Project of the Year Award (SPMI POY) 2016-17_Newsletter

POY 2016 17

Newsletter | 13 March 2017

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Newsletter Vol.11 rev.0, 13/Mar/2017 SPMI-PoY2016-17 Awards, Prepared by: Hari Hara, SPMI POY Chair/Board of Director

Thanks to all Winners, Runners-up, Nominated Companies & all Participants, for making the 3rdProject of the Year 2016-17 Awards Exceptional!

SPMI - The Project Management Institute Singapore Chapter which is the Country Chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI), established in the year 1999 is so glad to inform the results for the prestigious 3^rd Project of the Year (POY) award, which had strongly attracted Corporates and Government agencies to obtain a record total number of 27 nominations for the current POY Awards. The POY 2016-17 Award Ceremony-Gala Dinner together with Member’s Nite was conducted at Carlton Hotel on 24^th Feb 2017. The 3rd POY Award Ceremony had attracted nearly 300 registrants from 200 companies.

The POY Award program was conceptualized and delivered, by Mr. Rashid Mohiuddin for the first two years and is the mentor of the program. SPMI president Mr. Umesh Ursekar had inaugurated this award ceremony, shared the importance of Project of the Year award, for recognizing project management excellence in Singapore arena.

The 3^rd POY 2016-17 Awards Chairman Mr. Hari Hara, presented the Overview of the POY 2016-17 award Journey, highlighted the insights of the award categories, along with the broad industrial segmentations where Project Management is largely practiced across various industries. This year, POY awards attracted nominations from various industrial segments viz Information Technology, Banking, Healthcare, Stock-Exchange, Logistics, Airport, EPC companies, Government owned consultancy, International consultancies, Energy & Chemicals, Rail Transportation infrastructure, Marine & offshore engineering firms.

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SPMI was honoured to have Mr. Heng Chee How, Deputy Secretary-General (DSG) of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Senior Minister of State, Prime Minister’s office, Republic of Singapore, as Guest of Honour who had graced this Award event, and also shared the dynamic role of Project Management profession for building Singapore’s Smart Nation vision.

Also, Mr. Hari Hara was honored with a Special Recognition Award by Mr. Heng Chee How, DSG of the NTUC, Senior Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office, for his exemplary leadership and commitment as Chairman of Project of the Year 2016-17 Award program and also POY Volunteer team & POY committee were honored.

SPMI-POY-2016-17 award program was backed-up with a strong line-up of 19 Judges and Evaluation Panel memberswhich includes CIOs, Professors, Senior Vice Presidents, Corporate Directors, EDB director, and other senior executives from the corporate world and reputed institutions (NTU & NUS).

On behalf of SPMI, Senior Minister Mr. Heng Chee How DSG of the NTUC, Senior Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office, presented a Leadership Impact Award, to Mr. Vivek Kumar, Assistant Director-General, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) as recognition for his leadership role in building partnership between NTUC-SPMI over the years.

The 3rd SPMI Project of the Year (POY 2016-17) Awards honoured outstanding and successful projects under two categories:



Winner Company : Singapore Exchange		Winner Company : Land Transport Authority
1stRunner-Up Company : Deutsche Bank AG		1stRunner-Up Company : Changi Airport Group Pte Ltd
2nd Runner-Up [there were Ties for this positon]		2nd Runner-Up
Company: IHiS, SNEC, NHGEI, AIC	Company: DHL Supply Chain	Company: Surbana Jurong Consultants

SPMI POY Chairman Mr. Hari Hara and POY Co-Chair Mr. Velimir Tasic awarded Appreciation Plaques to all Nominated Companies for acknowledging their participation efforts to the POY 2016-17 award program.

The launch date for SPMI POY 2017-18 Awards shall be announced by the SPMI POY Awards Organizing committee in the month of May-Jun 2017. SPMI expects more Corporate & Government agencies participation, where Nomination submission is Free of Charge. There are more opportunities for Sponsorship companies in the upcoming POY 2017-18 Award program.

SPMI once again thanks all participated companies, for making Project of the year 2016-17 Awards so successful and looking forward to your continuous support.

For More details refer PoY 2016-17 Awards Website www.pmi.org.sg/poy2016 and contact SPMI POY committee leaders Email: poy@pmi.org.sg
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About the Author: Mr. Hari Hara, MBA, MSc, PMP®, is an experienced Project Management Professional with keen interest on organizational growth, strategy and business enhancement. He holds double Master’s degree on Business Administration (Rutgers Business School, The State University of New Jersey (USA) as well as Master of Science (CIM) from NTU, Singapore. He has over 17 years of hands-on PM experience in the EPC business. He works as Board of Directors, PMI Singapore since 2015-present, on a PMI Volunteer role. Mr. Hari Hara works in Singapore as a Project Manager, in a global Design, Engineering & Construction firm, JACOBS. For any query related to this article or POY awards, please contact the author via Email: hariiyer10@pmi.org.sg, hariiyer10@yahoo.comor via LinkedIn.