Associate Professor Dr. Saulius Šimkonis is Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (PPM) practitioner, consultant, trainer with 20+ years of experience. He has IPMA-A, Project Management Professional (PMP) and PRINCE2 Practitioner certificates and is recognized as IPMA Assessor in Lithuania.
Currently Saulius is Project Portfolio Manager at Swedbank. He was having Project Management Process Manager and Department Manager positions in the same company earlier. Previously he worked at Oracle as Principle Project Manager. Through his career Saulius was leading major projects, programmes and improvement initiatives, consulting and delivering training in the field of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management, process maturity improvement, risk management, and facilitating individual lessons learned sessions.
Saulius graduated from ISM University of Management and Economics. Later he defended his dissertation “Factors influencing lessons learned processes in innovative projects” in Vilnius University. Before joining as a Head of Project Management Program at ISM Executive School, he was leading International Project Management programme at Vilnius University Business School and was a lecturer at Vilnius University and ISM University of Management and Economics.
Saulius is a member of Project Management Institute and Lithuanian Project Management Association (LPVA).
Tyrimų sritys
Project, program and Portfolio Management
Lessons learned in projects
Balanced leadership
Horizontal and vertical leadership in projects
Dėstymo sritys
Project, program and portfolio management
Risk management
Lessons learned
Publikacijos
Unterhitzenberger, C., Müller, R., Vaagaasar, A. L., Ke, Y., Alonderienė, R., Minelgaite, I., Pilkienė, M., Wang, L., Zhu, F., Drouin, N., Chmieliauskas, A., Šimkonis, S., & Mongeon, M. (2023). A multilevel governance model for interorganizational project networks. Project Management Journal, 54(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728221131254
Müller, R., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaitė, I., Mongeon, M., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., Wang, L., & Zhu, F. (2022). Governance of interorganizational project networks. Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute.
Müller, R., Alix-Séguin, C., Alonderienė, R., Bourgault, M., Chmieliauskas, A., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaite, I., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., Wang, L., & Zhu, F. (2022). A (meta)governance framework for multi-level governance of inter-organizational project networks. Production Planning & Control, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2022.2146018
Wang, L., Müller, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Alonderienė, R., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaitė, I., Mongeon, M., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., & Zhu, F. (2022). Balancing hierarchy and network: Governance of inter-organizational networks for projects. In European Academy of Management Conference, 15-17 June (pp. 1-40). Zurich: EURAM
Alonderienė, R., Müller, R., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., & Chmieliauskas, A. (2022). Transitions in balanced leadership in projects: The case of horizontal leaders. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 3339-3351. http://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.3041609
Šimkonis, S., Müller, R., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., & Pilkienė, M. (2021). Multi-level governance in interorganizational project settings. In British Academy of Management Conference Proceedings 2021, 31 August – 3 September (Online) (pp. 1-20). British Academy of Management
Alonderienė, R., Müller, R., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., & Chmieliauskas, A. (2020). Transitions in balanced leadership in projects: The case of horizontal leaders. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 3339-3351. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.3041609
Chmieliauskas, A., Grigorjevaitė, K., & Šimkonis, S. (2020). New role of systems analysts in Agile requirements engineering. In V. Škudienė, J. Li-Yang, & F. Bernhard (Eds.), Innovation Management: perspectives from strategy, product, process and human resources research (pp. 114-138). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909814.00019
Pilkienė, M., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Šimkonis, S., & Müller, R. (2018). The governance of horizontal leadership in projects. International Journal of Project Management, 36(7), 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.06.002
