Live Webinar 2 Offerings
January 30th, 2013 10:00 am – 10:30 am EST
January 30th, 2013 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

With the start of a New Year many organizations adjust their missions and plan to make changes to improve overall performance results over the next 12 months. However, when looking at making adjustments to their scorecards, it can be challenging to know what to keep, what to change, and where to begin making those changes.

What You’ll Learn in this Webinar:

• Understanding the fundamental reasons scorecards are used
• Defining and overcoming the challenges leaders face when making changes to their scorecards
• Tools and scorecard processes leaders can implement to improve bottom line performance

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups:Executing

Knowledge Areas:4- Integration 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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’

Click to register for the January 30th, 2012 10:00 am session of Business Scorecard Best Practices for a Successful 2013

Click to register for the January 30th, 2012 1:00 pm session of Business Scorecard Best Practices for a Successful 2013

Live Webinar – January 31, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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’

Click to register for Project Portfolio Management Simplified

Live Webinar January 31st, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1265
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Did you know that the PMBOK® Guide calls for the use of a methodology in order to focus on the key project management elements that are needed for your projects?

PRINCE2® is a highly respected and proven project management methodology that will add value to a solid base of PMBOK® Guide education, and provide a substantial foundation to those looking to raise their project management or capability maturity levels.

During this webinar, you will learn:

• The key elements of PRINCE2®
• How PRINCE2® compares to the PMBOK® Guide
• How the strengths of PRINCE2® and the PMBOK® Guide can complement and reinforce each other, resulting in more successful projects

About the Presenter: Jay Siegelaub, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, MBA and Instructor for Corporate Education Group, has taught and consulted in PRINCE2® since 1998 and is an accredited PRINCE2® instructor. In addition to training thousands of project managers, his responsibilities have included organizational change management and supporting clients in managing the “people” issues of business change initiatives. Jay has also authored seminal articles on project management, and regularly presents at project management conferences.

Click to register for PRINCE2®: What Is It and Why Does it Matter?

Live Webinar – January 30th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Many organizations have achieved impressive efficiency gains through process re-engineering and process improvement efforts. But relatively few organizations have achieved competitive advantage as the result of building a strategic capability for continuous improvement and innovation through Business Process Management (BPM).

In this webinar we’ll explore what’s needed to turn BPM into a sustainable source of value for your organization. Leading the discussion will be Jim Boots, author of “BPM Boots on the Ground: How to Implement Strategic Business Process Management: Lessons Learned from one of the World’s Largest Organizations”. Jim will share his in-depth experience gained from his years at Chevron, where he led the company’s global BPM initiative.

Join this webinar to:

1. Understand the key elements you need to design an effective BPM strategy
2. Identify what it means to deliver strategic value through Business Process Management
3. Discover three actions that may persuade your COO to invest in long-term BPM objectives
4. Gain access to a BPM maturity model and assessment tool from the Innovation Value Institute

Presenter: Jim Boots (LinkedIn profile) is an “expert practitioner” in process management, having developed and implemented Chevron’s Business Process Management foundation. He is also author of a new book, “BPM Boots on the Ground: How to Implement Strategic Business Process Management”, which details lessons learned from 30 years at Chevron.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders

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’

Click to register for Making Your BPM Initiative Deliver Strategic Value

Live Webinar January 29th, 2013, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or
Live Webinar January 29th, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Most companies already have resources with various types of business process improvement expertise. Few of these experts, however, have the skills needed to deal with business process optimization in an environment where complex value chains and constant process change require agile and incremental progress toward an optimal solution rather than stellar upfront planning and design.

Discussion Topics:

• The skills needed to improve performance in processes spanning one or more organizations
• How you can map those skills to roles you will need on your BPM project and program teams

Presenter: Michele Cantara, Research VP (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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’

Click to register for Critical Roles for Successful BPM Projects and Programs

Live Webinar – January 31st 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Rapid, scalable, flexible, collaborative: words that all marketers strive for to achieve real-world success in their creative process. And beyond the marketing world, business leaders everywhere are realizing that the new economic paradigm rewards speed, flexibility, and response to change.

If you’ve read The Black Swan (Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable has a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility”) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, you know how FAST economic disruptions now move through the world economy.

Some disruptions are flashes in the pan. Others bring about marketplace revolutions that none of us have the tools to entirely predict, or even catch early indicators regarding the direction they will take. In the face of this reality, marketers need to look at work values, principles, and processes that enable the nimbleness required to “catch a black swan”.

In search of practices which enable this success, creative leaders in marketing fields are looking to their brethren in another profession which is high-stakes and project-based: software development. They are finding that the foundational values (and the practices associated with them) of highly successful software development philosophies such as Agile can also be leveraged to bring speed, quality, and flexibility to processes which yield fantastic creative.

This is Agile Creativity: the fusing of the software world’s Agile values with the creative initiatives of marketing.

Learning Objectives:

In this web seminar, Aspe will discuss in detail the core values of Agile work, then look at the practices and principles being implementing to fuse marketing needs with those values. The outcome is a powerful structure for quickly bringing ideas to life, rapidly developing iterations that increase quality, and incorporating feedback and input earlier in the creative process.

Presenters: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – JT Moore (LinkedIn profile) VP of Marketing – Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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’

Click to register for Agile Creativity: A Look at how Google is Supporting the Adoption of Agile Methods into Marketing & Agency-level Creative