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| Working with New Product Development |
Working with new product development requires a specialized set of project management skills. This course will show you how to work with product developers to reduce cycle time and increase customer satisfaction.
Innovation drives your organization’s growth – and a skilled project team and program manager can drive innovation from initial concept to final result. This course will show you how to manage new product development with an eye toward external markets and internal customers. We’ll show you how to adopt the more flexible leadership style that new product development demands. You’ll also learn how to deal with the challenges that arise when you apply project management to product, process and strategic innovation.
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| Project Management Leadership Summit |
Project management is a sizeable investment that promises increased efficiency. But what obstacles can keep it from delivering on that promise?
This course will help executives, directors and functional and project managers understand the issues that can reduce or eliminate the benefits of project management. You’ll assess your current practices and infrastructure, looking for ways to build in project management capability.
Important note: This course is presented in a “summit” format for executives and managers. You must send at least two members of your organization – an executive involved with project management, and an experienced project manager.
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| Introduction to Project Management for Team Members |
This course outlines the essential processes and knowledge areas, along with the roles and responsibilities of project team members, and the fundamental keys to project success.
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| Project Management for Executives |
Organizations adopt project management expecting that it will increase efficiency. Structure and system problems, however, can reduce or even eliminate return on this sizeable investment. This two-hour session will help you assess your practices and infrastructure, to help you maximize the benefits of project management.
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| Process Improvement, Modeling and Design 101 |
Projects are about generating value, about the future of your organization. Success does not happen by accident, it is the result of determined effort by skilled professionals with a deep knowledge and experience in the domain of change. More and more, people understand that in order to realize the value promised by projects, their organizations must adapt and improve their business processes. Organizations and people must change the way do their work.
This course is designed for anyone who works on business process improvement or management initiatives; including: executives, managers, analysts, project managers, team leaders, technologists or any stakeholder involved in a project dealing with process change.
An overview of a broad breadth of process and process improvement subjects will be covered, from the definition of a process, process design, and modeling to enabling technologies, process improvement and project delivery methodologies. The impact of process change on the organization and change management best practices will also be discussed. This is an intensive, fast paced course combining instructor led presentations, audience sharing of experiences and best practices, and classroom team exercises in process modeling. There will be opportunities for networking and a copy of Michael Hammer’s best selling book “Beyond Reengineering” – How The Process Centered Organization Is Changing Our Work and Our Lives.
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