ESI’s ‘Centre of Excellence’ group was formed in January 2009 to provide a forum for some of our most experienced and forward-thinking industry leaders to share ideas and best practices that will improve the performance of their organisations. The mission of the Centre of Excellence revolves around 3 areas:
A survey was conducted at the end of 2008 in order to take this community forward and to understand the challenges and issues being faced by the Project Management Office. This included both quantitative and qualitative data focusing on the Project Management Office. The collated responses from this survey helped us construct the content for our half day event “PMO in Hard Times – Adding Value or Adding Cost?” which took place in London on Tuesday 3rd of March 2009.
- Events - Our events are a vital part of the COE activities, and helps us to remain thought leaders in the industry. These events explore very advanced topics and their objective is to provide the opportunity for our members to network with other colleagues on a face-to-face basis. These events are a mixture of case study, to share knowledge and best practice and workshops, to enable delegates to share ideas and experiences. The COE hosts to 2 to 3 events per year.
The events will generally cover various ‘Hot Topics’ and during our previous events, topics which were discussed were the following:
3rd March 2009 - PMO In Hard Times – Adding Value or Adding Cost
- Introduction and background on the PMO – LeRoy Ward, Executive Vice President, ESI International
- Case Study: PMO - Its Time to Shine – Steve Cray, Director of Programme & Project Management, Ericsson Ltd
- Case Study: PMO Set up and Best Practices – Prabhat Garga, Programme Management Director, AMEC
- Workshop: ESI’s ‘PMO Competency Continuum Model’ – John Pelham, ESI Senior Instructor
30th June 2009 - Creating and Maintaining PMO Value
- Workshop 1: What Sort of Shape is Your PMO in? – John Pelham, PMO Specialist – ESI Senior Instructor
- Case Study : How Did Siemens Shape its PMO? – Peter Taylor, EMEA Project Management Office Director – Siemens
- Workshop 2 : Your PMO Competencies : Sharing Your Gains and Your Pains – Simon Harris, Governance and Benefits Management Specialist – ESI Senior Instructor
23rd November 2009 – Governance and Cross Project Learning, Making it Real and Making it Work
- Embracing the Governance of Change – John Bartlett, Senior Instructor – ESI International
- Case Study: Building a Project Management Culture at Tetra Pak – Matts Larsson, Director, Global Training – Tetra Pak
- Case Study : Developing a Project Management Culture at ASML – David Davies, Twinscan PMO Manager - ASML
23rd March 2010 – Maximising the Impact of Your Learning Investment – Pragmatic Best Practices From the Trenches
- Introduction, Part 1 – Current Trends and the Need for Better Measurement: – Raed Haddad, Senior Vice President of Global Delivery Service – ESI International
- Introduction, Part 2 – Current Trends and the need for Better Measurement – Raed Haddad, Senior Vice President of Global Delivery Service – ESI International
- Success with Change – Some Key Lessons – Paul Rayner, Chairman - ProgM, Managing Consultant - Logica UK Ltd
The Centre of Excellence’s main aim is to continue to provide very successful and useful events for the future and focus on popular subject areas and areas of value to members. We expect our future events to contain a good balance of case studies and workshops.
- Tools/Resources
This member only group will have access to useful tools and resources including high level relevant whitepapers/articles, press releases, webinars and podcasts. As well as survey reports conducted by ESI, access to other useful survey reports will also be accessible. Past event presentation slides are also available to members of this group.
- Blogs
Members of the Centre of Excellence will be able to participate in a specific blog created for this group. These blogs will be initiated by subject matter experts and ESI will have a panel of experts to bring ideas and discussions to the table. We hope that our COE members will also be able to initiate discussions and be able to take away valuable information.
If you are interested in joining the Centre of Excellence group please complete the form below.
