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PMI'S CHAIR AND CEO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION PROJECT
Iain Fraser
Greg Balestrero
PMI's new Chair, Iain Fraser, and CEO, Greg Balestrero, conducted a "strategic dialogue" on the "community transformation project" with delegates at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday afternoon. The community transformation project is an initiative to change the way PMI's communities are formed to provide more variety in structures and create a community development model to accelerate maturity. According to PMI CEO Greg Balestrero, the project is "an organizational approach to align the various communities within PMI to PMI's envisioned goal and strategic objectives." PMI expects to develop and validate additional community models by the end of 2006, and to develop implementation plans for the rollout of these models. All current community formation requests will be resolved by the end of the year, promised Balestrero.
Answering questions from the audience, Balestrero explained that the community transformation project will allow existing components, chapters and SIG's, to change, especially to test new models and strengthen struggling components. The Leadership Institute Meeting, which precedes PMI's Global Congress Asia Pacific, attracted over 60 component leaders from 24 chapters, 5 SIG's, and 15 countries. Although most of the delegates represented chapters in the Asia Pacific region, there was also representation from Switzerland, France, Spain, Costa Rica, and the United States.