The series of International Symposia are designed to share the latest thinking on project leadership across an international research, policy and practice community. The main audience for this online symposium is our international peers; a secondary audience is the international professional bodies and key client organisations. One outcome should also be to identify and set ...
The series of International Symposia are designed to share the latest thinking on project leadership across an international research, policy and practice community. The main audience for this online symposium is our international peers; a secondary audience is the international professional bodies and key client organisations. One outcome should also be to identify and set ...
Mark Dodgson is currently Executive-in-Residence, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, Imperial College London; Broman Scholar, University of Gothenburg; and Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland. He has written or edited 19 books and 100+ articles on innovation, and studied and taught innovation in over 60 countries. He has advised numerous governments around the world and has been ...
The construction industry has a bad reputation for failing to meet traditional targets of quality, cost and time, and also for lack of innovation in processes, methods and materials. The reality is not quite so bleak, but it is certainly the case that there is little formal research. And yet we are now facing the greatest challenge the industry has ever had to meet, that of climate change.
Projects possess an inherent creation power. They enable us to establish new hospitals or schools, build or rebuild all kinds of infrastructure and organize for sustainable transformation. Especially Mega Projects are forces of societal change and support us in turning ideas into life. The presentation discusses challenges and opportunities of delivering infrastructure and offers stakeholder-orientation as an essential principle in contemporary Project Management.