Events

Is your next strategic initiative doomed to fail? According to a Brightline Initiative's survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU, 2017) with 500 senior executive leaders across the globe, only one in ten organizations successfully reach all of their strategic goals. On average, organizations fail to delivery 20 percent of their strategic projects. Ricardo Vargas, Executive Director of The Brightline Initiative, will share some insights and key findings of the research and discuss what Leaders are doing to successfully deliver their strategic objectives. Ricardo will draw connections between the research findings and the Brightline’s 10 Guiding Principles to help organizations close the expensive strategy-implementation gap.

Ricardo Vargas will kick off the research works of the University of Tokyo Global Teamwork Lab in their academic seminar with the keynote "Closing the Gap: Designing and Delivering a Strategy that Works".

Ricardo will be representing Brightline Initiative at the Breakfast promoted by The Economist during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The breakfast will discuss the Business Case for Openness and will discuss the role of business in collaboration and a responsible agenda that combines profit and responsibility with the society.

Ricardo will deliver a keynote about the main changes in the new PMBOK Guide®, the global reference guide in Project Management. The presentation will be based in the content developed by him and available for download at https://ricardo-vargas.com/pmbok6-processes-flow

Ricardo will represent Brightline at the CSO Summit New York speaking about the results of Brighline/Economist research and the Guiding Principles to connect Strategy Design with Strategy Delivery.

Ricardo Vargas will be a panelist at the Mega Projects track sharing his experience in leading complex megaprojects.

Ricardo will be representing Brightline Initiative work in the forum including research, guiding principles aiming to bring ideas to life by the proper connection between Strategy Design and Delivery.

Ricardo Vargas will represent Brightline Initiative during one of the most prestigious awards for the management thinkers. Brightline and Thinkers 50 will present together the Strategy Awards. Previous recipients of were (most recent first): Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, Rita McGrath, W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne.

Ricardo will attend and speak at the Websummit. The event is considered the largest tech conference in the world.

Ricardo will join over 500 PMO leaders for advanced workshops on Organizational Project Management strategies.