New Challanges for the Same Problems

Mainly due to the global financial crisis, Peruvian agribusiness and exports industries had a strong slow down during the latest months. Many cities in which total employment was achieved some years ago are currently again underemployed. The Government reacted slowly having an “anti-crisis plan”, but apparently the poor definition of this plan caused the resignation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The new Minister encouraged some measurements for a “controlled” public investment and some measurements to “maintain the economic activity”. But again, the absence of an explicit explanation of what the vision of the country is, is still keeping low the confidence of the population and the industries on the future of the country.

As reported many times before at PMForum.com, the problems in Peru are not related to the scarcity of natural and economical resources, neither to the absence of human resources, but to the absence of an appropriate management culture. Probably, one of the most important challenges nowadays in Peru, is the urgency of speeding up the learning curve to make the private sector, public sector and social agents work together to build up a country vision. The absence of a vision is, in my opinion, much worse than not having financial resources, but the Peruvian press is probably asking the wrong questions to the political leaders. Instead of asking if there is enough money to avoid “consequences” of the crisis, we may ask if there is more clarity to know (if we would have all the necessary financing) what to do with the money to impact the condition of the citizens, especially those most vulnerable. From the project management point of view, it is probably mostly scope and quality - the couple of issues to pay attention to.

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About the Author José Carlos Machicao José Machicao, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum andPM World Today in Lima, Perú.  Mr. Machicao is also an Organizational Project Management consultant, working in the public and private sectors in Perú. Mr. Machicao has a Masters Degree in Energy from the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK, and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.  He is a member of the Colegio de Ingenieros (Peruvian Association of Professional Engineers), the World Energy Council, the Association of Energy Engineers, and the Project Management Institute (PMI®).  He is currently Education Director for the PMI GovSIG®. Additional information about José can be seen at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.  José Machicao can be contacted at jcmachicao@gmail.com, and http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/jcmachicao.

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