| Date: 11 April 2012 Trainer: Andreas Petrou Location: CIIM Building, Nicosia
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Overview
As projects are an integral part of business life and often have significant impact on business success and failure, it is imperative that executives have a good understanding of how projects are identified, prioritised and managed to produce business benefits.
Through application of real case studies participants will become exposed to a selection and initiation of projects, the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and business stakeholders. Special emphasis will be placed on stakeholder management, as this is one of the most critical tasks of the project manager. Participants will also be exposed to the project lifecycle; planning, project execution (controlling resources, managing risks) and termination.
Objectives
- Understand the critical success factors for delivering benefits through projects
- Become exposed to organisational structures that foster project-based management
- Understand the role of project manager and business stakeholders
- Be able to plan, mobilise and control a project
- Learn how to manage resources; budgets and people
Audience
- Executives and Managers wanting to overview the principles of project-based management and their contribution to their firm’s success
- Project Managers who want to be up to date on cutting edge practices in project management. This may be within any function of the organisation including product development and information technology
Content
- Types of projects
- Criteria for prioritisation
- Roles and responsibilities
- Stakeholders
- The Project manager
- Team roles
- Work Break-down Structure
- Scheduling
- Resources
- Reporting
- Managing people
- Controlling change
Faculty: Andreas Petrou
Andreas Petrou is Assistant Professor of Strategy. He teaches classes for the MBA programme and executive courses on strategy design, strategy execution and project management.
Professor Petrou worked for a number of years as a consultant with Accenture where he helped companies design and implement strategies. He designed and implemented performance management systems for a number of Cypriot and other European organizations, and trained staff of how to employ this tool for facilitating strategy implementation and change. His performance management assignments include training and/or consulting with companies such as Unicom, CTO, Uniteam, Neocleous and Co, Thomas Cook, Barclays, Vodafone and Aviva.
Fees and General Information
This seminar is approved and subsidized for the amount of 133€ by the Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA). HRDA sponsors companies that satisfy their criteria.
The fees are €267 per participant for companies eligible to HRDA subsidy and €400 per participant without HRDA subsidy.
This individual session is part of the Executive Development Programme.
It is possible to attend this individual seminar should places be available.
Fees include tuition, educational materials, coffee breaks and meals.
Due to CIIMs non-profit status NO VAT is charged
