Top 10 Tips for Writing a Business Case

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) Course No: BA0033
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About This Webinar
In the early phases of an initiative, before there is a project, the concepts phase requires justification. This justification is accomplished through the creation of a business case. This course provides an overview of the Business Case. As an attendee you will get the top ten tips that will make your business case outstanding. These tips will be used to get senior management approval to proceed with the project.

Benefits
As a participant, you will learn when to develop a business case. You will also learn the major components of a business case and how to make your business case clear and interesting to ensure the approval. You will learn the top ten tips that are secrets to developing a compelling business case.

What You Will Learn
In this one-hour session, you will learn:

• Definition of Business Case
• How to explain the Business Case Process
• How to define the Initial Justification to Build Business Case
• What to include in a Business Case
• Techniques on How to Get Your Business Case Approved

George Bridges (PMP) is a Senior Consultant and trainer for IIL. George specializes in project management, risk management, information technology, and business process analysis. With more than 30 years of experience, George has successfully applied project management, systems research, and operations research for major corporations and non-profit organizations. George is Past President of the PMI Great Lakes Chapter.

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A Methodical Approach to Costs & Benefits
In The Business Case

Online Webinar
Global Knowledge (REP 1999) Activity Number WBNR0048
Duration: 15 minutes 0.25 PDU / 0.25 CDU Credits: 0.25 PDU Category A – Free PDU

A Business Case is an important tool for persuading management to approve your projects. The business case document provides the justification for the project and outline the solutions they will deliver based upon the business needs.

This seminar focuses on two sections of the business case: costs and benefits analysis and the cash flow financial metrics. Learn a methodical approach to these sections to enhance the effectiveness of your next business case.

Seminar Highlights

• The Business Case
• Common Mistakes
• The Solution
• Examining Costs
• Examining Benefits
• The Cash Flow Statement
• Full vs. Incremental Cash Flows
• The Best Chances for Success

Jim Swanson, PMP delivers consulting, coaching, instruction, mentoring training and course development specializing in project management and business analysis. Jim is an instructor and consultant for Global Knowledge and is a Certified Project Manager and Managing Principal for JR Swanson Project Services.

Prior to teachingfor Global Knowledge, Jim worked 25 years for Hewlett-Packard as a business systems developer, technical product support, and senior project manager.Prior to HP, Jim worked as a Geologist for the US Geological Survey.

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Live Webinar July 10th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

As the pace of change accelerates around our businesses, we’re under incredible pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive, even when we don’t know who they are or where they might be.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• Stories of serendipity in action
• 8 key elements of planned serendipity
• How to introduce serendipity into your business
• And more…

Speaker: Lane Becker, (LinkedIn profile) Author of Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

Discover how the world’s most admired businesses have applied serendipity to guarantee success in their businesses, over and over again.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Online Webinar (originally aired on June 26, 2012)
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Microsoft SharePoint is the perfect solution for collaborative project management.

Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 has a feature set that can be used to mimic the project management structure required for projects of various types and sizes in any organization. It even has the ability to sync with Microsoft Project. However, for many organizations that don’t know SharePoint very well, it can be challenging trying to manage one or more projects using the base platform.

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile)CEO Brightwork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Online Webinar (original broadcast June 22 2011)
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

If you haven’t discovered the concept of Servant Leadership you are not alone. The modern servant leadership movement was launched by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader”, and although this management style has been around for years the concepts and underlying philosophies were often practiced in ‘Faith Based’ businesses and organizations. But this is now changing ……

Companies that have adopted the principles of Servant Leadership (sometimes known as the New Golden Rule). Companies are quickly discovering that the philosophies, if honestly adopted:

• Create intensely positive supportive relationships,
• Fiercely loyal employee employer relationships,
• Intensified productivity,
• Sustainable growth and
• Higher profits.

Join Ken and Colleen for this informative session on a new way to create success in your organization!

Discover a Different Way to Create Success

Servant leadership requires acknowledging people, backing people up and treating people as business partners—in short, “leading with love.” It is not soft management; it’s smart management.

When leaders focus on positive relationships in addition to profits, they end up with an abundance of both.

Join business guru Ken Blanchard and Southwest Airlines president emeritus Colleen Barrett as they explore the keys to creating an organizational culture that achieves and sustains high performance.

During this program you’ll hear about the leadership secrets that have propelled Southwest Airlines and other great companies to unparalleled success.

What You Will Learn:

Drawing from their new book, Lead with LUV, these two legendary leaders will explain what this all means, why it works and how it can help you achieve unprecedented business performance:

• What “leading with love” looks like within an organizational context
• How to build the right vision and help your people succeed in the long term

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

The Presenters:
Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager® , coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Colleen Barrett is president emeritus of Southwest Airlines Company.She was a member of the company’s Executive Planning Committee andchaired numerous special teams, task forces, and committees relating to internal and external Southwest customers. She now serves on theBoard of Trusteesof theKen Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University, the Becker College Board of Trustees, and the JC Penney Company, board of Directors.Barret is coauthor of Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (192 pages Earn up to 7 PDUs)

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Servant Leadership: Creating Culture and Sustaining Performance

Earn More Category C PDUs
(Professional Development Units)
by Reading these great Books

The Documentation details above for Category C PDUs apply.

• Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert K. Greenleaf the developer of the Servant Leader Concept – 370 Pages Earn up to 15 PDUs
• Servant Leader by Ken Blanchard – 128 Pages Earn up to 5 PDUs
• The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader by James C. Hunter – 224 Pages Earn up to 9 PDUs
• The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter – 187 Pages Earn up to 7 PDUs
• Ken Blanchards – The One Minute Manager Book Series 16 different titles including The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: New and Revised Edition – 128 Pages Earn up to 5 PDUs