Program Number: C020-17052016
New Skills for the PM: Improvisational Activity within the
Project Domain
Category: A
Activity Sponsor: PMINJ Chapter (C020)
PDUs: - 1.5
Leadership - 0.0
Strategic - 1.5
Technical - 0.0
Bio:
Dr. Steve Leybourne, PhD. Professor of Innovation
and Project Management, Boston University
Dr. Steve Leybourne is a member of the faculty at Boston
University, where he teaches and researches into innovation
in project-based change, improvisational working practices,
and improvisational behaviour within the project
domain. He is considered to be an international
authority on organizational improvisation.
Steve is an editor of the Organizational Project Management
journal (formerly the Journal of Project, Program, and
Portfolio Management) and is an editorial board member of
the Project Management Journal, and the Journal of
Administrative Science & Technology. He has published
widely on the subject of improvisational work within the
project domain, and has presented his research at six PMI
Research Conferences, and ten Academy of Management
conferences. He was presented with ‘best paper’ awards
by the Academy of Management in 2006, and by the
International Management Development Association in 2009.
Steve was a ‘keynote’ speaker at the 5th Brazil National PM
Congress in October 2010, at the PMI Japan Academic Congress
in 2010, and at other PM events.
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