sustainability in project management

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Sustainability in Project Sustainability in Project ManagementManagement

Gilbert SilviusGilbert Silvius


Who’s talking?46 years of age, 2 kidsEducation:

• Royal Military Academy• MSc Economics (Erasmus University)• MBA (Catholic University Leuven)• PhD (Utrecht University)

Experience:• Royal Army (1981 – 1993)• Getronics (1993 – 2004)• Utrecht University of Applied Sciences

(2002 – today)• Van Aetsveld (2004 - today)

Interests:• Business IT Alignment• Project Management• Entrepreneurship in developing areas

Gilbert SilviusProfessor of

Business, ICT and InnovationProgram Director

Master of Project ManagementPrincipal consultant

Van [email protected]


AgendaIntroduction

Why study Project Management?

Sustainability in Project Management

Key concepts

Implications


Utrecht Business

School


Chair of Business, ICT and Innovation

We We inspireinspire and and innovateinnovate

educationeducation and and business practicebusiness practice


Fields of activities

Appliedresearch

Education

Businesspractice


Why study Project Management?

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

The pace of change

is increasing


Why study Project Management? (2)The dominant way of organising change is in projectsProjects and project management are becoming a crucial activity of organisationsProject management is underdeveloped in academic education in the BeneluxUtrecht University of Applied Sciences organises the first accredited Master of Project Management program in the Netherlands 8


Support


Sustainability inProject Management

Is that doing projects on sustainable development?


Why?Sustainability is without doubt one of the most important challenges of our time and the immediate future. How can we develop prosperity, without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating ideas of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, annual reports and in their actions. It is for that reason inevitable that ‘sustainability’ will find it’s way to project management methodologies and practices in the very near future.


Society level

Corporate level

Why?

Individual level

Project level


Sustainability?•What is sustainability in management or development?

•What are elements to take into account?

•Underlying concepts or insights?

•Definition?


Sustainability?World Commission on Environment and Development: "forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."

International Institute for Sustainable Development: “Adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders today while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.”


Key conceptsSustainability is about balancing or harmonizing social, environmental and economical interests


People, Planet, Profit

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Sustainable_development.svg


People, Planet, Profit


Key conceptsSustainability is about balancing or harmonizing social, environmental and economical interests

Sustainability takes into account the full life-cycle of the project / asset / product at hand


Life cycle thinking"forms of progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."

•Carin Labuschagne •Life-cycle thinking•On different interacting levels


Interacting lifecycles


Sustainability?•What is sustainability in management or development?

•What are elements to take into account?

•Underlying concepts or insights?

•Definition?


Local Society

Global Society

Mygeneration

Nextgenerations

SustainableProject Management

Stakeholders

Exploitation& Management

ModernProject Management

Projectmanager

Project

Organisation/ Company

Projectphase

Projectdelivery

TraditionalProject Management

Scop

e

Time horizon

Sustainable Project Management


Sustainable Project Management

The management of project-organized change

in policies, assets or organizations,

with consideration of the economical, social and environmental impact

of the project, its result and its effect,

for now and future generations


So what?


Implications•Sustainability in Project Management processes and methodologies


The PMBok•What do we find about sustainability in the PMBok?

•Where would we expect to find indications of sustainability?

•What role can/should the guild play?



•Sustainability in Project Management reporting


ResearchDeveloping indicators for incorporating the concepts of sustainability in project management

People Planet ProfitSocial

sustainabilityEnvironmentalsustainability

Economicsustainability

The Project

I ts Result

I ts Effect


Reporting?

http://www.globalreporting.org/



•Sustainability in Project Management reporting

•Sustainability in Project Management competencies


Development of Project Management Competences


Sustainability in Project Management

Are YOU Are YOU up to the up to the challengechallenge

??


Questions?


Contact informationGilbert Silvius

•Padualaan 101•3584 CH Utrecht•+31 30 2586465•[email protected]

•www.gilbertsilvius.nl•www.masterpm.nl

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http://www.gilbertsilvius.nl/

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