Project Culture, Creator or Destroyer of Project Success?

‘Raising the bar in Management of Projects’ Series

Tuesday 5 September 2017

Blaxland B, Swissotel, 68 Market Street Sydney

engineersaustralia.org.au

Culture plays a large role in the success of a project. It’s not just about time, costs, and quality controls. Management needs to create the right culture to help build a successful project.

The College of Leadership & Management will be holding the next ‘Raising the Bar in Management of Projects’ to help explain the link between culture and a successful project.

1. The Lost Opportunity

• The management link missing in project governance is often the client’s culture, which can cause a ripple effect through out the project.

• Project culture is a business enhancing criteria sometimes lost in preparation of a project.

• Client culture has been proven to be the difference between creating real sustainable growth and destroying it

2. Exploiting the Opportunity

• Why is it essential for clients to embrace project culture before the project is initiated?

• How does project culture contribute to wealth creation and how do you create and measure it?

• Who is responsible for project culture or is a member of the accountability chain?

• What constitutes project culture and its practice standards

3. Delivering the Opportunity

• The seminar will feature three project professionals with over 100 years experience between them on billion dollar projects.

• They will outline their experiences recounting the good and the bad of project culture & management.

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TICKETS

Member $20Society Member $20Student Member $20Non-member $50

Chris Lock – Former Deputy Director General, Transport for NSWChris will explore how it’s people that really matter and how the client, project and team cultures determine project outcomes. He will provide examples of where client culture has been the missing ingredient to success. His project experience includes all the NSW rail projects 2005-2015

Rosalind Coffey, Head of People, Culture and Client Experience, Macquarie Bank

Rosalind will reveal how it’s the client CEO that really matters together with the four key factors in creating a winning project culture.

Tom Crow, author of ‘Culture - Creator or Destroyer of Sustainable Infrastructure’ Tom explains how you can determine the culture of a project through benchmarks. He developed the technique from studying over 100 projects including Gladesville Bridge, Sydney Opera House Car-park, Sydney 2000 Olympics and Sydney Harbour Bridge Retrofit.

“Using the benchmarks, you can tell within 8 hours of observing a project team’s culture, ‘the way they do things’ whether the project will have long term sustainability and meet its business case”

Our guest speakers will establish the link between project culture, community needs, sustainability and financial return.

Project culture the missing link in under-performing projects?

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