Dr. Pieter Steyn
Pretoria and Western Cape, South Africa


Founder, Director, Principal
Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management
Dr Pieter Steyn is Founder and Principal of Cranefield College of Project and Programme Management, a South African Council on Higher Education / Department of Education accredited and registered Private Higher Education Institution. The Institution offers an Advanced Certificate, Advanced Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma, Master's degree, and PhD in project and programme-based leadership and management. Professor Steyn holds the degrees BSc (Eng), MBA, and PhD in management, and is a registered Professional Engineer.
He was formerly professor in the Department of Management, University of South Africa and Pretoria University Business School. He founded the Production Management Institute of South Africa, and in 1979 pioneered Project Management as a university subject at the post-graduate level at the University of South Africa.
Dr Steyn founded consulting engineering firm Steyn & Van Rensburg (SVR). Projects by SVR include First National Bank Head Office (Bank City), Standard Bank Head Office, Mandela Square Shopping Centre (in Johannesburg) as also, Game City- and The Wheel Shopping Centres (in Durban). He, inter alia, chaired the Commission of Enquiry into the Swaziland Civil Service; and acted as Programme Manager for the Strategic Transformation of the Gauteng Government's Welfare Department and Corporate Core.
Pieter co-authored the “International Handbook of Production and Operations Management,” (Cassell, London, 1989, ed. Ray Wild) and is the author of many articles and papers on leadership and management. He is a member of the Association of Business Leadership, Industrial Engineering Institute, Engineering Association of South Africa, and Project Management South Africa (PMSA); and a former member of the Research Management Board of IPMA. He serves on the Editorial Board of the PM World Journal. Pieter is also Director of the De Doornkraal Wine Estate in Riversdale, Western Cape.
Professor Steyn can be contacted at cranefield1@cranefield.ac.za. For information about Cranefield College, visit www.cranefield.ac.za.
Updated 10 December 2016
Articles and Papers
- Leading Virtual Dynamic Learning Organizations - Featured Paper - Steyn, Semolic - May 2020
- Project and Program Management Acumen: The Catalyst for Industry 4.0 Organizational Success - Featured Paper - Steyn, Semolic - September 2019
- Industry 4.0 Collaborative Research, Innovation and Development (RID) Projects - Featured Paper - Semolic, Steyn - August 2018
- Chief Portfolio Officer: The Industry 4.0 Value Chain Change Agent - Featured Papers - Steyn, Van den Berg, Semolic - July 2018
- Designing Industry 4.0 Virtual Networks of Partners Value Chains - Featured Papers - Steyn, Semolic - May 2018
- The Evolution of Programme Management towards Governance of Industry 4.0 Organisations - Featured Papers - Steyn, Zovitsky - March 2018
- Industry 4.0 Virtual Value Chains and Collaborative Projects - Featured Papers - Steyn, Semolic - September 2017
- Collaboratism: A Solution to Declining Globalisation and Rising Protectionism - Featured Papers - Steyn, Semolic - March 2017
- Project and Programme Managers are Positive Change Agents - Commentaries - Steyn - December 2016
- The Critical Role of Chief Portfolio Officer in Governing a Network of Partner Organizations in the Emerging “Collaboratist Economy” - Featured Papers - Steyn, Semolic - February 2016
- A Business Model for Programme Managing the Supply Chain Portfolio - Featured Papers - Steyn - March 2013
- Sustainable Strategic Supply Chain Leadership and Management - Featured Papers - Steyn - December 2012
- Is it important to recognise knowledge? - Commentaries - Steyn - August 2011
- THE NEED FOR A CHIEF PORTFOLIO OFFICER (CPO) IN ORGANISATIONS - Featured Papers - Steyn - July 2010
- Programme Managing the Supply Chain Portfolio - Featured Papers - Steyn - June 2010
- THE EMERGENT ROLE OF CHIEF PROGRAMME OFFICER (CPO) - Featured Papers - Steyn - November 2009