Business Transformation and the Role of Project Management

This 3-day workshop will help students and business managers to gain an in depth understanding of the main principles of business transformation and the role project, programme and project portfolio management plays to help achieve the desired business transformation.

The market place world-wide has become complex. Many organisations operate globally and competition is fierce. Global trends in the way businesses now operate and work have had major impacts on organisations. Change is happening in more workplaces than ever before and at much faster rates. Customer expectations have increased as far as quality of products and speed of service is concerned. As a result, businesses need to respond to an increasing need for flexibility, productivity, strategy and leadership changes.

The main objectives of this course are to explore changes taking place in organisations today, to explain how organisations can prepare for change, to clarify human reactions to change and how to deal/manage these and to explain team involvement and visionary leadership to make it all happen.

The course will involve lectures, whole audience and some interactive small group work to bring out some of the key messages. All practical examples are drawn from a real current ongoing business transformation initiative by a major utilities company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (7 programmes and over 60 associated projects). This company is undergoing a major business transformation from a Government-run and funded organisation to become a private company within the next two years.

Participants will:

This course is presented by Dr Eddie Fisher (Ph.D., M.Sc., FAPM) who has been working in portfolio, programme, project and business management over the last 30 years. Eddie has managed business transformations in companies he has worked for such as British Telecom, O2, Vodafone, GSM Association and recently the National Water Company in Riyadh. In addition, he has managed large and complex construction, facilities, business change and products and services programmes and projects in many countries.