Overview
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Learn core strategic and business management skills that can help to bolster your business acumen. Discover how to align your projects with the larger purpose of your organization.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Building your business acumen as a project manager
- The Talent Triangle in project management
- The role of projects in your business strategy
- Strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of projects
- Define your strategic project goals
- Define the benefits of your project for stakeholders
- Define the risks of your project
- Define the sustainability of your project
- Process improvement methods in project management
- Align your project scope, schedule, and budget
- Prioritizing the customer for business acumen
- Insights on marketing and sales for project managers
- Insights on procurement, operations, and logistics for PMs
- Insights on supply chain management for PMs
- Insights on human resources for project managers
- Insights on safety and physical security for PMs
- Insights on information technology for PMs
- Insights on finance and accounting documents for PMs
- Insights on finance and accounting calculations for PMs
- Leverage your business acumen for project success
