What is the Owners Role in Project Success

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• What is the Owners Role in Project Success?
• Debra Nauta-Rodriguez
• Smithsonian Institution

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Leadership for Today
RT 204
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Leadership Bridging the Gap
RT 204

• Andrew Bates
• Dan Christian
• Curtis Fisher
• John Friedrich
• Bud Griffis
• Dale Griffith
• Scott Hill
• Tony Palma

• Brian Kong
• Fred Lyu
• David McKinney
• Peter Murphy
• Debra Nauta-Rodriguez
• Joel Sauer
• Jim Vicknair
• Paul Walls

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Project Success
Team Work
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Project Failures
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Leadership of TomorrowBridging the Gap

• RT 204 created to answer the question
• What is the RIGHT level of owner involvement
  that leads to project SUCCESS?

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Statement of Project Success

• The RIGHT level of owner involvement is the key
  to project SUCCESS

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Who is the Owner?

• The ultimate decision making authority
• In many projects, the owner
• may change throughout the
• life of the project
• Upon completion
• owns operates facility

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Project Success

• Project Success
• Achieving the stated goals objectives
• Respondents provided the success criteria used
  on their project

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Project Success
SAFETY
DURATION
COST
QUALITY
BUSINESS
CII Owners Role in Construction Safety Report
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Research Effort

• Developed a survey for CII members
• Literature review, CII Benchmarking,
• PDRI questionnaire
• Collected 73 projects (45 companies)
• Conducted quantitative qualitative analysis

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What Can the Owner Do to Affect the Outcomes?
Owners Involvement
Leadership
Pre- Project Planning
Project Management
Drivers of System Performance Inputs
Outcomes of System Performance
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Cost Performance Results
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73 Total Projects m 3.66
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Number of Projects
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Owner Actions Drive Success

• Improved input Improved outcome
• Increase the value of the owner input

Pre-Project Planning Owner Involvement Leadership
Project Management
IMPROVED OUTCOME
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Leadership Principles
Team Leadership
Business Leadership
Owner Leadership
Leadership Performance
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Leadership Principles

• Business Leadership
• Communicate the business plan
• Foster an innovative environment
• Evaluate available resources
• Train employees in core competencies
• Emphasize scope definition management

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• Drivers of System Performance
• Pre-Project Planning
• Owners Involvement
• Leadership Performance
• Project Management

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• System Performance Results
• Safety
• Duration
• Cost
• Business
• Quality

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Owners Role Implementation Tool
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Come to Our Implementation Session

• What makes a project successful
• How to measure what you are doing during the
  project to ensure you are on track
• Make your project successful

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