Seminar "Managing Megaproject in Developing Countries"

AIT SEMINAR
Ho Chi Minh city

MANAGING MEGAPROJECT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Presented by Prof. Christian Brockman, University of Applied Science, Germany 

Last 10 April 2013 in HCMC, MPM successfully organized a seminar about Managing Megaproject in Developing Country with presenter came from University of Applied Science, Bremen, Germany, Prof. Christian Brockman. He has more than 20 years professional experience in Construction Project Management and joined the Megaproject in Qatar in several years. 

The Qatar Integrated Railway project with a volume of 35 billion US dollars serves to explain specific aspects of megaprojects. Qatar is on the one hand one of the richest nations worldwide so that financing is no problem, on the other hand the country has no railway institutions or knowledge. After this introductory example, a discussion and an understanding of the term “complexity” are required to gain access to the problems of megaprojects. One mind frame enables us to build a management model for megaprojects. Such a model allows participating managers to focus attention and to achieve a better outcome. The model contains the required engineering tasks, management functions, meta-functions, basic functions and cultural influences.

Prof. Christian is very happy when sharing his knowledge and experience to participants who had been very interesting of this topic and had many discussions after the presentation. We do hope he will support us to come back Vietnam again for expert seminars in near future.

Presented by Prof. Christian Brockman