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Cornelius Fichtner of PM Podcast and Richard Larson of Watermark Learning<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The paper explores several aspects of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs and what it means for business analysis. Our firm belief is that by adopting a more entrepreneurial way of working, practitioners will be more effective and organizations will benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n Listen to the podcast\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Cornelius Fichtner<\/strong>: Hello everyone and welcome back to the Project Management Podcast at\u00a0www.pm-podcast.com.<\/span><\/a>We are coming to you live from the Exhibit Hall here at the 2015 PMI Global Congress in Orlando, Florida at Disneyworld. And sitting next to me is Richard Larson from Watermark Learning. Hello, Richard.<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Larson:\u00a0<\/strong>Hello Cornelius, glad to be here.<\/span><\/p>\n Cornelius Fichtner:<\/strong>\u00a0Good morning. Good morning.<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Larson:\u00a0<\/strong>Good morning.<\/span><\/p>\n Cornelius Fichtner:<\/strong>\u00a0My first question to everybody at the congress is, what’s coming our way next year? What do you see as a project management trend for 2016? What do our listeners have to be aware of?<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Larson:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, I think the trend has been brewing for awhile in terms of project managers being more business leaders rather than project implementers per se. And that you can see that happening with the new CCR changes from PMI in terms of real big emphasis on leadership. And so that, the presentation that I’m doing, we’ll get into this question a bit later, I understand, but applies to project managers as much as business analysts in terms of being more entrepreneurial. And that’s just one manifestation that the leadership trend. There are many others. There’s speakers like my wife Elizabeth who\u2019s going to be talking about innovation that\u2019s certainly key and that’s hot and how can we help the business succeed. Over and above, we’re just doing our job as project implementers.<\/span><\/p>\n Cornelius Fichtner:<\/strong>\u00a0All right. Your talk is about Entrepreneurial Business Analysis Practitioners. Why did you choose this topic? What’s your interest in this?<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Larson:\u00a0<\/strong>Well, it came together when I was asked to do a key note at a business analysis conference last fall in New Zealand. And we’re talking about different topics like innovation, and they said, no, no, we’re already been there, done that, which proves kind of interesting. They needed something beyond that, and they thought that an entrepreneurial element to it, knowing that I was an entrepreneur, having been running a company for 23 years, would know something about the topic, which is true. But then how can a business analyst or how can people practicing business analysis be more entrepreneurial in what they do? And so the talk kind of grew from that and I really got interested in it. And I have been writing a series of articles in BA Times and Project Times over the last year on this topic. And I hope to have an e-book with my wife Elizabeth being published at some point around the first of the year or so. And it does really grown a lot in my mind in terms of more than just being entrepreneurial after you leave your job as a BA or a PM. But applying it to entrepreneurs on the job, which I really taken it to a new level in terms of focusing on entrepreneurship where people who are project professionals let\u2019s say, it doesn’t matter if you’re highly a business analyst or project manager. But if you do any kind of project related work which this congress is probably focused on, of course, can be entrepreneurs within your organization as intrapreneur.<\/span><\/p>\n Cornelius Fichtner:<\/strong>\u00a0So the presentation you’re doing and our discussion here is also interesting for project managers because after all, we are the Project Management Podcast and not the Business Analysis Podcast<\/span><\/p>\n Richard Larson:\u00a0<\/strong>Right, yeah. And to some extent, the name Business Analysis in the title, I hope it doesn’t dissuade project managers from attending. And we picture it that way in part because we’ve been working with Dave Big whose in-charge of the business analysis portfolio here at PMI. And wanted to help him with the business analysis track but it really is applicable in anybody in a project role.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"play](\"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/play-button.jpeg\")
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