(By Andrea Prencipe, POCC Director and Associate Dean for International Development LUISS Business School)
On November 4th LUISS Business School has formally launched the Project Organising Competence Centre (POCC) with the aim to promote research, build theory, and support improvements in project practices by forging a close collaboration with industrial partners in Italy and internationally. The POCC reflects a recent growth in research and teaching expertise in project studies within the LUISS Business School and the University at large. It is being established to address a variety of issues concerned with project-based organising in firms and projects, including innovation, learning, capability building, and strategy.
The launch event has been well received: academics and project practitioners interacted and shared ideas and information on a variety of themes and topics. Dr. Mark Kozak-Holland delivered a very interesting lecture on impossible projects: using historical case studies, he drew implications and lessons to face current project management challenges. I have then chaired a round table discussion on Impossible Projects: Massimo Debenedetti (Fincantieri) highlighted the challenges for implementing innovation mind-set in a project-based organisation; Lill Von Bork (Ericsson) illustrated the synergistic contribution of tools and people for the delivery of impossible projects. The second round table discussion was centred on the Milan Expo 2015 – literally, an impossible project made possible: Marco Rettighieri (Italfer), Alberto Prina (Telecome Italia), Alessandro Francolini (Ericsson) remarked the importance of effective project management, team work, and effort and commitment of individuals.
I should think that the November 4th launch event signed a good start in terms of topic and approach: POCC’s faculty is convinced that by linking industry and academia to co-create new knowledge generate the basis to advance the knowledge frontier in project studies to inform project practices and approaches. POCC and PMI will host the 4th International MegaProjects Workshop on 19-20 May 2016 at LUISS Business School.
9/11/2015
