CORMSIS seminar by Jean Binder Event

Title: Global Project Management, challenges and success factors

Abstract:

Globalization has brought about the need for a new project management concept, that of ‘global projects': projects involving stakeholders in various countries, from diverse organizational and national cultures, speaking different languages and working in skewed time zones. Many organizations struggle to reach the required levels of quality and effectiveness from global projects because their methods and practices are not adapted to a global multi-cultural environment, where most communication is asynchronous and often requires an effective use of information and communication tools.

This presentation briefly reviews the potential benefits and the key challenges of global projects, and suggesting several success factors that can support the project managers to face these challenges. These success factors will then be illustrated by real-life examples, which will show how leadership skills and commonplace technologies in project environments can be used in innovative ways. In the Q&A session the participants will be able to discuss the research methods underpinning the study, and potential areas for future collaborative and multidisciplinary research.

The Global Project Management Framework that serve as a basis for this presentation is explained on the website www.globalprojectmanagement.org and in the book "Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders", recipient of the PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2008 (Best project management book published in 2007).