Lessons from a Giga Project
| Start date | 4-Feb-10 - 5:30 PM |
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| End date | 4-Feb-10 - 7:30 PM |
| Venue | Wesfarmers |
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10th Floor, Wesfarmers House 40 The Esplanade Perth, Western Australia Australia ![[ Gmaps marker icon ]](/i/gmap_marker_default.gif "Click to view the map")
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| Status | Open |
| RSVP | 2-Feb-10 |
| Restrictions | Limited to MBS alumni and their guests |
| Cost | Alumni $20 | Guests $30 |
| Contact | j.cosgrove@mbs.edu |
| Registration | Closed |
To start the year with a bang, the MBS WA Chapter is delighted to present the recently appointed Professor of Management (Organisational Behaviour) at MBS, Professor Robert E. Wood.
Bob is a true Australian leader in change management and ethical leadership; his presentation will focus on his work with the senior management team on the $35bn RTIP project - a collaboration between Dow Chemical and Saudi Aramco to construct the world's largest petro-chemical facility at Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia.
The project is part of a nation-building plan to take Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, into more downstream activities that will provide more advanced technological capabilities and more employment than oil production. Once completed, the project will be a Fortune top 50 company with annual revenue of $12bn. The project is so large that it will strain several global supplier markets (finance, pipes, engineering design, etc) for several years. His involvement was part of a process to get the project team back on track following an external review that assessed the project as at risk of failure.
Bob will talk about his work with the executives and the project team from the two companies and the insights he has gained around a range of topics, including:
- Why a 'giga' project? (Previous terminology stopped at mega projects)
- Defining owner intent when the project is 'the enterprise'
- Understanding risk, change and innovation on a giga project
- The limitations of traditional project management processes and mindsets
- Working with a cross cultural team - the impact of company and country cultures
- Concepts: "creating a third way"; the 4D organization; types of change; innovation mindsets
Refreshments will be provided from 5.30pm, with Bob's presentation beginning at 6pm (please note Wesfarmers closes its doors at 6pm). Afterwards, there will be time for questions.
Numbers are limited. If, for any reason on the day you are running behind time, please call the WA President, Craig Hook, on 0421 040863.
