Live Webinar – July 7th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 7th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Does learning transfer from one project to another? If so, how? Projects are temporary organisations. Evidence suggests that as projects transition from planning and building, to their running phases, a lot of explicit and implicit knowledge is lost. The result is institutional amnesia.

James G. March, the admired Stanford Professor of organisational behaviour, advanced the idea of “myopia of learning” in companies. March found that organisations have a tendency to be short-sighted in learning across the three dimensions of space, time, and failure. Project organisations tend not to learn easily, and when they do, they overweight learnings from nearby (vs far-away) places; recent (vs historical) examples; and success (vs failure) stories.

This webinar will discuss the challenges of learning across projects; the underlying root causes of poor knowledge flows; and present a potential technological cure to help institutionalise knowledge in projects.

Presenter:  Dr Atif Ansar, (LinkedIn profile) Founding Director, Oxford’s Programme on Sustainable Capital-Intensive Industries. Atif’s expertise is on the confluence of large physical assets and technology. In particular, he is interested in how big capital projects have the potential to improve their performance and productivity, across their whole life-cycle, with the use of technologies such as big data, shared platforms, automation, and Artificial Intelligence. Atif’s research is widely cited and features regularly in the media.  He is the Chairman and co-founder of Foresight Works & is a Fellow of Keble College, University of Oxford.  He is Founding Director of Oxford’s Programme on Sustainable Capital-Intensive Industries, & Senior Fellow of the MSc in Major Programme Management at Oxford Saïd Business School. Dr Ansar is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University & a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.

Previous presentations and webinars can be viewed on the APM Slideshare and YouTube channels.

This event is suitable for professionals with a beginners’ level of experience.

Click to register for:
Project Knowledge Management

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.