Opleiding: Leading Project-Driven Organizations

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Learning purpose

Today, more than ever before, executives are faced with an imperative need to successfully meet and lead change, providing effective results for their organization’s strategic objectives. In effect, these strategic objectives are achieved through the completion of hundreds of simultaneous and competing projects designed to improve organizational performance, which must be additionally completed with a stark shortage of resources. 

The challenge then lies in the ability to optimize these limited resources, while aligning them with both, the organization’s key priorities and the actions that generate the highest impact.

Project-Driven Organizations is a hands-on three-day international executive program that focuses on developing the internal capabilities needed to integrate all aspects of successful complex project completion: organizational factors; how to improve motivation and reduce barriers while championing change, as well as, structural issues; how to identify, prioritize, implement, control and integrate projects with the overall business strategy. 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Project-Driven Organizations has been designed to sharpen your transformational and change management skills through proven project management best practices, and drives participants to a deep understanding of the strategic approaches that successful companies formulate in order to manage the myriad of projects they face, including both hard and soft skills, which will unmistakably improve your organization’s project completion rate of success.

Target audience

This program has been designed for senior executives and managers who must bring complex and heterogeneous projects to successful completion with a minimum investment in time and resources. It provides key insights and practical solutions, which are directly applicable to your business processes, and prepares you to meet the challenges faced by your organization today, and in the future.

The program is particularly targeted at, but not limited to:

• CEOs
• Managing Directors
• General Managers
• Divisional and Functional Managers responsible for change management and project sponsorship
• Chief Project Officers/  Project Managers and Project Team Members
• M&A Managers
• Consultants and experts in project management and organizational change
• Human Resource Directors

Programme

The program features several stimulating modules that analyze complex project management fundamentals from diverse points of view. Topics to be discussed include:

Turning insight into action

• Identifying strategies that improve project outcomes.
• Understanding how to successfully manage change and plan to close the “change-gap”.
• Recognizing the greatest barriers to integrations and how to overcome them.

Leading Virtual and Matrix Organizations

• Managing teams: undertaking individual responsibility for the outcome of the project.
• Time management: where you should focus your time to obtain the biggest impact.
• Managing lack of alignment between teams and stakeholders.
• Delegation: how to do it effectively with a minimum investment in time and resources.

The Project Office as the key enabler for organizational change

• The Project Office and the Company Culture.
• Defining and implementing the Project Office as a vehicle for organizational change.
• Methodologies, tools and frameworks that support and drive your projects to success.

Managing Project Portfolios: defining the Portfolio Matrix

• Prioritizing and selecting projects depending on their fit with corporate strategy.
• Allocating resources to project requirements.
• Creating governance mechanisms.

Project Planning: preparing your team for project management

• Demystifying project management.
• Aligning resources with the critical-path.
• Understanding barriers and risks: scope and approach.

Executing and Managing Projects

• Executing project planning and estimating schedules: time, cost and scope.
• Managing relationships with third parties: consultants, IT developers and suppliers.
• Controlling project results: managing metrics, documenting process and project closing.

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Opleiding kerngegevens

Name institute

IE Business School

Course location(s)

Madrid

Duration

3 days

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In Company/ Tailor-made possible

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