Inertia & Entropy, a Deadly Poison for the Organization and its Remedy Organizational Agility

In the afternoon, we also offer a Workshop with Olivier Lazar on
Portfolio Management / Focus on strategy and prioritization

Details on the workshop and a reduced combi-ticket can be found on the event page.

In the implementation of Organizational Strategy, and its execution throughout Portfolio Management, companies encounter two major pitfalls:

Organizational Inertia and Organizational Entropy.

Organizational Inertia is the factor reducing the readiness and reactivity of an organization to confront its dynamic business environment. Organizational Entropy is the aspect reducing the level of control and blurring the strategic horizon. The combination of these two factors leads to ineffectiveness, wastes and inefficiencies. Let's explore how the Portfolio governance must be structured to support the organization in countering these dreadful effects and gain Organizational Agility and Change Readiness.

Learning Objectives:
By participating (not only attending) to this lecture, participants will be allowed to:

1. Understand how the entropy and inertia factors in their organization affect their ability to execute their organization's strategy, or even formulate it. They will be also able to identify these factors and their root causes.

2. Define how a properly defined Portfolio Management governance supported by their PMO can contribute in reducing organizational inertia and entropy, and thus contribute directly to enhance immediate results in terms of, but not limited to: Time to market, productivity, profitability, reduction of the opportunity cost, increase in employee retention rate, etc.

3. Being capable of defining a proper 90 days’ action plan to reframe their Portfolio Management governance and their PMO's strategy and direct contribution to this organizational enhancement, having also as a consequence to establish a sustainable business model and business case for their PMO and the overall organizational effectiveness endeavor.

About our speaker - Olivier Lazar

He is an organizational architecture consultant, coach, and trainer, as well as a graduate with a master’s degree and an executive MBA in strategy, project, and program management from the Lille Graduate School of Management and from the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class 2013. Committed to the advancement of the profession, he’s managing partner and COO at the Valense Palatine Group, acting Project Management Director at Altran AG in Switzerland, a former president at the PMI Switzerland Chapter, and has hold various global volunteering leadership roles at PMI and is a contributor to several PMI Global Standards.

Olivier Lazar

PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, PMP, PgMP, PfMP

With more than 20 years of Organizational Governance, Change, Project and Program Leadership experience, both on the operational and consulting perspective, Olivier has worked in a large scope of industries where he has created organizationally agile environments fostering engagement, motivation and performance.

Olivier’s leitmotiv lies in his conviction that sharing Knowledge is a major factor for global performance and common development, organizational and personal.

Agenda

• 18:00 Doors open / Registration
• 18.30 Start of Event
• 18:45 Lecture
• 20:00 Q&A
• 20:15 Networking Apéro

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Event Language: English

Professional Development Units: 2

• Leadership: 0.5
• Strategic & Business Management: 1
• Technical Project Management: 0.5

Please be aware that at the event photos of the audience are made and published on the PMI Switzerland homepage as well as on Facebook. The event may also be live broadcasted over Facebook. With your attendance you accept these conditions.

Event fee discounts:

• If your are PMI-CH member, please log in with your PMI-CH member account at www.pmi-switzerland.ch and enter the event from there in order to benefit from the membership discount.
• A 20% discount on the ticket will be offered if you participate to both the afternoon workshop and this evening lecture.

Cancellation policy:
100% refund is possible for a ticket if cancelled 5 days before the event.

In the afternoon, we also offer a Workshop with Olivier Lazar on
Portfolio Management / Focus on strategy and prioritization

Details on the workshop and a reduced combi-ticket can be found on the event page.