The conference witnesses a largest gathering of industry leaders, academicians, visionaries and professionals in project management
Mumbai, November 30, 2015: The Chennai Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project management profession, recently held their fourth edition of state level project management conference in Chennai. The conference theme was, ‘Harnessing People Power for Project Success’.
Today organisations across industries work in projectized culture, it is an era where established methodologies and framework are no longer solely responsible for accomplishing projects. PMI’s Pulse of the Profession™ In-Depth Report: Talent Management, explores the link between alignment of talent management strategy to project management performance and organizational success. It reveals that high-performing organizations are more than twice as likely than low-performing organizations (69% and 31%) to have talent management programs aligned to organizational strategy.
As reported by PMI’s Project Management Talent Gap Report, between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 million new project management roles will be created globally across seven project-intensive industries. Along with this significant job growth will be a momentous growth in the economic footprint of the profession, which is slated to grow by USD 6.61 trillion. While these figures are impressive, if organizational leadership fails to equip employees with the skillsets required to fill future project management roles, USD 344.08 billion in GDP will be at risk.
As a result, CEOs are shifting their attention to human capital and talent management activities:
1) CEOs agree that human capital is the number one challenge globally
2) 71 percent of CEOs see human capital as a key source of sustained economic value
3) 77 percent of global CEOs anticipate making changes to their talent management strategies, with 23 percent planning major changes
So with an aim to focus on the importance of human capital and talent management in the success of projects, the subject theme of this year’s conference, ‘Harnessing People Power for Project Success’ was derived.
The lighting of inaugural lamp by the dignitaries was followed by a welcome address by Mr. Ramasubramaniam P – President, PMI Chennai Chapter. The day witnessed industry views, invited speeches, a Panel Discussion on – Success factors and challenges in hHHHHHjkhsdfj arnessing people power along with a Debate Session on – Project success depends on people’s passion or experience.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Ramasubramaniam P – President, PMI Chennai Chapter said, “The chapter’s experience along with the passion and vision of our veteran team has helped us in successfully conducting Chennai’s fourth state level project management conference. Understanding the importance of human capital and talent management in project success we arrived at the theme for this year’s conference. PMI Chennai Chapter will continue to put in efforts for future ocassions which would provide project management professionals a platform to learn, grow, network and share.”
Commenting on the Conference Mr. Raj Kalady, Managing Director, PMI India said, “It is a moment of pride to see the local chapters of PMI India growing and becoming more credible over the years. Project management is a profession of continuous learning and the gathering of industry leaders, academicians, visionaries and professionals during these conferences helps one and all to evolve continuously with the changing times. In today’s complex and competitive global marketplace, technical skills are simply not enough. Companies are seeking added skills in leadership and business intelligence to support longer range strategic objectives that contribute to the bottom line. The three critical project management skillsets needed for successful projects are technical project management skills, leadership skills, and strategic and business management skills. However, many organizations (over 90 percent) believe that technical project management skills and strategic and business management skills are teachable, and as such, are likely to search for talent with good leadership skills whose technical project management and strategic and business management skills can be honed through training.”
The high profile keynote address during the conference include; Mr. Sudheer Warrier, Sr. VP & Head Utilities, TCS, Ms Julie Owen – President – AACE International, USA; Mr. Raja Krishnamoorthy – HR Director, Talent Maximus; Ms. Sadhana Somasekhar – Director, Future Focus Infotech; Mr. KRSR Krishna – VP, Petrofac; Ms. Saichitra S – CTO, Bharat Matrimony; Mr. C K Kumaravel – CEO and Co-Founder, Naturals Salon and Spa; Mr. Aditya Maheswaran – Consultant at Hay Group; Mr. T Saranaga Rajan, Vice President, TAFE; Mr. Jacob – Chief People Officer, Apollo Hospitals; Mr. Dinesh Ganesan – VP, Hexaware Technologies; Mr. VTCS Rao – CEO & Managing Partner, Shreshta Solutions & Mr. A V Ravikumar, Managing Director, Flyjac Logistics, Hitachi Transport Systems Group.
About Tamil Nadu Project Management Conference 2015:
The PMI Chennai Chapter hosts the largest project management conference in Tamil Nadu. The theme for the fourth edition of the state level project management conference is “Harnessing People Power for Project Success”. In most projects today, the efficiency of the project management framework & tools and the overall execution of the project finally relies on the performance of the people involved. This nowadays also extends to the large set of stakeholders that are culturally and geographically diverse making this a complex and sensitive aspect for project managers to handle.
Enterprises worldwide have realized the importance of harnessing the people power to achieve consistent project success. In this conference, we aim to understand the different ways and strategies that successful leaders have used to get the best out of their human resources.
Highlights:
- Attended by over 300 project management professionals across the state
- Industry Experts, CXO’s from various domains sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience
- Multiple formats including key note addresses ,panel discussions, debates, with Q&A sessions
For more information: http://pmichennai.org/pmi/event/tamil-nadu-project-management-conference-2015/
About PMI:
PMI is the world’s leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the project, program and portfolio management profession. PMI delivers value for more than 2.9 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world through global advocacy, collaboration, education and research. For more information log on to: www.pmi.org.in