Project Management
Being able to understand and tailor Project Management for a
company is complicated and requires skills and understanding that span Business
and Project environments.
Services will be specifically scoped for your organisation, however
some common areas where our consulting services are supplied are listed
below.
Project Management Office
Establishment,
processes, templates, governance, operations and integration with the
business.
Project Start-up Workshops
Seeks common
understanding with stakeholders and aids in getting the project started
efficiently.
Project Performance Planning and Assessment
Depending on the
phase the project is in this includes establishing effective project
controls, project health checks, project reviews and independent project or
business case assessments.
Organisation Project Management Capability
Assessment of current
capability, development of project management improvement plan, training
and education, project selection and resource management processes.
Organisation Management of Projects
Review of project
selection and governance environments and processes, establishment of
reporting, roles and responsibility within the organisation and management
and/or steering committee education.
Recovering Underperforming or Failing Project
Assessment of
current position, options for recovery or closure of project, Independent
advice and hands on assistance to get project back on track quickly.
Supporting Project Managers
Competency
assessment and provision of coaching or specific skills development for
Project Managers.
Supplier evaluation and selection
Review and process
development for selecting Suppliers that achieve desired project outcomes.
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Management Services and Workshops
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Overview
Value
Realisation Group (VRG) is a group of senior practitioners with both
breadth and depth of industry experience in functional
and cross functional management, project management, consulting and
education. We assist organisations to obtain value from their planning, management approaches, initiatives, ensure
alignment with strategic objectives and improve operational effectiveness.
Our consulting is designed to build skills and capability within the
organisation for sustainable improvement.
Management Consulting
Our aim is to work with
you to develop or improve your processes, interactions
and internal capability so you can achieve
higher business value. We have a range of experience and a variety of techniques including the interactive executive
workshops. We apply systems thinking and its tools to allow us to identify
root causes of problems together, so that we can identify and implement
practical and effective solutions., However we
do not approach organisations with preconceived ideas, instead our services
are specifically scoped for your organisation. Some of the more common
areas where our consulting services are applied are listed below.
Management Courses and
Workshops outlines
The course
lecturers are experienced presenters who are also practitioners with hands
on experience in the subject matter. Each course is highly interactive, provides hands on case studies and encourages
discussion of the issues in your organisation context. We provide detailed workbooks and use a case study or
mini case scenarios to allow participants to apply the principles to real
life situations.
Profile of Attendees:
Attendees for the courses
range from Executives,
Functional
or Business Unit Managers, Program Managers, Product Managers, Account
Managers, Portfolio Managers, Senior Project Managers, Strategy Planners
and Finance personnel. All courses can be tailored to the specific
audience.
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Project
Management for Executives
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Designed
for Executives and Managers, this course provides an understanding of the
benefits and approaches to using Project Management to achieve strategies, improvement or
change within an organisation
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Managing
Risk in Business Decisions
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The
basic foundations of qualitative and quantitative risk management: -
establishing a risk management process, planning and identifying risks,
performing risk assessment, developing and implementing risk responses
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Feasibility
Studies and the Business Case
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How
to evaluate and justify a project: structure of a business case, business
vs technical evaluation, quantitative cash flow methods, non-quantitative
methods, specialist analysis tools, what-if (sensitivity) analysis
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Making
the IT Business Case
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Covers
the entire process involved in preparing a
business case or feasibility study for an IT project,
linking the technical justification to the expectations of the business users
and executives who will approve it.
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Bid
and Proposal Management
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How
to plan for and deliver bids in a tight timeframe, roles and
responsibilities in the bid team, commercial issues to be considered,
risk analysis, proper costing of bids, and developing solutions that meet
client needs
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Client
Management
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How
to work with Clients in win-win approach to ensure that Clients are
satisfied with services or product delivered by the Supplier
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Managing Supplier Relationships
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Detailed coverage of complete procurement life cycle,
from initiation to contract administration, including tendering process,
contract development, negotiating and techniques for sharing risk with
Suppliers
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Establishing
Effective Project Management Offices
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Roles
& responsibilities of Establishing, Managing and Leading Project
Management Offices. tools and techniques including repository &
framework, making changes to organisation culture, on-going development
of PM practice, monitoring project portfolio
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Developing
Organisation Project Management Competency
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Organisation
PM maturity components, Project Governance, Organisation culture
including learning, implementing suitable organisation
model for managing projects
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Managing
Strategic Initiatives
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Provide
a Framework for Portfolio Management and Program Management that links
Projects to Business strategy, Project selection and monitoring, Portfolio
and Program Management tools & techniques including implementation
issues.
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Business
Process Innovation
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Using
business process design and change to innovate the approach to business.
Topics include background to processes, process architecture, templates
and techniques for developing processes, implementing processes, practice
workshops
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Business
Ethics and Policies
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What
are ethics in business and how do they relate to the organisation, key policies
for the organisation, behaviours and professionalism in the workplace,
business etiquette, cultural sensitivities and working with different
cultures.
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Knowledge
Management
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How
to leverage knowledge within multi-location organisations. Topics
include explicit and tacit knowledge; intellectual property (IP);
knowledge as networks; communities of practice; information repositories
and systems; sponsorship and rewards, and how knowledge management is
evolving in the 21st century
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