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International executive programs
Project-Driven Organizations
Creating strong capabilities for organizational change and transformation
Program Overview
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, and
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 challenging three-day international executive
program that focuses on developing the internal capabilities needed for project
identification, prioritization, implementation, control, championing and integration
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.
Throughout this program you will:
• Gain cross-industry understanding of the key strategies and critical factors
that lead to project success or failure.
• Acknowledge the importance of programs: acquire methods to successfully
select, prioritize and plan project portfolios given your business context.
• Understand the building blocks behind successful project implementation
and learn to apply this foundation within your own organization.
• Recognize the detailed upfront planning required to create a homogenous vision of
each project’s critical-path and project closing.
• Attain key insights into the different approaches available to accelerate
and maintain project schedules, and the risk assessments required to limit
project deviations.
• Learn how to manage common “project hurdles”, as well as, change
requests.
• Apply effective management tools and metrics to control outcomes and
resources.
• Understand the success factors associated to your personal performance as
project champion.
• Grasp the importance of external and internal communication.
• Realize the power of project “ownership” and learn how to reinforce the
collaboration of your team.
Program Structure
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”.
• Project Champions: facing change and how to map your change challenges.
• Recognizing the greatest barriers to integrations and how to overcome them.
The Project Office as the key enabler for organizational change
• Defining the Project Office as a vehicle for organizational change.
• Implementing Project Offices.
• Executing change that adds value to your organization.
• Methodologies, tools and frameworks that support and drive your projects to success.
Managing Project Portfolios: defining the Portfolio Matrix
• Aligning project initiatives to corporate strategy.
• Prioritizing and selecting projects.
General Information
Price: €3,800
Location: Madrid, 7, 8 and 9 of October, 2009 and May 2010
For further information, please contact:
Karen Hobbs
International Executive Program Manager
María de Molina, 27
28006 Madrid, Spain
Tel.: +34 91 568 97 64 / 96 69
Karen.Hobbs@ie.edu
www.execed.ie.edu/internationalprograms
• Allocating resources to project requirements.
• Creating governance mechanisms.
Project Planning: preparing your team for project management
• Demystifying project management.
• Defining your team’s role and the importance of the role of Project Champion.
• Aligning resources with the critical-path.
• Understanding barriers and risks: scope and approach.
Executing and Managing Projects
• Executing project planning & estimating schedules: project integration,
time, cost, scope and change management.
• Managing relationships with third parties: consultants, IT developers and suppliers.
• Communicating progress.
• Estimating risk assessments and mitigations.
• Controlling project results: managing metrics, documenting process and
project closing.
Leading Virtual and Matrix Organizations
• Getting everyone to work together, at a distance or in different 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 from your team.
• Managing lack of alignment between teams and stakeholders: working
through the politics.
• Delegation: how to do it effectively with a minimum investment in time and resources.
Who the Program is Designed for
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.
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