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  • Back to the Future

Back to the Future. Projects in Innovation: Innovation in Projects.

Inaugural lecture from Professor Tim Brady

Published: 15 October 2014

Event: 18 November 2014

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Projects are used extensively in both the private and public sector for a wide range of outcomes; to achieve organisational change; to develop new products and services; to improve processes; and to implement technological change. Projects can be a flexible way of managing one-off activities on a temporary basis being particularly useful as vehicles for innovation and learning.

Within academia, recent research has suggested that projects are growing in quantity, complexity and variety reflecting the increased recognition of projects as an important but under-appreciated organisational form. Project management therefore represents a significant proportion of business activity across a range of sectors. However, from IT and software to construction, financial services to defence, we find high-profile examples of cost and budget overruns, delayed schedules and failure to deliver expected benefits.

This lecture will examine this seeming paradox. Projects are all about imagining a future state and we are never short of ideas about how things might be but actually achieving that state is a far trickier endeavour full of uncertainty and unpredictability. Professor Brady imagines a future where projects and programs are managed better and takes a backwards look into the history of project management to get some clues as to how this might be achieved.

Tim Brady inaugural lecture

Tim Brady
Professor of Innovation

Tuesday 18 November at 6.30pm

Sallis Benney Theatre
University of Brighton
58-67 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 0JY

For any queries please email events@brighton.ac.uk.

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