Improving Organizational Performance Through Knowledge Transfer
Catalyst tailors knowledge to the specific,
real-world requirements of organizations and individuals. We are
"learning centric" not "teaching centric," thus we bring a performance
focus that emphasizes results. The most effective way to achieve organizational improvement
in is working with intact project teams.
- Project and Program Management Basics
- In this popular "blocking and tackling"
course, you will learn about the fundamental principles,
processes,
and tools good of project and program management. You will learn about initiating, planning, executing,
controlling and closing a project. There is
excellent coverage of key success factors for project success, and an
overview or world class project management. Instructional methods
include exercises and discussion.
- How to Capture Customer Requirements and Develop Project
Scope
- In this course, you will learn skills for eliciting,
specifying, and validating project requirements. You will learn how to
ask good questions that uncover latent needs, ask the "three
magic questions," distinguish between good and poor
specifications, establish priorities, establishing roles and
responsibilities, and avoid the predictable pitfalls. Topics include defining
problems, modeling complete solutions, correctly specify needs,
securing agreement, and validating requirements.
- How to Assess and Manage Project Risk
- This course will teach you a step-by-step approach
for conducting a team-based risk clinic. Participants will learn how
to recognize strategic factors leading to project failure and take
appropriate corrective action.
- Executive Briefings
- Catalyst's executive briefings are geared for time-constrained
executives
and senior managers. We offer several tailored sessions including
Designing and Supporting Effective Project Organizations, Creating
Effective Sponsorship, and New Product Development Excellence.
- Rapid Project Development & Agile Project
Management
- This is an advanced course in
project planning and execution that will give you the perspective to balance speed versus
other competing demands. You will learn to recognize the enablers of
project speed,
and
secure tips to put the concepts into practice.
You will learn to isolate important performance drivers in the product
management and product development environment, so that you can select
and apply the right technique.
- Effective Project Cost Management
- This advanced course provides the
learner an integrated view of the project using techniques to define
performance outcomes and measure them
appropriately. This workshop includes description of
important factors needed to develop a project services organization,
including
creating project metrics, estimating, and pricing.
- Project Acceleration Workshop
- This is a facilitated hands-on workshop. As a
result, you will develop an
executable project plan, a realistic baseline and secure the buy in of
the project participants. This is not a
training class, although past participants have gained considerable
knowledge in project planning fundamentals and in becoming a
high-performing team.
- Competencies and Skills for Leading Project Teams
- The workshop is for anyone who needs improved tools
and application in leadership, especially as relates to project teams in
technical environments. The sessions include "teams and
leadership," "tools for project team planning," and "expanding influence
and results."
- Metrics That Drive Organizational Change
- A facilitated workshop to help organizations develop
metrics that assure improved performance.
- Basics of Project Scheduling
- The workshop objective is to help individuals construct accurate
time schedules (e.g., Gantt Charts). We emphasize
a strong learning, developmental application of the techniques to real
projects. Many of our manufacturing firm clients have used this
approach to provide simple, essential tools to accelerate their
six-sigma and other quality improvement initiatives.
- New Product Development: Best Practices, Strategies, and
Competencies
- This seminar will
provide you the opportunity to validate your existing NPD process and
strategy, while finding opportunities for improvement. Takeaways
include: a list of 40 generally-accepted principles of NPD, the
business case for fast time-to-market, benchmarking and self
assessment.
- Metrics That Matter in New Product Development
- This workshop is a highly interactive approach to
developing company specific metrics for NPD.
We also offer public
courses (click here for schedule).
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