Education and Training Services -

Executive, Management and Professional Briefings, Seminars and Tutorials

Our education and training programs blend concepts with business pragmatism, reality and current and emerging best practices. Each program is designed around live instruction from seasoned experts utilizing lectures, case studies and interactive exercises. Each program may be customized for a specific audience, experience, skill level and duration. All programs are results oriented, fun, and actionable.

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·  Winning Program and Project Management - A Framework for Project Initiation, Planning, Executing and Controlling Strategic Enterprise Initiatives and Limited Scope Programs and Projects.  It covers the life cycle of a project from a business/IT plans through portfolio management (selection, funding and prioritization), project management, execution and governance.  It focuses on completing projects on-time, within-budget, within scope, with high quality and to the customer's satisfaction and intergrates current and merging industry best practices.

·  IT Governance - An Intergrated Approach for Planning, Deployment, and Sustainability covers a framework and roadmap to plan and implement and sustain an IT governance process to improve management effectiveness, profitabitliy and compliance. 

·  Winning Marketing and Innovation Strategies to Retain and Grow Revenues and Customers includes Market and Planning, New Product Development, Interactive and e-marketing, Market Segmentation, Customer Service, Competitive Analysis, Positioning, Customer Relationship Management, Distribution Channels, Marketing Metrics, Competencies and Skills, Branding and e-marketing, Customer service, etc.

·  New Product Management , Innovation and Commercialization covers the essential issues, concepts, principles, practices processes, life cycle and techniques for managing (e.g. ideation, initiating, feasibility, planning and executing and commercializtion) new product and service development, launch and post launch lifecycle mgt.

·  Sucessful Outsourcing for Information Technology - covers the key principles and practices of successful domestic and off shore outsourcing including RFP preparation, vendor selection, vendor mangement, monitoring and metrics, escalation, disengagement, back up and revcovery. 

·    Electronic (Web) Commerce - From Successful Planning to Execution of Selling (Customers), Buying (Supply Side) and Operational (Inside) Strategies and Actions (including technology infrastructure, applications and processes, economics, management issues and strategies, outsourcing, etc.)

·    Leadership, Innovation and the Management of Change - covers world class leadership styles and critical components of innovation and the management of change. It analyzes successful organizational environments (case studies) that reward creativity, innovation, diversity, change and passion on a sustainable basis. 

·  Achieving Strategic Competitive Advantages through Business/Information Technology Alignment, Planning and Governance while Reducing/Containing the Total Costs of Operations (TCO) - recognizes and covers the use and application of information technology as a strategic competitive weapon to sustain growth, align business and IT more closely, measure IT contributions while managing the TCO more effectively.