (Turner), academic summariser (Huemann) and presenters (Tanaka and Shepherd).
Photo - from left: Hiroshi Tanaka, Christophe Bredillet, Miles Shepherd, Sergey Bushuyev, Rodney Turner, Martina Huemann, Frank Anbari and Darren Dalcher
The gathering was the 4th Doctoral Symposium and was sponsored by the European Institute for the Advanced Study of Management (EIASM), headquartered in Brussels. In addition to supporting organizers of Doctoral support programmes, EIASM offers a limited number of scholarships which are limited to students from EIASM Institutional Members. Allocation of scholarships at the discretion of the European Institute.