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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 (January 2015)

Maximise the synergies in our global With this New Year Address, we wanted to
network to help all Member Associations prepare you for the year, which is an
develop according to their needs. This important milestone for IPMA and all its
requires Member Associations (MAs) to tell MAs. We will discuss more about the issues
about the good practice and share of our strategy, the execution and the
openly what others could learn from it. way forward during the next Council of
However, it requires an MA that is Delegates in Dublin. The newly elected
interested in adopting such a good ExBo will have its first meeting this month in
practice, to speak up, to approach the Berlin, where we will set the scene for this
other and develop the idea in a year´s activities.
professional way. IPMA could trigger this
exchange between MAs (e.g. through the Let´s jointly move fast forward in 2015.
MAs Workshop and events such as IPMA´s
Research Conferences) but does not Please feel free to share this address in
have the means to perform an entire your MA and to all the interested
development program. IPMA offers stakeholders, in order to promote the
facilitation and will do this more in future! recognition of project management and
engage stakeholders around the world in
IPMA wants to grow, quantitatively and advancing the discipline.
qualitatively. We aspire to have 90
Member Associations in 2020. We detect Reinhard Wagner,
a great interest in Latin America, Asia and President of IPMA
Africa to join our network. ExBo and the
Executive Director could help to initiate Participants of the IPMA Council of Delegates, 2014
talks, direct activities towards such in Rotterdam (Photo courtesy to Les Squires)
membership. In the end, it is our network -
everybody of you - that need to welcome
all the new members and let them feel
welcome. New members need exchange,
ideas, expertise, patience during setbacks
and so on. It is a marathon not a sprint.
We want to have a sustainable network in
the end. The demands of the new
members are different to the mature ones.
Travelling through 24 countries last year, I
experienced huge differences in what the
people ask about IPMA and what they
need from us. We need to be highly
professional AND flexible. Adapting our
offer to the needs of the members is one
of the key challenges in future. Finally, we
all need to offer know-how, products and
services to the benefit of individuals,
projects and organisations across public,
private and community sectors (this is
another mission statement), and this
means tailoring it to the specific needs of
our target audiences.

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