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INVITATION

Dear friends and colleagues,

Maintaining permanent competitiveness requires continuous new ideas about how to improve the organisation of one's business. The answer lies not only in improving existing technologies or searching for new technologies, but also in innovative organisation, which is an important factor in increasing business success. Projects and project organisation are an integral part of this problem. The contemporary dynamic environment requires flexible organisation, and the various types and forms of project organisation are an integral part of this. How do we determine the most appropriate solution for our own problem? What are the recommendations of those who have succeeded? What does theory tell us? What are the trends? What is the influence of globalisation and the mixing of different organisational cultures? These and others are the questions we want the representatives of the profession and users to discuss at our second joint IPMA & ICEC Expert Seminar, to which we have given the working title:

THE POWER OF PROJECT ORGANISATION - QUALITY BREAKTHROUGH

Classical forms of business organisation no longer satisfy the needs, brought about by the dynamic business environment of the 21st century, which is characterized by globalisation, accelerated technological development, instability of business environment etc. The classical organisation is rigid and responds badly to emerging needs. To solve this problem, different forms of network organisation have come out in theory and practice. Projects and project management are an important element of these new organisational concepts and approaches.

The expert seminar aims to employ different points of view in considering the above problems and thus help contemporary companies and other organisations. We intend to highlight the role of project organisation, as a part of contemporary business organisation, which helps us to efficiently manage one-time business processes - projects. For this reason we have invited a number of international experts in this field, who will try to expose these problems by means of discussions, presentations, and confrontations of different perspectives and thus help to indicate some paths towards useful solutions. We also invited experts from different companies to present practical solutions which resulted from confronting similar problems in their organisations.

IPMA & ICEC Expert Seminar is intended for experts who deal with organisation and organisation of contemporary business in theory or practice. It is also meant for people who confront these problems through daily managing of their companies or organisations - managers or professionals.

You are cordially invited to attend this prestigious international meeting of project management experts and to make the most of this opportunity to gather information that could benefit your company or organisation.

Dr Brane Semolič
President of Slovenian
Organising Committee