Omar Zein, partner at Projectize and Vice President of the European School of Project Management has been invited by the PMI® Sweden Chapter to be the closing keynote speaker at the 2013 congress: Passion for Projects.

The keynote will be titled "Project Management Across Cultures" and stresses the importance of why the international project manager should understand the effects of varying cultures on project management practices. It will also relate some practical experiences of the topic and speculate on how the international project manager and his team may “tune” their approach to turn negative cultural effects into an advantage for the project.

For further details about the seminar, please visit the congress website

For a third year in a row, Omar Zein, partner at Projectize, was invited by the Project Management Institute to present his white paper at the PMI^® EMEA Global Congress.

The congress is an annual event organised by the PMI^® to address the latest developments in the project and programme management fields. This year, the event was held in Marseille, France between the 7th and 9th of May.

Omar's white paper which is title "Cultural Complexities in Multinational Projects", discusses the national cultures' impact on international project management and takes from his and others’ international management experiences to address the cultural complexities observed in international projects while suggestsing how management approaches could be adapted to minimize conflicts and make the best use of the projects' cultural mix.

The white paper is freely available to download from the European School of Project Management website.

Meritor is a global leader in providing innovative drivetrain mobility and braking solutions for original equipment (OE) manufacturers of trucks, trailers and specialty vehicles, as well as the related aftermarkets in the transportation and industrial sectors.

In 2011, Meritor closed its trailer axle/suspension business in the Wales, UK, and established a license agreement with Assali Stefen to enable it to manufacture certain products for the European market formerly produced by Meritor.  Assali Stefen is based in Verona, Italy.

Projectize was tasked with the Programme Management of creating the technical capability at Assali Stefen to manufacture the products licensed to it by Meritor. The following activities were performed:

• Planning, resourcing, tracking and coordination of all activities necessary to successfully implement the license agreement
• Communication interface between Meritor and Assali Stefen
• Identification and implementation of business process improvements needed at Assali Stefen to enable manufacturing of the products licensed from Meritor
• Assistance with human resource recruiting to address skill gaps at Assali Stefen

The programme was successfuly completed in December 2011.

The HEPPY project, Healthcare: Parents Pathways and functional profile, is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo Da Vinci – Development of Innovation sub programme.

The project, which started in November 2011, is implemented through a consortium of 9 organizations in 6 European countries and has a total duration of 2 years.

Projectize joined the consortium as the technology partner to provide an interactive collaboration and e-learning infrastructure to all participants which total over 180 individuals Europe-wide.

The objectives of the HEPPY project are:

• To identify best practices in the field of home care assistance
• To collect experiences of home health assistance providers and patients
• To develop a training programme for professional health providers

For further information about the HEPPY project, please visit: http://heppy.projectize.eu