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"World-Class Project Management in the 21st Century"

A fun and motivational speech outlining how modern realities enhance traditional challenges - but also shape effective ways to manage them.

Target Audience:

General Business Audiences, IT and Project Team Members, and their Managers

Dare to lose control

Everything goes fine - and suddenly it spins out of control. Exponentially growing data processing and communication capabilities challenge your ability to stay on top of things. What can you do?

Social systems show an amazing similarity to the "hard sciences." This also demands a new thinking about project management.

...and start to manage

Berthold Kastel explains how a look at the big picture beats sweating the small stuff. He also points out why:

1 % of the data and activities drive 50% of the project outcome and risk

Projects cannot be controlled, and

Smart technology requires smart management.

Important Definitions

"Enterprise Project"

A project of an enterprise that is integrated into the complete business ecosystem.

What does that mean for 21st century projects?

New Ideas

Changing Nature of Project Management

Project and program management in the 21st century already has substantially different characteristics to the 20th century. Rapid technology advances are changing the playing field.

Traditional project management applications are insufficient to deal with the tasks at hand. While 4^th generation, back-end integrated, applications are not even yet widely implemented, the first 5th Generation collaborative system solutions start taking shape.