"Collaborative Approach to Project Management"
Even with increasing project complexity and an ever expanding set of available technologies,
the unfortunate statistic that 70% of projects fail to meet their stated objectives still remain true.
Why are we still seeing failed projects being highlighted in the broadsheets? Are there more tools and
techniques or do we need to look behind us?
 We live in a world of projects and programmes of ever increasing size and complexity. Coupled with the
array of available technologies we seem not to be getting away from the statistic that many projects fail
in their endeavours to meet their stated objectives. We are of course working hard to rectify this
and turn to a number of options and tools to address both the efficiency and effectiveness of our
project and programme management capabilities. Potentially we have taken our eye off the basics
and indeed both the human and organisational factors that affect our projects’ success. In this
presentation we will discuss some of these with the intention of hopefully bringing them to the
forefront of peoples' minds, indeed hopefully to act as a useful check as we return to our
demanding day jobs.
Collaboration is a generic term used to group these principles, and we will extend the use
of this word during the presentation to again focus on the personal, organisational and
sometimes financial considerations.
Our speaker, Tim Curry, is head of Capgemini's Programme Management Group. He started his career in
financial services with what is now AON, then in 1988 moved to spend 9 years with IBM, principally as
Systems Engineer then as Project Manager. Since the mid 1990's Tim has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Ernst and Young and spent two years running a BPO firm before joining Capgemini in 2002.
He has run some of Capgemini's largest and most complex programmes in industry sectors
such as financial services and manufacturing. His project and programmes have taken him
to work in most countries across Europe and also South Africa, USA and Canada.
Over recent years his work has mainly been Public Sector including major programme
deliveries at the Foreign Office and DWP. He is currently engaged as Programme
Director for a major programme at the Metropolitan Police Service.
Event Logistics
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Wednesday 15 Feb 2006 |
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18:30 (refreshments from 18:00) |
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BCS Centre
Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 7HA
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