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AFTER PM SUMMIT 2018 ANKARA

The project management conference PM Summit 2018 Ankara was held in the Turkish capital during 22-23 June 2018.  It was a huge success.  Below are some highlights from this big annual event in Turkey

Levent Erkan

 ANGEL INVESTOR AND ENTREPRENEUR

 Title: “Best time for Change is the time that you think the Change is not necessary”

 I had a privelege to speak at the Opening Session of the Project Management Summit in Turkey. I had two messages and a real life case study to share with.

It is a definite fact that “Change” is necessary when you think that your business is not doing well. The best time for change is when you think that everything runs perfect and Change is not necessary. In fact, it is usually the time where you feel like your work is doing great and things are moving forward.

If you are a learning organization, you can keep getting feedback from all your stakeholders to improve yourself constantly. So, when exactly is the time to make changes for real improvement in your business? It is said easier than done; when you have an investment budget that is high, when all stakeholders including your staff, clients, investors, public believe in you as a strong institution, you can hire Professionals to make “real change”. It is usually riskier and almost mandatory to make the change – when your finances are not doing well and you need to close a department, stop producing one of your products, downsize or etc. The real improvement can come to your business, when there is the motivation level is high in your company with sufficient budget to make investment to improve even further when you feel like you are doing pretty good. That’s why, the best time for change to improve your business is when people feel that the company is doing well and there is no need for any change.

With this consideration, I changed the concept of PMO, EPMO or similar names in my new organization. There is no Project Management Office or Enterprise Project Management Office. There is now Continous Improvement Project Office (CIP Office). This also implies a mental change that people should be focused on for improvement. In fact, this way of thinking stresses that improvement should be continous in each unit of your business. All stakeholders should understand this mental change and utilize it very simply in daily life to continiously improve our Business. We need to learn as a business to find new ways to improve continuously.

Project Management Ankara Summit’s concept was Learning Organizations. And if you can apply this concept to your organizations, you will always be aware what needs to be changed or improved continiously. Your CIP Offices will finalize improvement areas and map them out with your continuously improved strategies. Then, who will implement these improvement areas as mapped to your strategies? Tha answer of course is your Project Management Teams at your CIP Offices.

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Source: https://pmworldjournal.net/article/after-pm-summit-2018-ankara/