Registration Details - APM Wessex Network: Going down with the ship

This is a cautionary true tale of how two swashbuckling heroes – Richard Branson and Chay Blyth, juggled between Project Management and Enthusiasm Leadership. The idea was brilliant – the Americans love everything British and they love Tall Ships – why not combine the two and create a floating Harrods and take it over to the U.S! The concept was brilliant, the enthusiasm was overwhelming, the teamwork was magnificent, the outsourcing high– however, bad things can happen if you call in the Project manager too late.

This is a hugely entertaining story told by the project manager who was called in half way through to “save the ship”. It charts the course of this brilliant project through its early rocky start, through the plain sailing phase and ultimately it’s untimely fate in a storm of risk. Lessons to be learnt from this case study include managing extreme stakeholders, innovative funding, project control and how to have fun whilst losing money!

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Stephen Carver, Visiting Fellow, Cranfield University

Stephen is rated as one of the top 3 lecturers at one of Europe’s top MBA Business Schools. He has a reputation of taking complex management concepts such as Project, Programme and Crisis Management and being able to distil them down, into highly informative and fun lectures - often using “storytelling” techniques. His attitude is “if you haven’t done it – you shouldn’t be teaching it”.

Unusually, for an academic, he has actually spent most of his working life in real business and has worked in almost all sectors and technologies.

Stephen is an unusual blend of Academic, Businessman and Teller of Tales. He has taught worldwide, has appeared regularly on National Radio, TV and YouTube.

APM Wessex Network: Going down with the ship

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