Mr. Dave Guerra

Super Projects: From Management to Optimization

Dave Guerra, CEO of performance transformation consultancy Corpus Optima and author of the groundbreaking Superperformance, as well as last year's highly acclaimed book The Superperforming CEO, provides an exclusive APICS Houston presentation based on his upcoming new book, Super Projects: From Management to Optimization (Old Live Oak Books, September 2010) The evidence of Super Projects adds further credence to the notion that the ground that contemporary management science and operations theory is standing on is giving way, and will be supplanted by a dramatically more robust living, complex adaptive system view that incorporates polar-complementarity (of management and leadership, process and culture, control and liberation) and the reduction of its variation, as a first order principle of optimization.

Through a study of 10 Super Projects, varying widely in dimension and scope but sharing comparatively dramatic performance outcomes, Dave shows clear evidence of servant leadership, agility principles, and cultural emergence at work. These led to dramatically superior performance outcomes across multiple indicators, including economic performance, safety performance, schedule performance, stakeholder fulfillment performance, and many others. Along with an advocacy for revision of project theory to incorporate these components he offers recommendations for implementation--including recommendations for the establishment and organization of the Project Optimization Office (POO) to supplant the traditional Project Management Office (PMO), whose new purpose should include assuring the equivalence of project leadership and project management in all project ventures. 

About Dave Guerra:

Dave is the founder and CEO of Corpus Optima, a performance transformation consultancy. He is  the originator and leading exponent on the theory and practice of Superperformance. Dave regularly addresses and consults with executives from some of the world’s leading companies, and conducts seminars and transformation campaigns based on this knowledge for a wide range of organizations. Over several decades, Dave has consulted extensively in the areas of servant leadership, continuous improvement, lean, and the use of complexity principles to transform corporate culture. Dave’s past and current customers include Administaff, Baker Hughes, Brinks, ConocoPhillips, Emerson Electric, Exxon Mobil, HCA, HP, ITT, Motorola, Nike, Oracle, Texas Children’s Hospital, Tenet Health,  University of Houston, and others. He speaks passionately and frequently about the merger of process and culture and its influence on long-term industry outperformance. As the primary researcher and promulgator of Superperformance, he has discovered that its principles can be successfully applied to transform performance in many areas.

Time and Location:

The HESS Club
5430 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77056

Map to the HESS Club

Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Registration Begins at 5:30 PM
Begins at 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Cost:

$25.00 for APICS Members ($30.00 after August 12th)
$5.00 for Students

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