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Advanced & Specialised Project Management

Aligning Project Management with Organisational Strategy

Ensure your project has credibility by aligning it with your organisational goals.

  

 

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This Course is Perfect for:

  • Exploring how and why organisational decisions are made
  • Aligning your projects to the overall business strategy

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You Will Learn to:

  • Understand and support top-level strategy formulation
  • Link organisational strategy from business strategy to portfolio development and project implementation
  • Ensure project credibility by aligning your project with your organisation’s goals, objectives and strategies
  • Create and implement an appropriate strategy for your project
  • Understand the need to communicate your strategy to the project team, the customer and other project stakeholders
  • Manage stakeholder expectations to maintain portfolio/project alignment

Course Overview

In today’s highly competitive environment, it is essential that a project manager thinks strategically about how projects contribute to organisational success and ultimately, to business level success. This course gives you an in-depth analysis of the aligning process, from business strategy formation to portfolio development. Learn how to link your projects to corporate strategy and manage the expectations of stakeholders and projects heavyweights.

Course Topics

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  1. Organisational Strategy in Context
    1. Strategy defined
    2. Strategy as a way to achieve organisational success
    3. Paradigm shifts and their impact—how change influences strategy
    4. Forces for business change
    5. The impact of organisational constraints on strategy
  2. Organisational Strategy: Approaches and Techniques
    1. Strategy as a key to organisational success
    2. Elements of a successful strategy
    3. The relationship between strategy and achievability
    4. Strategy assessments
    5. Classic approaches and techniques for level-setting strategic thinking
    6. Towards setting up a culture of strategic thinking
  3. Portfolio Management: Strategic Context
    1. Defining a portfolio
    2. Identifying projects included in a portfolio
    3. The impact of portfolio management on strategy
    4. Challenges and benefits of portfolio management
    5. Influential roles in portfolio management
  4. Portfolio Set-up and Maintenance
    1. Setting up a successful project portfolio
    2. Organisational influences of portfolios
    3. Generating potential portfolio projects
    4. Steps in selecting portfolio projects
    5. Integrating new projects into an existing portfolio
    6. Project performance and project gateway reviews
    7. The project filtering process
  5. Strategic Project Management
    1. Strategic vs. classic project management
    2. Aligning projects with strategy
    3. The role of the project team
    4. The importance of managing change that affects strategic projects
    5. Anticipating and managing stakeholder expectations and resistance
  
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Public Course Information

Duration: 3 days
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 22.5
Fee: £1695 excl. VAT

* PMI® members get 15% off this course.
Valid membership number required.

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Course Dates (click on a date to book)

8-10 Sep 2010, Frankfurt

18-20 Oct 2010, London
In-house Corporate Training

This course is available as in-house corporate training. Available to groups of 10 or more (please note this is a guideline). To find out more about corporate training for your organisation click here.

“Lively and very effective”

David Gouldthorpe,
Project Manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb

 
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