| Topic: Does your Organization Support, Ignore or Obstruct Project Management? Why do projects fail?
Date:
Wednesday,
April 12, 2006
All registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-in's will be accepted the day of the event. Registration ends Sunday, April 9th at 7:00PM.
Location:
Chevy Chase Country Club
1000 North Milwaukee Avenue
Wheeling, IL 60090-1899
(847) 465-2305 Driving directions.
Speaker: John Censor
Agenda
6:00 Registration
and Networking
6:30 Announcements
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Raffle
8:00 Presentation
9:00 Close
Presentation Objective(s):
- What your role is in your organization's project management environment, how different organizations obtain resources, and who has authorization and control among projects
- Involvement of sponsor on overall outcome, completion of projects on time and on budget, manager involvement from start to finish
- Understand senior management's impact on decisions and dealing with miscommunication
Abstract:
This educational presentation is an overview of initial findings from a one year ongoing survey conducted by PCI Global, an international project management training and consulting company.
The survey consists of 14 questions rating all aspects of a participating company's corporate project effectiveness. It has been administered to over 100 participants, more than 80 percent of whom are project managers or team members, the groups that bear the brunt of their organization's effectiveness. Attendees will take and review each question, revealing startling details about how effective their project management office really is. PCI's initial findings suggest the greatest impact or predictor of project success is whether the senior management knowingly or unknowingly supports, ignores or actually obstructs project progress. This may explain the high failure rates and costs reported elsewhere. The study also reports on project managers' complaints and recommendations to improve overall performance.
About the Speaker:
For over twenty years, John Censor has trained all levels of management, from company presidents to management trainees in all functional areas in banking, insurance, manufacturing, and utilities. His specialty is Project/Program Management and Operations Leadership training for companies like GENERAL ELECTRIC, LOCKHEED MARTIN, CITGROUP and CHASE. He has managed divisions of two client organizations with full profit and loss responsibility, giving all his training a bottom-line orientation. He invented computer simulations of projects to yield more applicable learning in less time.
Mr. Censor was born in Belgium and came to New York at age 4. He served as a US Navy officer in the Office of Naval Intelligence and aboard the destroyer USS Fox in Norfolk VA. John started in advertising writing print, radio and television commercials for J Walter Thompson, Grey Advertising and Ted Bates. Then moved to supervise Sales and Management Training for insurance firms, prior to starting his own company. His undergraduate degree is from Columbia University and his Masters degree from The New School, both in New York City.
Registration:
Register at www.pmi-chicagoland.org. Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. Registration ends Sunday, April 9th at 7:00PM.
Contact the Director of Programs at programs@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this event.
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