Gareth Alden

Systems Manager, Central IT
GlaxoSmithKline 

Implementing Project Portfolio Management

Wednesday 25th April 2007, 15.20 - 16.00

This case study presentation will provide attendees with a deeper understanding of how GlaxoSmithKline have implemented a Project Portfolio Management software solution. Delegates can hear how the solution has helped GlaxoSmithKline gain real-time visibility over their project and resource activity allowing them to align operational processes with strategic goals in order to ensure maximum efficiency.

This presentation is aimed at executives and business leaders who need to manage projects as business investments and to measure their impact on the bottom line. It is also for programme, project and resource portfolio managers who need to improve their methods of managing multi-project and resource environments and to ensure that they are able to make their projects accountable to the business.

Speaker Biography 

Gareth Alden joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2002 working in UK Shared Financial Services and then moving over to ETCM (Engineering, Technology & Capital Management) in early 2005 as Capital & Project Controls Analyst. Since then he has been the ETCM Capital Manager and has recently taken over the position of Systems Manager. He is responsible for the electronic systems and processes employed both within ETCM and across Global Manufacture and Supply. As part of this role he has been involved in implementing Atlantic Global's Project Portfolio Management software application "Corporate Vision" to assist ETCM in resource management.