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The Project Manager June/July 2010 President's Message
Project management without borders
The world is changing rapidly in business, environmental, and social terms. Issues from financial crises to global climatic change force corporations, governments, and professional institutions to interact and work transnationally to resolve resulting impacts.
The AIPM is one of the leading project management institutions globally. It has also recognised the need to take a more global perspective and work to build international partnering capability. Recognising its responsibility to drive project management development and professionalism locally, regionally and internationally, it has embarked on a number of initiatives, becoming the second largest member of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and, just recently, a key initiator of the newly launched Asia Pacific Federation of Project Management (APFPM).
Another demonstrably international linkage has been the establishment of a cooperative relationship with RedR Australia, an organisation that sends project managers, along with other professionals, into humanitarian fi eld service around the world after major disasters.
These partnerships provide opportunities for promoting project management broadly. A typical example is in the promotion and development of globally recognised project management competency certification standards. The AIPM, IPMA and the new APFPM, recognise and promote the importance of competency-based certification as the leading form of certification available. It is the most likely to give industry and government confi dence in the selection of appropriately skilled project managers for any task, particularly useful where projects are complex or have a critical end value.
As the world struggles to resolve an increasing number of crises, confronts huge, unfolding environmental challenges, and better embraces the opportunities that technology enables, it will require and demand more, and more skilled, project managers who will need to develop even greater competency to manage the resulting complexity and risk.
We must be prepared to work more strategically and effectively across borders to face the challenges and opportunities the world will expose us to—it is our future.
Dr Bill Young Return to The Project Manager Information |
