Day One: Identifying Development Opportunities
- Project definition, selection, focus and concentration of effort
- Aligning projects with main strategic programmes
- Contemporary best practice guidelines in project management
- Evaluating and establishing priorities to achieve agreed goals
- Project planning and agreeing the review processes
- Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Two: Project Definition, Management and Control
- Effective project definition techniques
- Setting project scope and terms of reference
- Internal and external negotiation and agreement
- Project execution – including collaboration and outsourcing
- Keeping projects under effective control
- Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Three: Leadership that Delivers Results
- Team leadership, review, adjustment and control
- Leading and managing internal/external/hybrid team structures
- Creating vision, mission and values for the future
- Understanding and managing internal and external expectations
- Project leadership as a continuous development process
- Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Four: Entrepreneurship in Business Development
- Building an entrepreneurial culture in your teams
- Team-based models of business development
- Financial and non-financial aspects of entrepreneurial activities
- Balancing and managing risk and reward in business development
- Retaining an entrepreneurial culture as an organisation grows and matures
- Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Five: The Quest for Continuous Innovation
- Innovation – the most significant part of business development
- The difference between a sustaining and a disruptive innovation
- Balancing sustaining and disruptive innovations in business strategy
- Managing the life-cycles of products, services and strategies
- Case example or case study to synthesise the whole course
- Discussion – delegates’ plans for follow-up action