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ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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THIS COURSE IS AIMED AT: |
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Project managers/engineers; business owners; project leaders/administrators;
line managers; accountants; consulting engineers; quantity surveyors;
architects; data processing managers and other managers who are involved either
directly or indirectly with the management of projects. |
Module
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CORPORATE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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four-month course dates
MAR - JUN 2024 (4 months) |
MODULE 2
CORPORATE STRATEGY
JUL - SEP 2024 (3 months) |
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- The effectiveness of project management maturity
- International project management
- Planning for excellence
- Project organizational structures
- Project staffing policies, procedures and problems
- Project management functions
- Inter-personal skills for project managers
- Variables for project success
- Working with executives (the project sponsor)
- Project planning, procedures and documentation
- Cost monitoring and control
- PERT/CPM and precedence networks
- Pricing and estimating
- Project tradeoff analysis
Four-hour written closed-book
examination
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- Linking corporate strategy to project management
- Important strategy-making tasks
- Industry and competitive analysis
- Corporate situational analysis
- Strategic and competitive advantage
- Matching strategy to the situation
- Corporate diversification strategies
- Implementation strategies
- Problems encountered during implementation
Four-hour
written open-book examination
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MODULE 3
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
OCT - DEC 2024 (3 months) |
MODULE 4
THE FINANCING OF PROJECTS
JAN - APR 2025 (4 months) |
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- Organizational behaviour and project management
- Managing individual and group effectiveness
- Individual behaviour within the organization
- Motivational content and process theories
- Inter-group and intra-group behaviour
- Leadership theories, models and applications
- The impact of organizational design on performance
- Organizational power and politics
- Communication processes
- Developing organizational effectiveness
Four-hour written open-book
examination
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- Methodologies used to finance projects
- Interpreting and analysing financial statements
- The time value of money
- Expected risk and return
- Capital budgeting
- Risk analysis
- Working capital management
- The cost of capital
- Leasing policies and procedures
- Financial planning and control
Four-hour written open-book
examination
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MODULE 5
DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEMS
MAY - JUL 2025 (3 months) |
MODULE 6
PROJECT NEGOTIATIONS
AUG - OCT 2025 (3 months) |
- Decision - support systems used in project management
- The relationship between effective decision-making and project tradeoff
- Developing and using linear programming models (including graphical and Simplex methods)
- Transportation and assignment models
- Goal programming models
- Decision theory
- Queuing models
- Simulation models
Four-hour written open-book
examination
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- National and international negotiating strategies
- Preparing and planning for negotiations
- Understanding inter-cultural negotiations
- Dealing with labour unions
- Crisis bargaining
- Important negotiating phases
- The concept of framing and common ground
- Persuasive communicating techniques
- The effect of body language on perception and reaction
- The role of personality and needs
- Handling conflict and aggression
Four-hour written open-book examination
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