How to balance project opportunities with time, capability, and
budget for overall profitability
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| Summary of
Key Benefits
By participating in this substantive program, you will learn
- How to make profitable resource
management decisions – how to go from "one-shot
rationalizations" to ongoing optimization
- Who should be accountable for
what; senior management’s role and the role of functional
management in project-based environments
- How to match your resource
management approach to your organization’s unique culture
and strategy as well as to marketplace volatility, rate of
technology change and so on -- why no single approach is
right for every situation
- How to balance resource capacity
with demand; when (and how) to shift resources to new
initiatives
- How to load the pipeline
(funnel-shaped, tunnel-shaped or otherwise), when to kill or
continue projects, and how to see the bigger portfolio
picture
- What factors you must consider
before deploying resources – short-term vs. long-term
impact, high or low risk, technology capability, etc. – to
avoid later delays, missteps, and burnt-out staff
- What to do when you don’t "own"
all your resources; how to plan for gaps and shortfalls
- Similarly, what to do if your
staff is split between 5 projects and you need to negotiate
with 4 other managers
- Whether and how to apply Theory
of Constraints’ 5 Focusing Steps to create speed,
sustainable throughput, and profit – can you roll out TOC in
stages or is it all-or-nothing? Can it work in conjunction
with other initiatives?
- How Lean Resource Management and
value stream mapping can help you gain 60% more from your
critical resources than conventional resource management –
and what else must be in place to achieve lasting results
- How to make project selection
and resource allocation decisions spanning across multiple
business units and continents. What trade-off decisions are
necessary? How are priorities set and communicated?
- The pros and cons of various
leading-edge software tools and homegrown intranet –based
solutions. More importantly, what data should be captured
and conveyed? How do you get the right information to people
soon enough to make better decisions?
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