JOHANNESBURG BRANCH MEETING & PRESENTATION

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

The Emergent Role of the Chief Programme Officer (CPO) - Featuring Prof. Pieter Steyn of Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management

MEETING DETAILS

Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Time:  Registration from 16:30. Presentation begins at 17:00, until 18:00

Venue: Finesse Auditorium, Eskom Convention Centre, Midrand (click here for directions and map)

RSVP: Stacey Bacon (admin@projectmanagement.org.za) - kindly state the name of the event in the subject line.

Cost: R65 for non-members, R50 for members, no charge for Professional members (payment can be made at the door)

BACKGROUND

Prof P.G. Steyn from Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management delivered a paper in the IPMA conference late last year titled, “The emergent role of the Chief Programme Officer (CPO)”. He will be sharing some of his insights on this theme.

A recent IBM survey found consensus amongst CEOs that organisations are bombarded by change and that many are struggling to cope with the transformation. The gap between expected change and the ability to manage the required transformation has almost tripled since IBM’s previous study in 2006. CEOs are moving aggressively towards global business designs, deeply changing capabilities, and partnering more extensively. This trend has great significance for the programme approach to managing the enterprise value chain. It necessitates the introduction of cross-functional programme management structures to create synergy in monitoring and controlling operations. To succeed, CEOs and the full staff complement of the enterprise of the future need to be well versed in the principles of project and programme management. Importantly, as programme offices in the organisational structure grow in numbers, the need for an executive position where programme managers report increases. It would be unthinkable that they all report to the CEO who, according to the IBM survey, is already “bombarded by change” and “struggling to cope”. The emergent role of Chief Programme Officer or “CPO” aims to solve this problem.