The effective management of processes is crucial for the production and process-based organizations. Nowadays, if contemporary organizations want to stay competitive, they are urged to think in terms of process-value added to customers/shareholders. Production planning, scheduling activities, and controlling of processes represent essential activities to be performed and monitored by organizations as they implement their key processes, activities, and operations. In addressing these issues, this conference is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing the costs of those processes for which they are accountable. By combining techniques analysis, problems, and examples with a real case study the conference provides delegates with key skills, which are essential in managing and controlling processes/projects in times of increasing global competition.
This course aims at equipping the hiring (line) managers, procurement, and recruiters to maximize the return on investment in the “recruit to contract termination” process of external consultants and contractors for the hiring organizations. Organizations want to enjoy the flexibility of a contractor’s workforce instead of internal staff, but would there be conflicts when contractors and internal staff have to work together? How to ensure seamless team effort among contractors and internal staff? The trend of outsourcing and the continuous interest of shareholders to want organizations to have fewer and fewer headcounts and governments should become smaller and smaller; the importance and popularity of external consultants and contractors keep increasing. How to identify and attract the best contractors/consultants? How to accelerate the onboarding time for contractors/consultants? How to retain them? How to get the most out of them within a flexible contract period? It is quite similar to the case with internal employees, yet there is a significant difference too.
The Project Professional MBA is an intensive program designed to sharpen your management skills and focus on current best practices in project management. Delegates will cover management principles and the project life cycle, based on the best practices found in the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). In this program you will learn how to: Establish and accomplish goals that are linked directly to stakeholder needs. Manage and motivate people more effectively. Understand and effectively utilize strategic planning techniques. Use the Baldrige performance criteria as a standard of excellence and benchmark for your organization. Create and harness the power of high-performance teams. Utilize tried and proven project management tools to get the job done on time, within budget, and in accordance with requirements. Work through a proactive approach to risk that will give you a clear understanding of both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully manage a project executed by contractors throughout its life cycle from initial concept to delivery. Participants in this interactive course will learn all the critical tools required to perform project plans and develop project budgets as well as techniques needed to communicate and manage contractors during the implementation phase
In today’s dynamic and demanding markets, organizations that want to lead and achieve growth that far exceeds what their competition is planning for as well as what they have been used to in the past, cannot afford to be just a good organization, but rather a Great Organisation. Great Organisations need to adopt aggressive, well-balanced, and coordinated strategies to achieve their desired vision. Those strategies need to identify attainable and measurable goals for which the organization can assure that their strategies will be deployed as planned. What does this mean? Organizations that want to become Great Organisations need to shift their strategy from “Running the Business” to “Growing the Business”. This would require those organizations to initiate, strategically align, prioritize, plan, and successfully deliver hundreds of projects to achieve their desired vision. Those will include strategy, operations, new products, new services, and capital investment projects. Projects that will require individuals from the different functional divisions to be set accountable for delivering their scope as well as manage resources, labor, and non-labor, collaborate with other team members and communicate with external and internal stakeholders. Having a project management methodology will strongly help organizations to achieve their strategic objectives.
The decision to proceed with a project is often based almost exclusively on early conceptual cost estimates, and these estimates provide the basis for the cash flow projections and budget forecasts used during the project feasibility study. Unreliable cost estimates can result in significant cost overruns later in the project life when it is too late to contain them. As potential projects are considered, management not only requires cost estimates of high accuracy, they seek opportunities to reduce life-cycle costs, improve budget accuracy, and optimize whole-life project value. Determining which estimation method to use, at each stage of project development, depends on the information available at the time of preparation and its desired accuracy. Besides, decisions regarding optimizing project costs without sacrificing quality or functionality are highly dependent on the use of a set of systematic and logical procedures and techniques to enhance the whole-life project value. This course will provide the delegates with the necessary skills needed for accurately estimating the total cost of their proposed projects, eliminating unnecessary costs, linking cost estimates to selected procurement methods, and enhancing the overall value of project delivery. The course offers a series of estimating techniques and processes to forecast accurately the anticipated costs of projects with a focus on budget estimates, estimates for pre-construction services, estimating contractor and sub-contractor work, estimating general conditions, pricing self-performed work, estimating negotiated contracts, and performing lump-sum and unit-price estimates. The course also presents the value engineering methodology which emphasizes the return-on-investment aspect of decision-making in terms of lifecycle costs during project planning, procurement, and execution. This methodology can be used to identify alternative ideas/solutions at any project phase to produce the client’s best value requirements. Within the project management context, this course significantly enhances cost estimating, budgeting, creative thinking, problem-solving, and informed decision-making skills.
A project is a task that is time-limited and has defined scope and resources. In getting this job done, a project manager faces new challenges all the time. These challenges can be overcome with an organized process, a good and cooperative team, and careful planning. In this course, participants will learn the fundamentals of project management to enable them expertly manage to deliver the on-time, on-budget results, learning, and integration that organizations need.
PPP projects are very `involved with large financial outputs and results. The projects cover infrastructure, power generation, utilities all of which should be performed efficiently and in a sustainable manner. Hence these projects involve major challenges that need to be overcome to deliver a successful project. The achievement or failure of a project will depend on many determinants and the study of case studies included in this training will help guide participants on the dos and don’ts of successful PPP project performance and implementation. Good project development is fundamental to a successful PPP project. The concept of PPP obligates a more collaborative connection between both sectors, fostered by openness and trust. This presents a major shift from the traditional arms-length approach to procuring services and executing projects. Well designed, feasible projects attract greater interest amongst potential investors and demonstrate the potential benefits of taking the project forward to the procurement phase. Therefore, PPP projects critically require specially trained personnel who possess a deep understanding of the many different constraints involved and who display extensive knowledge of how to prepare and commence a PPP project.