How to Manage Change

The competitive global marketplace throws up as many challenges as opportunities. Businesses and professionals have to keep pace with ongoing changes to remain relevant.

The role of project management has grown in these challenging times.

PMI Mumbai Chapter dwelled on this aspect on the International Project Management Day on 15 November with a day-long conference. The conference focused on three topics: strategic role of project management, managing change, and integrating and managing diverse teams.

Through this event, the Mumbai Chapter drew the attention of the project management fraternity towards the ongoing challenges and issues while doing business in the competitive global marketplace. These are issues impact project management practitioners on an everyday basis.

The speakers at the conference were Raj Kalady, managing director, PMI India, who in his present role is responsible for the advancement of project management and PMI in India; Rajnish Virmani, president & COO, Reliance BPO; Ramam Atmakuri, vice president and head, Invensys Development Centre India Pvt. Ltd, founder member and past president, PMI Pearl City Chapter, Hyderabad and currently the PMI component mentor for western Asia; Rajshekhar S Ingle, head, retail-projects, Future Group; Manish H. Modi, co-founder, managing director & CEO, Datamatics Technologies Ltd; Girish Kelkar, director, CoreObjects and president, PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter; Rajiv Bhargava, associate director (software quality assurance) and chief information security officer, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited; and Kanti Gopal, vice president, Consulting Services, Right Management (formerly Grow Talent Company).