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FIDIC Young Professionals Management Training Programme
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FIDIC organizes an annual international Young Professionals Management Training Programme in collaboration with the training supplier SF-Consult, Denmark. On the left, the 2005 trainees after receiving certificates from the FIDIC President at the FIDIC 2005 General Assembly Meeting, Beijing. 
 
What participants say about the programme ...
 
The FIDIC 2008 Young Professionals Management Training Programme starts in early-February 2008 and ends at the  FIDIC 2008 Quebec Conference (7-10 September 2008).
 
YPMTP 2009 programme: details and registration form in first circular: PDF
 
Registration ends on 30 December 2007: Offline PDF Online   
 
FIDIC Past Presidents Young Leader Scholarship for participation in the FIDIC 2008 Young Professionals Management Training Programme: guidelines and application form Word
 
The programme's objective is to engage young potential managers in the discussion of management issues, to develop new approaches, leadership skills and intercultural understanding and to become acquainted with the FIDIC activities through participation in the FIDIC Annual Conference.
 
Programme contents
 
The programme has an initial Internet-based component over a seven-month period prior to the FIDIC 2008 Quebec Conference. In connection with the conference, there will be two half-days sessions prior to the conference, and final presentations with participation by all other conference participants at conference workshops organized by the Young Professionals Management Training Programme, in particular a Future Leaders Workshop. These workshops will offer a general discussion and sharing of ideas and findings. The final outcome is a report for the programme. This report is normally presented at the Future Leaders Workshop.
 
The programme is tailor-made to the consulting industry, and an experienced senior consulting engineer acts as facilitator and is attached to the programme to secure timely progress and a high quality for inputs and outputs. FIDIC has established a Mentor Board for supervising and reviewing the programme.

Management topics will comprise some of the following types of issues:
  • Growth and profit
  • Development: new technologies, cultural changes, globalisation
  • Ownership structures: partnership, employee owned, quoted shareholding and others
  • Marketing of consulting services
  • Multicultural management: Business Integrity and Professional Services Agreements

As a starting point a number of thematic issues will be presented. Each issue will be debated by the participants over a given period, generally six weeks. Participants will be encouraged to present their own cases as an input to the process. For each theme a conclusion should be reached, with a "light" monitoring by the facilitator.

Key words for the process are: taking leadership, strategy, global perspective, change management, international networking.

The participants will meet shortly before and during the FIDIC Conference to discuss the conclusions reached. Furthermore, the facilitator is able to providing feed-back on the personal development of each participant. 
 
Registration for the 2009 programme  
 
The number of participants in the FIDIC Young Professionals Management Training Programme is limited to 45, in three teams of 15. Participants should preferably be under 35 years of age and have some prior management experience. 

The fee is EUR 2,800.-, which includes all tuition materials and the fee for attending the FIDIC 2009 Annual Conference. If there are insufficient  participants, FIDIC reserves the right to cancel the programme (registration fees will be refunded in full).

The deadline for registrations for participation in the programme is by 30 December  2008 (registration opens in October 2008). The starting date is early-February 2009 and the programme ends with the the FIDIC 2008 London Conference (September 2008).
 
Participants that register will be required to indicate a formal commitment to participating in all the programme's activities. This commitment would normally comprise a short statement (sent by email to FIDIC) of the reasons why a young professional has registered for the programme.
 
Payment for registration can be by credit card and bank transfer; registration is Offline PDF or Online.
 
Organization
 
The programme is coordinated by Steen Frederiksen, FIDIC Coordinator, assisted by a Mentor Board:

  • Richard Kell, Australia
  • Ben Novak, Canada
  • Maxime Mazloum, France
  • Bayo Adeola, Nigeria
Themes
 
Summaries of the case study themes themes (e.g., 2004 programme themes) are distributed to participants at the start of the programme. For 2008, deadlines for completing the themes are approximately 26 March 2009, 30 April 2009, 15 June 2009 and 30 August 2009. Themes for the cases studies are likely to be:
  • Organization and human resources development
  • Ownership structures
  • Marketing of consulting services
  • Multicultural management

Final exercise
 
The final exercise has yet to be decided. As an example, for the 2004 programme, the final exercise was: "Present your vision of the consulting company of the future including all aspects of organization, ownership and development, with the objective of creating a platform for business that easily adapts to new technologies, is a good place to work and develop individual skills, appeals to all client categories and is able to meet the challenges of globalization". 
 

Participants

Team 1
Shayan Moin, Iran, shayanmoin@yahoo.com
Nader Shokoufi, Iran, nader_shokoufi@tavonconsulting.com
Tsuyoshi Nakajima, Japan, nakajima@oriconsult.co.jp
Amir Hessami, Iran, hessami_amir@yahoo.com
Lee Junhee, Korea, Junhee73@dohwa.co.kr
Kim Taigyung, Korea, imnike@naver.com
Lee Keeju, Korea, keejulee@empal.com
Jung Chui, Korea, jungc2@gmail.com
Park Moobyung, Korea, itone@naver.com
Kong Tze Foong, Singapore, kong.tze.foong@cpgcorp.com
Whitney Casey, Australia, whitney_casey@urscorp.com
Ramon Wilson, New Zealand, ra.wilson@andy.com
Javad Haddad, Iran, j.haddad@faradarya.co.ir
Cho Heesoo, Korea, y13301@yoshin.co.kr
Bruce Symmans, New Zealand, bsymmans@tonkin.co.nz
Jacinta Holmick, Australia, jacinta.holmick@cardno.com.au
Dean Eislers, Australia, d.eislers@ndy.com
  
Team 2
Marketta Wainio, Finland, marketta.wainio@ramboll.fi
Espen Bjorshol, Norway, espen.bjorshol@multiconsult.no
Saulius Vitkunas, Lithuania, saulius@s-strategija.lt
Phumudzo Baloyi, South Africa, phumudzob@goba.co.za
Anicet Vincent, Tanzania, anicetvincent@norplantz.org
Juris Laicans, Latvia, jla@aqua-brambis.lv
Gary Hooper, South Africa, garyh@goba.co.za
Michele Kruger, South Africa, michellec@goba.co.za
Emhemmed Ghula, Libya, eghula@gmail.com
George Kavalieratos, Greece, ado@otenet.gr; geokav2003@yahoo.gr
Gregory Brook, South Africa, gbrook@twp.co.za
Henry Aine Ishungisa, Uganda
  
Team 3
Erwin Malcorps, Belgium, erwin.malcorps@grontmij.be
S.K.Ilugbekhai, Nigeria, skilugbekhai@yahoo.com
Mauro Iacumin, Italy, iacumin@contiassociati.it
Ana Maria Ruiz Garcia, Spain, mruiz@typsa.es
Rick Meynen, Holland, meynen@onri.nl
Philip Jordan, Ireland, philip.jordan@esbi.ie
Oliver Goodman, UK, o.goodman@ndy.com
George Peters, Ireland, gpeters@tjoc.iol.ie
Ebbe Kristensen, Denmark, ek@byggeevaluering.dk
Ruurd van Wijhe, Holland, ruurd.vanwijhe@grontmij.nl
Miquel Pires, Denmark, mpi@niras.dk
Gustav Anang, Ghana, ganang_2000@yahoo.com

Themes
 
YPMTP 2007 themes for the cases studies were:

  • Organization and human resources development
  • Ownership structures
  • Marketing of consulting services
  • There is no alternative to development

Report
 
The report of the YPMTP 2007 programme made to the Future Leaders Workshop at the FIDIC 2007 Singapore Conference (9-13 September) is available on the conference website PDF 6 MB
 

 
Participants

Team 1
Anton Petrus Harmse, NETGRoup, South Africa, f.nell@netgroup.co.za
Attie Senekal, NET Group, South Africa, f.nell@netgroup.co.za
Byung-Kwan Jung, Korea Railroad, Korea, sniper@krtc.co.kr 
Han Lin Toh, CPG, Singapore, marwilis@cpgcorp.com.sg
Hyoung-soo Kim, Dong Myeong, Korea, canopy@hanmail.net
Jinho Lee, Yooshin , Korea, y12913@yooshin.co.kr
Katharina Graf, GFA, Germany, katharina.graf@gfa-group.de
Mads Møller, COWI, Denmar, mdm@cowi.dk
Makoto Tezuka, Chodai, Japan, tezuka-m@chodai.co.jp
Sara Namanda , Multi-Konsults, Uganda, ssnamanda@yahoo.com
Saul Martinez, URS, Australia, saul_martinez@urscorp.com
Stuart Smith, Becca, New Zealand, stuart.smith@beca.com
Tania Williams, MWH, New Zealand, tania.williams@mwhglobal.com
Timo Karjalainen, Ramboll, Finland, timo.karjalainen@ramboll.fi
Ville Niutanen, Ramboll, Finland, ville.niutanen@ramboll.fi  
Waldo van Hoving, NETGroup, South Africa, f.nell@netgroup.co.za
 
  Team 2
Altug Akman, Turkey, altugakman@esproje.com
Deniss Pilkevich, Three Brothers, Latvia, deniss.pilkevics@j3b.gov.lv
Enno Swets, Norconsult, Norway, esw@norconsult.no 
Grant Sheppard
Henlo Blignaut, TMP, South Africa, hblignaut@twp.co.za
Jesper Hass Rasmussen, Ramboll, Denmark, jphr@ramboll.dk
John Adams, Ramboll, Denmark, jca@ramboll.dk
Kathrin Haid, GKW, Germany, hd@gkw.com
Paulo G. Martins-Afonso, EDG, USA, paulo-martins-afonso@utulsa.edu
Samer Yaafoury, Al Shaya , Lebanon, yaafoury@terra.net.lb
Stephen Ireland, Sinclair Knight Merz, UK, sireland@skm.co.uk
Tamas Farago, Iparterv, Hungary, farago.tamas@iparterv.hu 
Tim Gudmand-Høyer, Ramboll, Denmark, txg@ramboll.dk
Valentina Bruno, Italy, bruno@ingct.it  
Yaron Schwartzman, H. Young, Kenya, yaromiro@gmail.com

Themes
 
YPMTP 2006 themes for the cases studies were:

  • Organization and human resources development
  • Ownership structures
  • Marketing of consulting services
  • There is no alternative to development

Report
 
The report of the YPMTP 2006 programme made to the Future Leaders Workshop at the FIDIC 2006 Budapest Conference (24-27 September) is available on the conference website PDF
 

 
Participants

Yoshihisa Asada, Oriental Consultants, Japan
Andrei Baicu, S.C. Consis Project , Romania
Frans Bouterse, Netherlands Airport Consultants, Netherlands
Thomas Cheang, CPG Consultants Ptd Ltd, Singapore
Michaela Diracca, Udine, Italy
Aitor Ezquerra, TYPSA, Spain
Salim Fardous, Savola Group, Saudi Arabia
Morten Johansen, Ramboll, Denmark
Carole Welton Kaagaard, COWI, Denmark
Birgit Farstad Larsen, COWI, Denmark
Roberta Lindbeck, URS, Australia
Soeren Berg Lorenzen, Ramboll, Denmark 
Mauno Napari, Ramboll Finland, Finland
Amy Oerlemans, Arcadis, Netherlands
Salas Juan Jose Risoul, Grupo Sacmag, Mexico
Gregory Saretzky, Stantec Consulting Ltd. Canada
Harianti Sri, Black & Veatch, Singapore
Richard Stump, Stanley Consultants, USA
Annette Sweeney, Good Earth Matters Consulting, New Zealand 
Joonas Vaabel, ETP Group, Estonia
Yanhua Wang, Black & Veatch, Singapore
Chun Kew Yuan, CPG Consultants Pty Ltd, Singapore

Report
 
The consolidated report of the FIDIC 2005 Young Professionals Management Training Programme  is available in PDF 2 MB.
 
The report comprises:

  1. Management summaries of cases
    • TORCH Team PDF
    • TYRO Team PDF
  2. Reports of cases, highlighting sustainable development issues:
    Organization and human resource development
    Ownership structures
    Marketing of consulting services
    Development: new technologies, cultural changes and globalization
    • TORCH Team PDF
    • TYRO Team PDF
  3. Summaries of discussion topics:

    • Comments on 2005 Programme PDF

    • Summary of programme: Workshop Presentation PDF


Participants

Grant Roach, URS Australia Pty Ltd, Australia
James Henshaw, Norman Disney & Young, UK
Jens Christoffersen, Cowi, Denmark
Katsumasa Ohori, CTI Engineering, Japan
Lars Ostenfeld Riemann, Ramboll, Denmark
M. Sina Velioglu, Temelsu International Engineering, Turkey
M.W. van Dongen, Witteveen + Boos, Holland 
Marco Fantozzi, PRAS Consulting – Progettisti Associati, Italy
Mattijs Hehenkamp, Grontjmij Consulting Engineers, Holland
Michele Cortesi, Studio Cortesi, Italy
Patrick Piepers, Arcadis, Holland
Peter Koulos, Norman Disney & Young, Australia
Ronald Dubbeldam, Grontmij Consulting Engineers, Holland
Søren Skov, Ramboll, Denmark
Thomas Franke, Gopa, Germany
Yong-Chan Kim, Yooshin Engineering Corp., Korea

Report
 
The consolidated report of the FIDIC 2004 Young Professionals Management Training Programme  is available PDF.
 
The report comprises:

  1. Management summaries of cases
  2. Reports of cases

    • Organization and human resource development

    • Ownership structures

    • Marketing of consulting services

    • Development: new technologies, cultural changes and globalization

  3. Summaries of discussion topics:

    • Cross cultural differences and assistance and support by FIDIC

    • Overall conclusions and recommendations (in progress);

    • A business case for "the engineering firm of the future" (in progress).


Information about the FIDIC 2008 Young Professionals Management Training Programme is available from:
  • Programme content and course details: Steen Frederiksen, FIDIC Coordinator
    Rønnevej 13, DK-3480 Fredensborg, Denmark Tel: +45 (-) 48 48 08 96; Fax: +45 (-) 48 47 65 75; sf@sf-consult.dk
  • Registration and general information: Silvia Fossati, Event Manager, FIDIC; Tel: +41-22-799 49 00;  Fax: +41-22-799 49 01; fidic@fidic.org

 
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