The Ensemble Way
The Ensemble Way offers a systems thinking lens to the challenge of creating high performance in the planning and performance of work. It is made up of three component parts:
Operations: Ensemble uses Eli Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints as its operating philosophy. It incorporates Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), Drum Buffer Rope (DBR) production management and Dynamic Buffer Management (DBM) for supply chain replenishment. It incorporates Constraint Accounting (CA) as its management accounting toolset and the Logical Thinking Process (LTP) as the tool of choice for critical thinking.
Organisational Development: Ensemble draws heavily on the work of the MIT centre for organisational learning, including Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline approach, Ed Schein’s work on Leadership and Culture and Otto Scharmer’s work on Theory U.
Organisational Design: Ensemble’s work in organisational design is informed by Elliott Jaques Stratified Systems Theory and its associated texts on the Requisite Organization. It has more recently included the work of General Stanley McChrystal’s ideas contained in Team of Teams.
Your Presenter: David Hodes
David is CEO and Founder of Ensemble Consulting Group. David is a qualified system thinker and practitioner and certified expert in Theory of Constraints. David is author of the book More Than Just Work – Innovations in Productivity to Inspire Your People and Uplift Performance
Since founding Ensemble in 2000, David has led his team in planning and executing the work of billions of dollars of engineering and business management projects in Tier-1 Australian companies in the mining, banking, construction, manufacturing, retail, and aviation industries.
His work has enabled his clients to realise remarkable business value from his mission to relentlessly architect better ways to do better work.
David will a talk on how he use the principles of Systems Thinking to integrate Operations Management, Organisational Learning and Organisational Design into a methodology called The Ensemble Way
Look forward to seeing you at the event: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvceygqDwoHdfavVTbNetKCqzFvIipKVAR
PMI Sydney Chapter End of Year Christmas Event
Join Us for a Festive Evening on 3rd December 2021
We look forward to celebrating the first physical in-person event after long lockdowns with a cocktail canape party including entertainment, lucky draws and more.... We invite PMI Sydney current and immediate past non-current members (from 2019/20) including volunteers who have given their time to help stage PMI Sydney events, to register. Come and make this event a happy one for you and your fellow members.
PMI Sydney Toastmasters club is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
This meetup group lists club meetings and events. We are a friendly, welcoming group who are interested in improving our public speaking and leadership skills.
Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 6:15 PM.
Visiting the club for the first time is free of charge. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should the visitor is interested to be the member of the club going forward.
Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
PMI Sydney Toastmasters club is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
This meetup group lists club meetings and events. We are a friendly, welcoming group who are interested in improving our public speaking and leadership skills.
Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 6:15 PM.
Visiting the club for the first time is free of charge. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should the visitor is interested to be the member of the club going forward.
Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
PMI Sydney Toastmasters club is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
This meetup group lists club meetings and events. We are a friendly, welcoming group who are interested in improving our public speaking and leadership skills.
Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 6:15 PM.
Visiting the club for the first time is free of charge. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should the visitor is interested to be the member of the club going forward.
Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Frequency: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
PMI Sydney Toastmasters club is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
This meetup group lists club meetings and events. We are a friendly, welcoming group who are interested in improving our public speaking and leadership skills.
Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 6:15 PM.
Visiting the club for the first time is free of charge. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should the visitor is interested to be the member of the club going forward.
Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
Join us for a festive evening on 16th December 2022
PMI Sydney Chapter and its Members are celebrating the End of the Year and Christmas festivities. Please join us to celebrate and enjoy the event - like we always do!
This year we will have a music band 'Jazz Foundry' performing, a fascinating Magic Show, and some lucky draw gifts.
Lastly, there will be drinks and scrumptious dinner!
Don't miss the evening with your friends at PMI Sydney Chapter, saying goodbye to the year 2022 and welcoming 2023!
Date: Friday, 16th December 2022
Arrive: 6:00 PM
Dress Code: Business Casual or Dress to Impress
Location: Pullman Sydney Hyde Park, 36 College St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
9 min walk from St James Station
8 min walk from Townhall Station
4 min walk from Museum Station
Event Start: 6:30 PM
Event Closure: 10:00 PM or as advised by the MC
NOTE:
1- Please sign-in before clicking 'registeration'.
2- If you just renewed your membership, please wait for 24 hours at least. The pmisydney.org website data will sync with global database, once every 24 hours.
3- The event is 100% free for all PMI Sydney Chapter Members Only. (ensure you sign-in first)
4- 150 AUD for Non Members, and there is a 50% early bird discount.
5- Seats are limited, once the capacity is exhausted registeration will close.
PMI Sydney Toastmasters club is one of Toastmasters International clubs.
Toastmasters International (TI) is a USA headquartered educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking.
This meetup group lists club meetings and events. We are a friendly, welcoming group who are interested in improving our public speaking and leadership skills.
Whether your goal is to enhance your professional presentation skills, gain confidence in addressing an audience, we find that doing it in the company of like-minded people can be a lot of fun. Meetings include both impromptu and prepared speaking practice.
We meet in the city on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 6:15 PM.
Visiting the club for the first time is free of charge. Club officers are happy to support and provide detailed information should the visitor is interested to be the member of the club going forward.
Currently, the club's membership fee is A$90 per 6 months.
Venue: SMSA - Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Town Hall)
PMI Sydney Chapter Event
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Collaborative Design Approach Challenges for IT facilities in Construction
Join us in Parramatta for the PMI Sydney Chapter May event!
The next PMI SC event on 22nd May 2018 will be hosted in Parramatta, at the Western Sydney University City Campus, Parramatta, where Stuart Penny, Kerry Holling and Bill Parasiris will discuss collaborative design approach and delivery challenges for IT facilities in construction. The event will be hosted in the building that our three speakers contributed to delivery of during its construction.
Stuart, Program Manager – IT Transformation, Toyota Financial Services, will discuss the challenges of being an IT PM on a major construction project and look at how we were able to achieve some genuine and significant innovation despite the waterfall nature of the overall project. The value of prototyping will also be explored along with some lessons learnt about winning the important battles on IT requirements so that the building remains capable of supporting ongoing innovation and change.
Kerry, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Western Sydney University, will discuss the role of Senior Executives, that is ensuring that programmes and projects have the greatest chance of success by providing the tangible resources and somewhat intangible support needed to be successful. Specifically, the actions and approaches that were required to deliver the Parramatta City Campus project.
Bill Parasiris, Executive Director, Estate and Commercial, at Western Sydney University, will discuss the key matters to consider when delivering a project of this size and strategic priority. Emphasising the importance of a holistic approach and quality engagement with key stakeholders, Bill will detail the challenges and lessons learnt throughout this still-live process.
This Parramatta location is easy to get to by public transport and is a 6 minute walk from Parramatta Station (see the walking map below from Parramatta Station to the venue). Travel time from Wynyard Station to Parramatta Station by train is approximately 40 minutes. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Link to the location : https://goo.gl/maps/LtARuACd9Kn
About your presenter:
Stuart Penny is an experienced Program Manager with solid consulting and commercial experience globally. He has a long track record of successful delivery of large scale projects and programs across public and private sectors. His 25+ year career has seen a focus on projects of all types, sizes and delivery approaches and includes starting his career in civil engineering and construction project management. He has a passion for effective management and leadership of diverse and distributed teams and a reputation for delivering strategic business transformation and organisational change.
Kerry Holling joined Western Sydney University in July 2011 and is the Chief Information and Digital Officer. He has university-wide responsibility for Digital Strategy and Innovation, Solutions and Project Services, IT Operations, Digital Security and Risk, Service Delivery Improvement and frontline Academic and Campus-based support. Kerry is also a member of the University Executive and is the Secretary of CAUDIT (Council of Australian University Directors of IT). From 2007 until 2011 he was the CIO for what is now called the NSW Department of Family and Community Services. Previously, he was the Australian CIO for Digital Equipment Corporation (1996-1998), Compaq Computers (1998-2002) and Hewlett-Packard (2002-2006). This provided him with invaluable insights into the technology sector, the operation of large commercial businesses, and the impacts of technology enabled disruption on both consumer expectations and corporate strategy. After six years in the University sector, he was recently recognised as one of the “Top 10” most effective and innovative CIOs in Australia by CIO Magazine.
Bill Parasiris, a proud Western Sydney University graduate and lifelong Western Sydney resident, is currently the Executive Director, Estate and Commercial, at Western Sydney University (WSU). In this role, Bill heads the Office of Estate and Commercial (OEC), within the University’s Division of Finance and Resources. OEC is responsible for managing the University's $2.2 billion portfolio of properties and campuses and all commercial operations. With over 20 years’ experience in property, commercial operations and asset management, his experience covers sales, leasing, marketing, property development, business plan development & implementation and project management. Bill’s career has spanned multiple sectors, including retail, commercial, industrial, residential and education. He is currently overseeing the University’s Western Growth program of work, and key WSU projects overseen by Bill include the negotiation of the largest student accommodation transaction agreement in the Southern Hemisphere to date in 2013; the delivery of WSU’s state-of-the-art Peter Shergold Building, home to the University’s School of Business, in December 2016; and the Liverpool City Campus in the burgeoning CBD of Liverpool in March 2018.
Time: 6:00PM (Networking); 6:30PM to 8:30PM (Event followed by networking)
Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2018
Location: Peter Shergold Building, Level 9, 169 Macquarie Street, Parramatta
Professional Development Units (PDU): 1 PDU can be claimed for attending this event
Cost: Free for PMI Sydney Chapter Members (log in first), $20 for Guests
Join us for the next PMI Sydney Chapter event where you will have a rare and unique opportunity to network with and learn from C-level executives and their insights relating to the three areas of focus for the PMI Talent Triangle, in particular Leadership and Strategic and Business Management.
The focus topic for the panel review will be ‘Managing Complex Transformations” and our expert panel will include Janine Modaro, Director-Transformation al Program Management of KPMG and Ken Sheargold, Chief Executive Officer of PM Partners and will be facilitated by Barbora Muzikant, Director Project Management Consultancy of ACCELR8.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Time: 6:00PM (Networking); 6:30PM to 8:30PM (Event followed by networking)
Date: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Location: 60, Margaret Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Professional Development Units (PDU): 1 PDU can be claimed for attending this event
Cost: Free for PMI Sydney Chapter Members (log in first), $20 for Guests
