The Strategy Areas
PMI has following Straregy areas:
* Marketing, external relationships and branding
* Events
* Activities and initiatives outside metropolitan area
* Membership (and increase), internal communication, certification and PDUs
* Knowledge and publications
* Competence
* IT and Web
Marketing
Short term targets
* Promote in selected companies the project management profession and PMI’s offering and cogresses
* Motivate and create equal possibilities to education providers to deliver workshops and subject presentations on non-commercial basis
* Promoting cost sharing between companies on bringing renowned speakers to Finland
Long term targets
* Promote project management profession and PMI’s offering in companies and organizations
* To participate and give presentations and opinions in public events and media
External Relations
Short term targets
* Attract and motivate sponsorships (media, industry, REPs)
* Make web site representative media for external communication
* To promote International Project Management day and Projektipäivät
Long term targets
* High level relations to PMIProject management ISO standards development
* Develop and coordinate activities with PMAF and IPMA
* Introduce project management to children in schools
* To monitor opinions and initiatives within Chapter membership and forward them to PMI
Commitee is chaired by Seppo Halminen. Contact information Seppo.Halminen (at) pmifinland.org
Events
Short term target
* Determine feasible event intensity per calendar year
* Formalize planning of event related income and costs
* Member satisfaction to increased event activity and quality
Long term targets
* Coordinate planning and scheduling of events
* Keep track of assigned event responsibilities
* Help event organizers in practicalities and communications
Activities and initiatives outside metropolitan area
* Promote Project Management Profession
* Arranging some events, speakers and happenings also outside Helsinki, so members would not need to travel always to Helsinki for it
* Sharing experiences and knowledge, improving professional skills
* Networking possibilities
* Arranging PDU gaining possibilities also in Vaasa and elsewhere to renew PMP certificate
Vaasa Region
* 26 PMI Members currently in Vaasa Region, mostly from Wärtsilä
* Meeting with all members scheduled to discuss interests and plan forward
* Cooperation with Vaasa PM Club (lead by Vaasa University) and with Vaasa region international companies (Wärtsilä- ABB- Vacon- Citec etc)
Membership
Short term targets
* Maintain a membership/PMP register:
* Find growth rate over past years
* Find value added for members
Long term targets
* Means and support to gain new members (e.g. presentations)
* Set a target growth rate
* Involve more members actively in the PMI Finland operations (volunteer work)
Internal communication
Short term targets
* Establish communications guidelines (e.g. email, newsletter) à comms standard
Long term targets
* Support others in their communications efforts (e.g. newsletter, web-pages, breakfast roundtable)
Certification & PDU
Short term targets
* Collect available information on certification and PDU among PMI Finland members and PMI
* Publish information about certification (e.g. newsletter, web-pages)
* FAQ
* sample questions
Long term targets
* Provide learning aids for the exams (CAPM, PMP, PgMP)
* “Who else is studying for the exam right now?”
PDU's
* Provide information how to claim and collect PDUs
* Arrange practicalities for collecting PDUs for events
Commitee is chaired by Bernhard Korjonen. Contact information to Bernhard is : bernhard.korjonen (at) pmifinland.org
Knowledge and publications
Make the PMI Finland Chapter a place that is referred to by PM practitioners by providing articles (not necessarily original) about all aspects of project management and promote interactive discussion about PM.
Area is chaired by Tony McGlinn. Contact Tony at: tony.mcglinn (at) pmifinland.org
Competence development
The Competence Committee defines the Competence development as follows:
PMI Chapter Finland is an active member in the PM competence development field by creating offering, which is not provided by the mainstream training providers and is supporting the development of high-end project management professionals in PMI Finland community.
PMI Chapter Finland also provides competence development for company managers that creates platform for higher appreciation of project management profession
Commitee is chaired by Bernhard Korjonen. Contact information to Bernhard is : bernhard.korjonen (at) pmifinland.org
Online services and IT
* Ensure high quality online services to PMI Finland members and interested readers
* Support board members and other members in content creation
* Support board members in email accounts
* Support with IT vendor management issue
Commitee is chaired by Jarmo Kinnula. Contact information to Jarmo is: jarmo.kinnula (at) pmifinland.org |
