Chris Edwards

Professor in Management Information Systems
Cranfield School of Management

Project portfolio management: creating order from the confusion of project overload

Wednesday 25th April 2007, 08.30 - 09.10 

If your organisation suffers from initiative overload that is spiralling out of control then this presentation is for you! It will help you understand how each initiative can be efficiently understood to reveal its true strategic alignment and how this can be combined to form an initiative portfolio which will provide management with the tools for effective prioritisation. Effectively this presentation is your first step towards dealing with initiative overload and creating an effective yet efficient portfolio of prioritised projects.

Speaker Biography 

Chris worked in industry for twelve years, involved in developing business systems. During that time he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and hence tended to specialise in financial information systems. He joined the Scottish Business School as a Lecturer in 1971. After receiving a PhD he moved to Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA and then to the Chair of Management Information Systems at Cranfield University.

His interests lie in IT-enabled business change, particularly in the role required of very senior organisational management to successfully action such change. Recently his focus has been the development of proposals for IT investments. In this area he has conducted seminars on IT-enabled change throughout the world. His talents lie in engaging senior management in the subject, in a non-technical and involving manner. Chris works with a multitude of organisations, ranging from medium sized commodity producers to the world's largest banks and pharmaceutical companies.