Directly from Albert Einstein Hospital: Snapping the Limits of Project Management Application

In this podcast Ricardo talks directly from Albert Einstein Hospital, his first project management work in health care. He reflects the dimension that project management is taking place in non-typical areas for projects.

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Hello everybody. And welcome to the five minutes BM podcast today. I like to discuss with you or something that happened with me last week for the first time for me in my professional life, I was in the Hospital not as a patient, but as a consultant, as a consultant to explain, and to understand how project management can make the difference out in this field. It was my first time I went to the Hospital Albert Einstein in some Paulo, Brazil.

And if it's one of the most prominent hospital's here in Brazil with about 5,600 employees, 500 bads, 6,000 doctors, 2.1 million exempts, almost 200 transplants, and about nine 35% of those using the Brazilian public health care. So it's really, really a very powerful institution. And it's great also to see their leadership doing project management.

So I was really and very using to see people applying project management in construction, in energy to prepare a new power plant, a hydroelectrical power plan for a software development it's very easy, or the military area So defense acquisition at this related to army and armed forces. But it was my first time since I started working with project management, that there was looking project management in the health care and not do develop and produce new medicine, but to run a business, to run a Hospital.

And in this example of Albert Einstein we are talking about 300 million. Hi guys, it's about 200, a little bit less of 200 million us dollars per ear in a portfolio that compromise project's like a construction, like a new buildings, like a new flexible bats that can handle intensive care patients and also daily patients. So it's so interesting to see this, to see how broad we can apply our profession and how broad we can help, not only companies, but our society to do something different and also to do something better.

It's show interesting and ID the presentation for about 200 people. And among this 200 people, I show many, many doctors, many, many people working and the healthcare and not only engineers and people doing in the more traditional project management. So was four me like a gift to open my eyes, to see in the more broad perspective of opportunities to apply project management. As I said, in many other podcasts, we need to understand that project management is a driver to success.

He's a driver in this changing word. We need to prepare ourselves better and better for change and to handle with novation with also planning, be prepared to do something different, to find a new road, something different to do this. And this was for me, really a pleasure. And I like to congratulate our time then. And not only Albert Einstein, but all the listeners that are listening this podcast and see how we can see Valley and how we can apply project management in completely different perspective.

Like I saw in Albert Einstein last week, imagine this lawyers can use that. Politicians can use that when we are doing the campaign in a political campaign like last year with president Obama election. And this year here in Brazil with a, the presidential election, we see many, many opportunities. She thinks differently and open our minds. I hope you enjoy it. This podcast enjoy your week, think differently, and let's make the difference by, by see you next week.

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