The Master is back! Two years ago when Mr. Stephen Law kicked off our Advanced Project Management Seminar Series with the uncommon topic “A Common Sense Approach to Managing Projects" he drew a crowd of 250 attendees. He is now back with another advanced PM topic - How to make use of advanced PMIS to manage complex projects.
Next generation project management information systems (PMIS) are more readily capable of dealing with high complexities and uncertainties than the older project management tools. These new platforms are expanding their scope from planning to the entire project life cycle from planning, execution, monitoring & controlling to closing. The modern PMIS allows different levels of information transparencies to influence people's behaviors under different situations. Rather than assuming that the future is just like the past and that using past data is sufficient to control the future, modern practices encourage communications and foster personal involvement. Different levels of information transparencies for different situations allow users to deal with unexpected changes and solve unexpected problems.
The seminar will include five industry specific PMIS case studies:
- Government Program Management for Electronic Health Records
- Large Construction Project Mgmt
- Integrated Business and Project Mgmt Platform for Telecom
- Project and Material Mgmt for Manufacturers
- Project and Program Mgmt for Fast Changing Financial Service Industry
About the Speaker:
Mr. Stephen Law is currently the CEO of WisageTech. Prior to co-founding WisageTech in Hong Kong 2004, he was the Head (CIO) of IT/Systems at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. Prior to his return to Hong Kong in 2001, he had worked 25 years in the U.S. and had held executive level positions at companies such as Perkin Elmer, Concurrent Computer, DEC, Citibank, Perot Systems and InterWorld.
Stephen started his career as a software engineering researcher in Bell Labs in the U.S. and had led both methodology and tools development efforts. As part of his successful management career, he had managed many large projects in different environment settings. Stephen believes that effective project management requires the skills of applying the right practices to the right environment. He thinks that people should not blindly memorize best practices but learn how to read project environments, make effective judgment and tradeoffs and introduce useful tools to detect problems and control execution.
Stephen has accumulated enormous wealth of management experience and knowledge over his 30-year career in large multinationals as well as technology start-ups. He is the author of the book entitled 8thManage: How to Surpass India and U.S. in Software?published by Tsinghua University Press in China, Cosmos Books Ltd. in Hong Kong in 2006 and PSIG in Taiwan in 2008. Stephen has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Mathematics (double majors) from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Special thanks to Cisco Webex for sponsoring the online event.
