Our Major Projects Leadership Forum – Reform Roadmap will transform the Australian Major Projects sector and improve project leadership within the industry. It outlines a series of recommendations organised into the three themes of Productivity, Collaboration, and Outcomes:
Outcomes – measuring and reporting on social value
- Developing best practice
- Measuring intangibles
- Telling the story
Productivity – shifting the focus from productivity on site to efficiency of service provision
- Service delivery
- Pipeline
- Procurement
Collaboration – engendering the behaviours to increase the likelihood of success
- Cultural shift
- Leadership education
- Transparency and accountability
On Thursday 15 February this year we held our Major Projects Leadership Forum, where we brought together a group of 50 senior governmental and industry leaders within the mega projects sector to discuss and workshop solutions to the problems prevalent in the field.
We worked on collating the ideas and thoughts shared in the Forum and have used them to develop this Reform Roadmap to plot a step-by-step action plan to address the issues within the industry.
Further elaborations on these recommendations can be found in the roadmap. To implement these items, we have organised three working groups based on each of the themes to plan out and action the steps to be taken to improve the Australian major projects landscape.
On Tuesday 20 August 2024, we officially launched the Roadmap through an online panel discussion. The session consisted of an introduction to the Roadmap and a panel discussion featuring: Graeme Newton (CEO of Cross River Rail Delivery Authority), Tim Parker (CEO of High Speed Rail Authority), and David Watt (General Manager – Commercial of Queensland Hydro).