It’s Objective: To Teach Students the Value of Effective Project Management within an Organization

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Houston, TX — Blue Marble Risk Solutions’ Managing Partner/Co-Founder Michael F. Matthews was a guest lecturer to the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business - Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ENTR 3312 class on Intrapreneurship. The discussion focused on effective project management skills within an organization to facilitate innovation and change. Highlights included framing projects and defining scope and objectives, securing key stakeholder support, learning critical project management and control skills for leading internal projects, and recognizing the importance of organizational change management, as shown in the Intrapreneur - Project Management presentation.

ENTR 3312 - Intrapreneurship is taught by Professor Kaufmann who advises students on the organizational processes from the chief executive’s perspective to illustrate how an intrapreneur contributes value by helping the company achieve its strategic objectives. Professor Kaufmann is with Kaufmann Capital Advisors - a financial and management consulting firm - bkaufmann.com.

Michael F. Matthews
Michael F. Matthews and Katherine K. Molly co-founded Blue Marble Risk Solutions in mid-2007. Mike’s 20 years of experience are extensive. By the time he had reached the position of Director of Operations Excellence at Honeywell International, Mike had designed and implemented Honeywell organizational change across diverse business models, information systems, and infrastructures. He was responsible for leading the international project controls group and improving business processes for an impressive $1.2 billion global project portfolio. Among his accomplishments were: the implementation of a $40 million cost productivity improvement through the development and implementation of Six Sigma driven improvement process; as well as a $12 million gross margin improvement through the establishment of company-wide global standards and best practices for Project Management and Controls.