Upcoming IPMA Megaprojects Book Club: “Megaprojects and risk: An anatomy of ambition” with Bent Flyvbjerg

The IPMA Megaprojects Book Club (read more about the launch of the project HERE) will discuss the key concepts, practices, and ideas proposed by globally recognised authors.
Leading books will bring robust arguments and particular views of the world of megaprojects, however, authors are equally very interested and curious about other perspectives that might challenge and expand our knowledge.
The core objective is to expose you to cutting-edge thinking and create a conversation to discover your thoughts, the constructive critiques that will build upon the book, and move forward our thinking about megaprojects.

We invite leading authorities that have produced impactful books about megaprojects. Before the session, specific parts of the book, are shared as recommended readings, which will bring a unique perspective to our live session. Registered participants will receive the material and be invited to submit questions in advance by email, which I will have the pleasure of reviewing together with the authors.

In order to get access and receive the chapter (to be read before the event) please sign up HERE

You are now officially invited to join the club! Get in touch and join us on this journey of challenging ‘so what?’ questions!

Bent Flyvbjerg is the first BT Professor and inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He works for better management of megaprojects and cities. He is the most cited scholar in the world on megaprojects. He is also #1 on each of Google Scholar’s global-citation ranking lists in Project Management, Planning, Infrastructure, and Cities. He is included in Stanford University’s prestigious Top 2% of most cited scholars in the world.

Flyvbjerg is the author or editor of 10 books and 200+ papers, translated into 20 languages. He has pioneered research in behavioral science, including power bias, strategic misrepresentation, optimism bias, the planning fallacy, and reference class forecasting. Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman calls Flyvbjerg’s work on reference class forecasting and how to deal with the planning fallacy, “the single most important piece of advice regarding how to increase accuracy in forecasting” (Thinking, Fast and Slow, p. 251). Flyvbjerg also writes about the philosophy and methodology of social science, and especially phronesis.

Flyvbjerg is the founder and co-founder of a dozen highly successful research groups, degree programs, and startups. His passion is to build new ventures from scratch, making them truly flourish academically, professionally, and commercially.

He has received numerous honors and awards, including a knighthood and two Fulbright Scholarships.
Flyvbjerg’s research has been covered by Nature, Science, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, China Daily, The BBC, CNN, National Geographic, etc. He is a frequent commentator in the news.
He has 30 years of experience as an advisor to government and business, including the US, UK, and Chinese governments and Fortune 500 companies. He is an external advisor to McKinsey & Co. He has worked on some of the largest projects in the world, on front-end planning, delivery, the rescue of failing projects, postmortems, audits, and more. He advises ministers, C-suites, and boards on how to deliver their projects successfully. Flyvbjerg is chairman of Oxford Global Projects.

Read more about the event: https://sig.ipma.world/events/