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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Tom Taylor to Review the Project Management Decade at PM-05 Conference in Crete on 29 May
Reported by Theofanis Giotis in Athens
Organizers of the PM-05: Advancing Project Management for the 21st Century, the fifth Project Management Conference in Greece, have announced that Tom Taylor, Former Chairman and Honorary Fellow of the UK's Association for Project Management, will deliver a major address and chair a track Saturday, 29 May 2010. The conference with the theme "Concepts, Tools & Techniques for Managing Successful Projects" will be held during 29-31 May 2010 at the Moevenpick Resort & Thalasso Hotel in Heraklion, on the historic Mediterranean island of Crete. Tom's presentation will be on the topic of "Grasping the Opportunities of the PM Decade" and will be the first in the conference track on the same topic. Conference information at http://2010.pmgreece.gr.
According to Tom's abstract: Is project and programme management on a journey of discovery itself? This stimulating and pointed presentation will address some of the issues. What has been happening - recently and further and much further back in time? What are the opportunities and challenges of this decade and beyond? How will we know when we have arrived? Will it be fun?"
According
to Tom (pictured right), "I want to try and set the stage and the mood
for thinking and for discussions on the directions and opportunities
for project and programme management. The last fifty years have seen an
acceleration of PPM despite the inevitable ups and downs of global and
national boom and gloom cycles including a rather difficult downturn
for many in the last few years in private and public sectors. What ever
the circumstances or the merits or successes of individual project and
programmes the PPM community appears to be on a forceful journey of its
own - as businesses, in academia, as associations and organisations."
"I have an optimism that the project management community is taking responsibility for its destiny," he added. "I will be interested to see if these particular delegates agree with me."
Tom Taylor is a founding partner of Buro Four - an eminent project management outfit based in UK. He is a Certificated Project Manager, a former chairman and current vice President of Association for Project Management (APM). He was named and Honorary Fellow and received the Sir Monty Finneston Award for lifetime achievement in 2009. Tom has over thirty years' experience in front line project and programme management including the Centenary Project for Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Cable and Wireless College, National Tennis Centre for Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and with many other types of projects, contract forms and teams. He is an active manager, advisor, consultant, lecturer, speaker, author and occasional broadcaster - with an enthusiastic, knowledgeable approach. His recent publications for project management practitioners, through dashdot, include "Characteristics of Effective Project Managers", "GMPM and other modern afflictions affecting project managers", "Management in Practice" and "How to Select the Right Project Manager" - which have touches of good sense and good humour. He has also written well received books on Recession Survival and Recession Recovery. He is continuing to research and promote further pragmatic topics including PM's contributions to Sustainability, the Environment and Green Issues.
Project management professionals and leaders worldwide are invited to attend the conference in Crete, to hear numerous presentations and speeches, and to contribute their knowledge and experience to the success of the event. The conference is aimed at academics, researchers, industrialists, professionals, policy makers, assessors, and certification & funding bodies concerned with projects and programmes in every economic sector. More information can be found at http://pmgreece.gr/content.php?cid=events:scpm5.
According to Professor John-Paris Pantouvakis, conference chair for PM-05, "We are happy to have Tom Taylor as a speaker and track chair this year. He always brings useful insights. And he is very well known now after serving as master of ceremonies at IPMA's world congress last year."
PM-05
is being organized by the Centre for Construction Innovation, National
Technical University of Athens (NTUA), in cooperation with the Network
of Project Managers in Greece (PM-Greece), the Scientific Association
for the Advancement of Project Management in Greece.
http://www.pmgreece.gr/.
Conference
Chair is Dr. John - Paris Pantouvakis, Associate Professor, Director of
the Department of Construction Engineering & Management, Faculty of
Civil Engineering, NTUA, Athens, Greece. Pro Pantouvakis is also
president of PM-Greece. Prof Pantouvakis can be contacted at
jpp@central.ntua.gr.
PMForum is a Media Partner for this event. To see more news coverage, please visit http://www.pmforum.org/events/2010/PM-05_Advancing_PM_21stCentury.html.
Organizers of the PM-05: Advancing Project Management for the 21st Century, the fifth Project Management Conference in Greece, have announced that Tom Taylor, Former Chairman and Honorary Fellow of the UK's Association for Project Management, will deliver a major address and chair a track Saturday, 29 May 2010. The conference with the theme "Concepts, Tools & Techniques for Managing Successful Projects" will be held during 29-31 May 2010 at the Moevenpick Resort & Thalasso Hotel in Heraklion, on the historic Mediterranean island of Crete. Tom's presentation will be on the topic of "Grasping the Opportunities of the PM Decade" and will be the first in the conference track on the same topic. Conference information at http://2010.pmgreece.gr.
According to Tom's abstract: Is project and programme management on a journey of discovery itself? This stimulating and pointed presentation will address some of the issues. What has been happening - recently and further and much further back in time? What are the opportunities and challenges of this decade and beyond? How will we know when we have arrived? Will it be fun?"
"I have an optimism that the project management community is taking responsibility for its destiny," he added. "I will be interested to see if these particular delegates agree with me."
Tom Taylor is a founding partner of Buro Four - an eminent project management outfit based in UK. He is a Certificated Project Manager, a former chairman and current vice President of Association for Project Management (APM). He was named and Honorary Fellow and received the Sir Monty Finneston Award for lifetime achievement in 2009. Tom has over thirty years' experience in front line project and programme management including the Centenary Project for Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Cable and Wireless College, National Tennis Centre for Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and with many other types of projects, contract forms and teams. He is an active manager, advisor, consultant, lecturer, speaker, author and occasional broadcaster - with an enthusiastic, knowledgeable approach. His recent publications for project management practitioners, through dashdot, include "Characteristics of Effective Project Managers", "GMPM and other modern afflictions affecting project managers", "Management in Practice" and "How to Select the Right Project Manager" - which have touches of good sense and good humour. He has also written well received books on Recession Survival and Recession Recovery. He is continuing to research and promote further pragmatic topics including PM's contributions to Sustainability, the Environment and Green Issues.
Project management professionals and leaders worldwide are invited to attend the conference in Crete, to hear numerous presentations and speeches, and to contribute their knowledge and experience to the success of the event. The conference is aimed at academics, researchers, industrialists, professionals, policy makers, assessors, and certification & funding bodies concerned with projects and programmes in every economic sector. More information can be found at http://pmgreece.gr/content.php?cid=events:scpm5.
According to Professor John-Paris Pantouvakis, conference chair for PM-05, "We are happy to have Tom Taylor as a speaker and track chair this year. He always brings useful insights. And he is very well known now after serving as master of ceremonies at IPMA's world congress last year."
PMForum is a Media Partner for this event. To see more news coverage, please visit http://www.pmforum.org/events/2010/PM-05_Advancing_PM_21stCentury.html.