How to apply strategic management to your portfolios of projects and programmes


How to apply strategic management to your portfolios of projects and programmes

Description: As project management has continued to develop it has broadened to encompass portfolios, programmes and projects. A structure has emerged through which corporate strategy can be cascaded all the way from top to bottom of the organisation. Shane will begin by discussing some of the basic principles of strategic management and then explain how to apply strategic management to an organisations portfolios of projects and programmes. Throughout his talk, Shane will describe a number of informative and useful processes and tools and also consider the human aspects

Date: 08-July-20

Time: 1 PM to 2 PM BST

 

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Shane Forth
FAPM, FACostE, MSc
Principal Consultant
About the Speaker

A Fellow of both APM and ACostE, Shane is a recognised expert in project controls, with 40 years engineering and construction experience for leading global businesses. In 2019 Shane established GO FORTH, to provide consultancy services to industry, public sector education, academia, to help them develop the skills of and build the next generation of project management and controls practitioners. Whilst in industry, Shane was responsible for strategic and functional leadership in project management and controls, His last two roles were 5-years as PMO Director for Costain and 5-years as Project Controls Head of Function at AMEC. Shane continues to sit on professional, technical and academic working groups, speaks at UK and international conferences and events, lecture at universities, and works with industry to develop training and career development programmes. He also contributes to project management text books. For his MSc in Project Management, awarded in 2013 from the University of Manchester, he won the Stephen Wearne award for best overall performance. National acclaim followed with the APM Geoffrey Trimble award for best Master’s post-graduate dissertation. Shane has been honoured by the ECITB, winning a national award for individual leadership and significant contribution to training and development. A driving force in implementation of national project controls apprenticeship and graduate programmes, Shane was chair of the employer-led Project Controls Trailblazer Group from 2014 to 2019.