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| Date: | Friday, August 8, 2008 |
| Topic: |
"The Change Competency: A Critical Success Factor for
Today’s E&C Companies" Engineering and Construction Companies are in the Change Business … in the sense that they provide professional services to support big changes that owner companies are making. Whether it is increasing capacity or commercializing a new product line, all roads lead to the E&C community as the necessary ingredient for enabling client business objectives. But helping owner companies make changes in capacity or product mix are not the only kinds of changes that need to be handled professionally. While making change happen in the owner’s physical plant is obvious, a not-so-obvious kind of change must be made by the owner client as they integrate a new physical plant into their day-to-day business. The complexity and difficulty of changing their organization to do business with a different plant rivals the intricacies of plant design and construction. Since E&C companies have many of the competencies of managing complex change (i.e., program and project management,” is this their chance to help their clients take their business initiatives “all the way to the bank?” A third critical venue for professional change competency lies inside each E&C company. As both the E&C and owner industries reposition and reconfigure for better business results, E&C companies find themselves in need of many of the change services they provide to their clients. But as in the case of the cobbler’s children with no shoes, many E&C companies struggle with applying their own professional competences to themselves. Is this the opportunity for “physician heal thyself” thinking and action? This presentation will explore all three kinds of changes and identify obstacles, and, in some cases, solutions for today’s complex change challenges … and opportunities. |
| Speaker: |
 Dutch
Holland, PhD. has devoted
almost four decades to the subject of “leading change for improved
business results.” He is the CEO of Holland & Davis, a Houston based
management services firm that has provided services to more than 200
companies over its 38 year history. Dutch is a Lecturer in the
Practice of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Management at
Rice University. |
| Location: | Farnsworth
Pavilion - Rice Ley Student Center Detailed campus maps are available on the web at http://www.rice.edu/maps/ . On most campus maps, the Farnsworth Pavilion, Ley Student Center is designated as number 37. The Central Campus Garage is the closest parking facility. On the map, it is located to the left of the Ley Student Center. |
| Time: | 11:30 am sign-in with the speaker beginning at noon |
| Fee: | $25 per person - a boxed lunch will be served |
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