Interviews and Clippings

PMPodcast: Episode 437: Brightline Is Bridging the Gap Between Strategy Design and Delivery

There's no shortage of great ideas, whether you are going through a transformation or adapting to digital innovation, but not every great idea becomes a reality. Pinpointing 'why' is at the core of the Brightline initiative's mission.

Brightline (www.brightline.org) is a new strategic arm of Project Management Institute (PMI)®. And as stated on the website: "The Brightline™ Initiative delivers insights and solutions that empower leaders to successfully transform their organization’s vision into reality through strategic initiative management."

Today, we welcome Ricardo Vargas (LinkedIn Profile) who is Brightline's Executive Director.

This interview was recorded one day before the Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Conference 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. We talk about the history of the initiative, the 10 principles developed to help your organization bridge the costly and wasteful gap between strategy design and delivery, and we look at how you can apply this on your projects. And we also identify issues that prevent strategies to become a reality.

Transforming Against Crisis

In this keynote session, we learn how leaders in business and government are predicting in a world of constant change and disruption. We analyze the idea of opportunity in chaos and ask how a 'crisis' mode of operations can help organizations, from startups to global giants, better prioritize, mobilize resources to realize their innovative ideas.

Discovering talent: The silver lining of crisis

93 percent of high performing organizations believe crisis uncovers talented leaders, said Ricardo Viana Vargas, Executive Director, Brightline Initiative at People Matters TechHR 2019. Let’s take a look at what organizations need to focus on to make the most of a crisis.

Experts foresee high-value blockchain construction industry use cases

Business and management experts Don Tapscott and Ricardo Viana Vargas foresee that blockchain construction use cases could deliver significant value to the construction industry. They have recently commented on the importance of blockchain in this industry in a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article.

The critical factor to help bridge the strategy-implementation gap is people

In this exclusive interaction with People Matters, Ricardo Viana Vargas, Executive Director, Brightline, who will be speaking at TechHR 2019, shares some of the ways in which organizations can minimize the strategy-implementation gap.

Making failure work

For all organisations and managers failure is a recurring reality. But despite failure being all pervasive, few individuals or organisations respond positively. Making failure work productively requires managers to recognise that plans need to be adaptable; failure must be built into the culture and everyone attuned to fail fast, adapt and learn.

How Blockchain will change construction

Blockchain technology is among the most disruptive forces of the past decade. Its power to record, enable, and secure huge numbers and varieties of transactions raises an intriguing question: Can the same distributed ledger technology that powers bitcoin also enable better execution of strategic projects in a conservative sector like construction, involving large teams of contractors and subcontractors and an abundance of building codes, safety regulations, and standards?

Four tenets to build a workforce that can turn ideas into reality

Many people around the world have been shocked by the gridlock and uncertainty that has crippled the Brexit negotiations between Great Britain and the European Union. Ricardo Vargas is not among them. As the Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative, a think tank operated under the auspices of the Project Management Institute, Vargas has spent most of his professional life studying the gap between ideas and execution. When he looks at the Brexit situation, Vargas sees a classic example of failing to find the ways and means to deliver on an idea.

Learn from experts at People Matters TechHR certification workshops

People Matters TechHR has always experimented with the new-be it formats, speakers, or experiences. Continuing our journey of six years, with two large events, one in India and one in Singapore, at TechHR, we continue to bring in the most progressive speakers, the most experimentative companies, the most relevant products to provide you with an immersive experience like no other conference in the world. Why should this year be any different?

Zaatari documentary

The scenery of Zaatari - Memories of the Labyrinth is one of the largest refugee camps in the Syrian War, located in the Mafraq desert, on the Syrian border with Jordan since 2012. In just four years, Zaatari became the third country and the fifth largest center in financial transactions. The documentary focuses on the human side and seeks to understand how more than 80,000 refugees attempt to rebuild their lives, overcoming the traumas of war. The film chronicles the day-to-day lives of characters struggling to keep their memories alive. The idea is to show how these lives are being redone.