‘PMISAARC Conference 2010 will be held from 24-26 September 2010, at Hotel Galadari’
Today's , CEO is a Project / Programme Manager for his company and to his employees. Most of them may not agree to this, however if logically analyze a Good CEO is a Good Project Manager , who always Achieves all his/her Company Goals Positive results with higher profit margins, while keeping all his Stake holders satisfied.

(Share holders, Board of Directors, Customers, Employees and Suppliers not forgetting the Authorities too). CEO also need to be like a Programme manager who also must emphasizes the coordinating and prioritizing of resources across organisation. Similar in the Programme management. CEOs must have Programmes that are normally designed to deliver the organization's strategy.

Analogy
Today CEO's job responsibility is to meet the Board of directors, shareholders and also employees.
These expectations are to be met according to an annual business plan, which means he has to drive the teams to achieve the Results yearly, quarterly, or even monthly, not only aspect of financial but also customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction too.

Project Stake Holders:
Analysis of the chart of the stake holders according to he or she has to satisfy in terms of Project management Terminology are 4 categories.

Share holders, (Public or private), board of Directors represents the Share holders, Customers, who
Is the key revenue generator and not the least the Employees - task performers, some time even Further Suppliers/ Partners, who is also part and partial of Business process.

Project Duration: Every CEO will have a one year to achieve the agreed Financial Figures with a planned Profit margins and also customer satisfaction with Market growth - which means achieving the TIME Goal of the Project with COST-Profit which is Triple Constraint in Project Management too.

Hugo Wisidagama, President, Project Management Institute, Colombo Chapter.