What You'll Learn:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Projects
• How best-in-class firms earn 5 times the net income of others
• Top 3 key performance indicators of project health
• How to move from reactive to proactive

• Project processes to allow your team to shine
• Three Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of project health
• Making the leap from reactive to proactive project management
• How best in class firms measure project performance
• How to determine the Project Manager's role in profitability

The following are key findings from Aberdeen Group’s survey of users of product portfolio management (PPM) solutions in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries:

• Buyers of next-generation PPM solutions are very interested in enter-prisewide benefits. However, if they let project managers roll out the new solutions one project at a time, they are susceptible to underachiev-ing their potential value.
• One of the contributing factors to the construction industry’s low pro-ductivity rate is the stand-alone nature of technologies used in this in-dustry.
• Project managers look to optimize the results of their project(s) and not necessarily the enterprise that employs them.
• Huge benefits (e.g., expediting payments from customers, maximum utilization of equipment) are possible when AEC firms implement PPM solutions with an eye toward enterprise optimization.

• How to get the "real" end date and avoid liquidated damages
• Understand the limitations of CPM scheduling that your competitors don't know
• Create "what if" scenarios to find schedule reduction opportunities
• Learn how one company won the project by being the highest cost provider

Join Peter Spiegelenberg, Planning & Contracting Team Manager-Huntsman and Jan Hop, Senior Consultant-IMPRESS Software and Primavera to review:

• How Huntsman improved maintenance worker productivity
• What planning methods and processes were put in place
• How Huntsman utilizes an integrated SAP - Primavera solution to better manager maintenance planning operations

Join Max Kaulback, SAP PM and Application Development Team Leader and Martin Stenzig, Global Presales Manager to learn how the integration of SAP and Primavera helped Agrium implement best practices in turnaround management:

• Institute real-time schedule management based on actual measured field progress, changes in actual durations, and scope changes.
• Incorporate all turnaround activities, including unit shutdown, start-up, maintenance tasks, and project work into a single schedule.
• Improve communication between maintenance, contractors, operations and engineering

Join Clive Ewing, Director Client Services - Labor Logix and Paul Gilhooley, Director of European Operations - Aker Kvaerner to learn how the integration of Primavera and SAP help maintenance intensive organizations improve plant productivity. Other benefits that will be discussed are:

• Improved employee morale quality of work
• Accurate project financial systems metrics
• Improved resource visibility across projects and activities

Introduction

In today's global market, the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) operations are spreading around the world. Not only marketing and production, but also design and development are influenced by globalisation. New challenges are emerging constantly, which require global solutions for geographically distributed building design and construction. Due to the global nature of the current building construction and the evolving impact of IT on the design process, the AEC design project activities are continuously changing. These activities require support with communication, interaction, integration, design facilities, and shared up-to-date design specification. IT facilities such as the Internet can potentially provide integrated collaboration environments satisfying these requirements.