Dr Bennet Lientz
Dr. Bennet Lientz is an internationally-recognised authority in IT management, project management, process improvement and E-Business. His best-selling book Breakthrough Technology Project Management (2nd edition, Academic Press) is one of the highest-rated IT project management books at amazon.com and is widely used as preparation for qualification examinations for project management certification.
Dr Lientz has consulted widely in Asia, Europe, Australia, North and South America and has worked with more than 100 firms in manufacturing, banking, distribution, energy, utilities, retailing, mining, insurance, transportation, and government. Clients have included: Bank of Bangkok, P.T. Astra, Cathay Pacific Airways, Citibank, Banamex, Transamerica, Blue Cross, IBM, Honeywell, General Motors, Department of Defense, NASA, United Technologies, ARCO, Pacific Bell, Hughes Communications. He has managed seven IT organisations ranging up to over 200 employees and numerous IT projects and has ïturned aroundÍ more than 40 failing major IT projects. Ben Lientz is currently Full Professor in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he also served as Director of Information Services and Systems.
He is the author of over 30 books and 75 articles in project management and other areas. His books include Manage IT Right; International Project Management; Breakthrough IT Change Management; Project Management for the 21st Century (a best selling book at PMI); Breakthrough Technology Project Management and Dynamic E-Business Implementation. He is also the series editor for E-Business Solutions at Academic Press and senior editor for the International Journal on Information Technology Education.
Ben Lientz has presented seminars to over 6,000 people in Asia (including Singapore, Japan and China where he received an award in project management from the Chinese Academy of Sciences), Europe, Australia and the Americas. His seminars are distinctive and highly regarded because of their unique combination of formal management principles with the very many lessons learned from extensive experience in the field. Ben Lientz brings to bear a strong focus on the active "what to do" and "how to do" rather than the descriptive "what is it", in the process providing an outstanding learning experience for anyone needing to master the skills of successful project management.
