The world of today and tomorrow

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Presentation of Forum Themes , Wednesday 5
September 2001, 09.40 - 10.00 by Eigil Steen
Pedersen, FIDIC President-Elect
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FIDIC MONTREUX 2001 CONFERENCE Wednesday 5
September 2001
INFORMATION
Contact FIDIC Secretariat for information Text
available at www.fidic.org/conference/2001/talks
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The three themes are

• - Quality Management
• - Business Integrity Management
• - Capacity Building

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Quality Management

• - Guide to Quality Management in the Consulting
  Industry
• - Training Kit Quality Management in the
  Consulting Engineering Industry
• - Guide to the Interpretation and Application of
  the ISO 90012000 Standard for the Consulting
  Engineering Industry

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Business Integrity Management

• - Why should firms adopt a BIMS?
• - The Business Integrity Management concept
• - The principles of Business Integrity Management
  
• - How to develop an BIMS
• - How to monitor the process
• - Alternative models for review of the system

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Capacity Building

• - CAPACITY BUILDING - building the capacity of
  the consulting industry
• with the following supporting papers
• - Recommended government initiatives
• - Recommended actions by international agencies
• - The World Bank
• - Asian Development Bank
• - African Development Bank
• - Capacity benchmarking of firms and at the
  national level

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Joint Workshop Business Integrity Management
Capacity Building Wednesday 5 September 2001
10.30 12.00 Co-Chairs Felipe Ochoa, México
Eigil Steen Pedersen, FIDIC President-Elect
MONTREUX 2001
FIDIC MONTREUX 2001 CONFERENCE Wednesday 5
September 2001
INFORMATION
Contact FIDIC Secretariat for information Text
available at www.fidic.org/conference/2001/talks
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Business Integrity Management

• - Introduction Progress Report by Dr. Felipe
  Ochoa, México
• - Pilot Project in Turkey by Eng. Fatma
  Cölasan, Turkey
• - BIM Evaluation in México by Dr.Jorge
  Diaz-Padilla, México
• - A Third-Party Review by Professor Mark
  Pieth, Switzerland

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Capacity Building

• - Introduction Progress Report by Eng. Eigil
  Steen Pedersen, Denmark
• - Recommended Government Initiatives by Eng.
  John Ritchie, Canada
• - Recommended Actions by International
  Agencies by Eng. Rafik
  Meghji, Tanzania
• - Capacity Benchmarking by Dr. Peter Boswell,
  FIDIC Secretariat

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Capacity building
Recommended Government Initiatives

• - Policy Initiatives
• - Financial Initiatives
• - Legislative Actions

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Capacity building
Recommended Government Initiatives
Policy Initiatives

• Declare strong government support for the
  consulting engineering as a high technology
  industry through its established industry
  association.
• Establish positive, high level liaison contacts
  with the industry through its industry
  association.
• Declare a public policy for enhanced national
  consulting engineering firm participation in
  domestic and IFI funded projects. Rely on
  transparent Quality Based Selection.

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Capacity building
Recommended Government Initiatives
Policy Initiatives

• Cooperate with the national consulting
  engineering industry association to develop an
  understanding of expected government
  requirements.
• Promote excellence in education of engineers,
  technicians, and allied professionals.
• Minimize the use of in-house government
  engineering units.
• Recognize only those consulting engineering firms
  that operate competitively in the private sector
  marketplace.

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Capacity building
Recommended Government Initiatives
Financial Initiatives

• Support for education
• Support for technology transfer contracts for
  engineering services in LDC's
• Access to financial resources
• development funds - debt or equity
• balanced financial terms in contracts

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Capacity building
Recommended Government Initiatives
Legislative Actions

• Recognize individual engineering professionals
  through legislation
• Recognize through legislation consulting
  engineering as a special self-governing area of
  practice with well defined admission criteria
• Create a legislative environment in which
  engineering and construction risk can be
  effectively managed, with assistance from the
  insurance industry
• Establish tax laws and related policies that
  will stimulate growth of knowledge based
  industries

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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking

• Problem lack of visibility
• Solution information on
• - capabilities, references
• - staff skills, experience, number
• - facilities
• - ownership, financial background, etc.

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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking

• At the individual firm level
• a tool to enhance skills in firms
• At national level
• a tool to assess the consulting capacity of
  specific
• countries

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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking

• At the firm level
• - National operating environment
• - Financial performance
• - balance sheet
• - operating results
• - Staff performance
• - Services

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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking

• At the national industry level
• - Same generic indicators as for individual firms
• - Reporting at four levels
• - firm
• - association
• - national industry sector
• - country
• with a total of 16 indicators

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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking
Reporting level National National industry
sector Association Firm
Data level National operating environment
Staff performance
Financial preformance
Services
Firm turnover per unit GDP xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx
xx
Average revenue per staff xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx
xx
Corruption index xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx
GDP per capita xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx
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Capacity building
Capacity Benchmarking

• National Capacity Index
• pilot project since 1999
• uses FIDIC Annual Survey developed with the FIDIC
  Member Assocuation for France
• - accessible at
• www.FIDIC.org/annualsurvey