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All projects need an executive sponsor.\u00a0 Upper management support for projects consistently surfaces as a critical success factor and sets the pace for how an organization implements projects.\u00a0 However, organizations often do not spend the time and money to understand what sponsorship is, why doing it better is important, and how to improve.\u00a0 Alfonso Bucero, PMP, brings an international perspective to this challenge.\u00a0 As a senior project manager for HP services in Europe, he faced challenges in getting appropriate upper management support on client projects.\u00a0 He took the initiative to address stakeholder analysis, propose and establish a PMO, train sponsors on roles and responsibilities, and conduct project reviews: all focused on upgrading a culture that struggled to meet project expectations.\u00a0 Building upon these learnings, Alfonso now manages projects across Europe and Asia for BUCERO PM Consulting and writes “Crossing Borders” for PMI’s PM Network as a Contributing Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/tom-kendirck.thumbnail.jpg\")
Get tangible examples about business risks management and get prepared to implement them within organizations: or at least challenge the status quo and have something to propose, based upon successful implementations elsewhere.\u00a0 As a senior project manager at Visa and formerly at HP, practitioner and author Tom Kendrick, PMP, explores the connection between project risk management and program, portfolio, and enterprise risk management as well as shares experiences about what it takes to get results when lacking the requisite authority.\u00a0 <\/strong> <\/strong>These topics are the subject of the three books he’s authored.\u00a0 Tom and I worked together at the HP corporate Project Management Initiative.\u00a0 We both take pride in the work we did to lead the continuous improvement of project management across the company.<\/p>\n