About this Presentation
Ian Heptinstall tells Eli Schragenheim about big projects with several subcontractors and the better way to generate the required collaboration for better, safer and quicker completion. How the generic idea can be translated to other types of win-win collaborations between organizations and individuals with different interests? What is the TOC contribution to creating the right rules for such collaboration to truly work? In his early career, Ian managed projects in the process industries in the UK, France and Belgium, followed by time as a project management coach and adviser. In the late 1990’s he held a lead role in an award-winning project that was one of the first to apply the Project Alliance principles developed in the Oil and Gas industry’s CRINE initiative to smaller projects outside of the Oil and Gas sector. Around 2000, he moved into a global procurement role in the pharmaceutical industry, and later that decade was Chief Procurement Officer for a UK construction company before moving into full-time consultancy in 2011. Ian is a qualified mechanical engineer, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. He was fairly late to TOC, although he did read the Goal in the 80’s and Critical Chain in the 90’s. He lives in the UK and Switzerland.
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Instructor(s)
Ian Heptinstall
Ian is an Associate Professor of Project Management at the University of Birmingham (UK).
He is a late-career academic, joining the University after 35 years of working in project management, procurement and management consulting.
His project & procurement experience primarily in the capex, construction & engineering fields.
He has been a regular TOCICO Conference attendee since 2011, and in 2020 he helped set up the annual Critical Chain virtual conference, to share CC real world experience with project management practitioners who have little or no knowledge of TOC or critical chain.
In 2016 he published “The Executive Guide to Breakthrough Project Management” about overcoming obstacles to using critical chain on capital/construction projects, in collaboration with Robert Bolton, and he supported Rene Nibbelke in producing the APM’s “Senior Managers’ and Project Managers’ Guide to Critical Chain” (2024