Projectizing your Organization: Benefits, Challenges and Changes for Project Managers

In an ever more competitive and global business world access to the best talent and ideas is critical. Enabled by modern collaboration technologies leading companies like Dell, Proctor & Gamble and Starbucks are using open innovation to become more competitive. Enterprises across the globe are becoming more open and engage and drive value from communities, crowds, customers, employees, partners, supplier or freelancers. The critical success factors for an open enterprise are social and digital media mastery, an open and flexible IT platform and the projectization of work.

This event takes a deeper look into the emerging trend of projectization of the workplace. Projectization is becoming a critical organizational capability to engage, manage and drive tangible results from a broad set of internal and external stakeholders. In contrast to optimized and automated business processes, projects are much better suited to leverage new ideas and people. As organizations re-balance innovation and operations projects will become increasingly important for business success. Project Management becomes a key organizational capability and skill set providing exciting new career prospects for project managers.

Key questions answered:

  1. How does the future for organizations look like?
  2. What is projectization?
  3. What are the signs that projectization is happening?
  4. How is it done?
  5. What are the benefits?
  6. What are the challenges?
  7. What are the chances and changes for project managers?

Thomas Martin
CEO, Forward Intelligence Group, MbA, PMP
Thomas Martin PortraitThomas Martin a thought leader in strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and future thinking. During his more than 20 years as a business manager, management and technology consultant he has helped multi-national companies in the US, Europe, Africa and Asia to develop and refine their strategies, decision making processes, leadership capabilities  and technology portfolios. As an entrepreneur and manager at A.T. Kearney, Capgemini and Microsoft he started and managed several business units and functions up to USD162m. He holds an MBA from European Business School in Germany and is a member of the PMI, Strategic Management, World Future and IEEE Computer Societies.

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