Summary: Play Now: This episode is sponsored by The PM PrepCast for The PMP Exam: Globalization and internationalization continue to change the diversity of businesses and our projects. Corporate structures mirror these trends. However, it seems that “diversity” mostly focuses on gender, age or origin. And diversification of employees is not the objective of diversity management. Roland Dumont du Voitel (http://www.amontis.com/ - http://de.linkedin.com/pub/dr-roland-dumont-du-voitel/14/9b7/567) says that there is much more to it. He says that building on diversity focused on individual talents and qualities changes both corporations and provides also higher levels of creativity. This applies even more to project structures than to corporations. In project management we see that diversity is not a goal in itself. Its importance comes from the tasks and objectives of the projects. Just think of the diversity you create with mergers, acquisitions, global software projects, or even offshoring of services. So hear Roland take a look at the pros and cons of applying diversity management in a mature project management environment, review its impact on culture and management, but also discuss the resistance to that change. Roland Dumont du Voitel will be speaking on the topic of the PMO and Capitalizing on Diversity on April 29th at the 2014 Project Zone Congress in Frankfurt Germany. Find out more at http://projectzonecongress.com/ Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to Episode # 266. This is the Project Management Podcast at www.pm-podcast.com and I am Cornelius Fichtner. Welcome back. Globalization and internationalization continue to change the diversity of businesses and our project's corporate structures, they mirror these trends. However, it seems that diversity mostly focuses on gender, age or origin. But diversification of employees is not the objective of diversity management. Roland Dumont du Voitel says that there is much more to it. He says that building on diversity focus on individual talents and qualities, changes both corporations and provides also higher level creativity. This applies even more to project structures than to corporations. In project management, we see that diversity is not a goal in itself. It's importance comes from the tasks and objectives of the projects. Just think of the diversity you create with mergers, acquisitions, global software projects, or even offshoring of services. So here, Roland take a look at the pros and cons of applying diversity management in a mature project management environment, review its impact on culture and management, but also discuss the resistance to that change. And by the way, Roland Dumont du Voitel will be speaking on the topic of PMO and Capitalizing on Diversity on April 29th at the 2014 Project Zone Congress in Frankfurt, Germany. So if you are listening to this interview here before then, you can find out more at www.projectzonecongress.com. And now, enjoy the interview. Podcast Interview Female voice: The Project Management Podcast’s feature Interview: Today with Roland Dumont du Voitel, Managing Partner and CEO of www.amontis.com. Cornelius Fichtner: Hello Roland and welcome to The Project Management Podcast™! Roland Dumont du Voitel: Good afternoon, Cornelius! Cornelius Fichtner: So you will be speaking at the upcoming Project Zone Congress and your topic is PMO and Capitalizing on Diversity. What is it about the topic of diversity and capitalizing on it that interests you? Roland Dumont du Voitel: From my belief, diversity is one element of intellectual capital or intellectual essence of a company. I think we cannot be global with an ethnocentric paradigm. So diversity is an asset and we're not really using it. We try to reduce it to a standard we're used to and just to include them into our everyday way we handle things, w
