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Graham Winch Graham Winch

Professor of Project Management, Alliance Manchester Business School

Graham is Professor of Project Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, a role he has held since 2004. He has run construction projects and researched various aspects of innovation and project management across a wide variety of engineering sectors. He was formerly Academic Director for Executive Education at AMBS, including accountability for project leadership programmes such as Managing Projects for BP, and Leading Complex Projects Programmes and Portfolios programme for BAE Systems.

He is author of Managing Construction Projects (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), co-author of Strategic Project Organizing (OUP, 2022), and co-editor of Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing (Edward Elgar, 2023). He has published over 60 refereed journal articles, complemented by numerous book chapters, conference papers, and research reports.

Graham’s current research focuses on the role of owners as investors in, and operators of, economic infrastructure in collaboration with ICE’s Project 13 initiative, and on construction productivity funded by UK Research and Innovation through The Productivity Institute.

Session: Projecting for the Future: Harmonising Energy and Environment

APM launched Projecting the Future in June 2019 to debate the challenges and opportunities for the profession, building on the 2017 Future of Project Management exercise conducted by Arup and University College London. Its premise was that we are in the early phases of the 4th industrial revolution while also facing remarkably wicked grand challenges such as achieving net zero by 2050.

Projecting will undoubtedly play a profound role in these transformations, as they did during the first three industrial revolutions, but much of our current practice is rooted in the 3rd industrial revolution when PERT was lauded as the “the first management tool of the nuclear and computer age”. This presentation will provide the initial results from this third phase of reflection on the future of our profession.