Inter-cultural Games in Project Management

  • January 24, 2021 - 1:00pm
  • Online via Zoom

Project Culture is probably one of the most important elements when executing a project. Gamification is one idea to overcome the “games” people play when working together in projects. Especially if it comes to multinational projects this topic needs specific and conscious focus. After this workshop, the participants will have an inside knowledge regarding Project Culture, understand the pitfalls and how to avoid them and gain knowledge in the difference of Western and Asian Project Culture and how to overcome the usual “games”.

Agenda: 

Session One 

Leading in the project context.
Games in intercultural Project teams.

Coffee Break

Session Two

Success factors for virtual collaboration & online tool to enable them

Session Three: 

Tension between freedom and responsibility & online tool to deal with it

Coffee Break

Session Four:

Online Collaboration Tools in a Nutshell

Walter SedlacekWalter Sedlacek was responsible for the Governance and Enhancement of the holistic ICT Security Framework ESARIS after his 3 year successful global transformation towards this Framework as a Project Manager. He has a Master of Science in Telecommunication Management from the Danube University of Krems, and a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Vienna, as well as an MBA from Alaska Pacific University. Walter joined T-Systems in 2007 as the Head of Desktop Services Factory, T-Systems Austria where he introduced Change Management in order to align local DSS internationally and to enable innovation. In 2009 he took an assignment in the UK to build up the Project Management Organization. At T-Systems UK, he standardized Project Management Methodology for 70 Project Managers who ran 170 programs and projects. In 2010 he has been building international IT Engineering Labs around Virtualization Technologies in London, Barcelona, Zürich and Vienna, and has also established international steering of Nearshore entities. From 2012 to 2014 he was the Head of Production Operations for T-Systems Singapore and introduced Cloud Based Managed Desktop Services as well as Cloud Computing in general (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).  Prior to his work at T-Systems, Walter Sedlacek was an IT Infrastructure Manager and subsequently the CIO of General Motors Powertrain Austria. Since 2005, Walter has been teaching classes in technical and management subjects as a guest lecturer at the Danube University of Krems as well as several vocational colleges. He also has extensive experience abroad including France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and South-East Asia.

Inter-cultural Games in Project Management

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Date: Sunday January 24, 2021
Time: 13:00 – 20:00
Fees: 4000 THB for members; 5000 THB for non-members
Location: Virtual LIVE using Zoom
PDUs: 7 Leadership PDUs

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This event qualifies for 7 Leadership PDUs. If you are a PMI Thailand Chapter member, these PDUs will be registered for you by the Chapter. If you are not a member, you will have to submit these PDUs yourself. For more information on how to submit PDUs, follow this guideline.

EVENT INFO :

  • Speaker:Walter Sedlacek
  • Start Date:January 24, 2021
  • Start Time:1:00pm
  • End Date:January 24, 2021
  • End Time:8:00pm
  • Location:Online via Zoom
  • Website:pmithai.org
  • Organizer:Walter Sedlacek
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