Live Webinar – Jan 8th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Enterprise Business Architecture is Quickly Evolving
Into a Mainstream Business Capability

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide clear, rational reasons to do business Architecture.
2. Present a foundational set of Business Architecture Models, views and uses to mitigate project and analysis risk, drive the value proposition
3. Recommend a staged Execution Model

Some would argue that it is already there particularly when 50% of the world’s top performing organizations have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator ranging from Government, Telco’s, Manufacturing and Financial Institutions.

However …. There continues to be a large population of change executives, managers and resources who regard Business Architecture as a theoretical practice.

Strategic change initiatives proliferate in business today. The speed and rate of change demands we maintain holistic oversight of all the moving parts to ensure realization of target operating models and designs. Historically only a few strategic programs would be at play.

In the last decade this number has grown to include on-shoring/off-shoring, centralization, spans of control, business transformation, vendor outsourcing, modernization, mergers/acquisitions, channel optimization, client segmentation, journeys and experience.

To facilitate strategic alignment and execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture.

Beyond Theory will focus on what are the market and internal forces at work which have been driving and will continue to drive organizations to use the models to better understand business impact, scope, execution and benefits realization.

The discussion will address the deployment and adoption challenges and look at industry standards and Blueprinting for strategic opportunities.

It will provide a foundational knowledge of the business architecture framework and model types to crystalize scope, identify stakeholders, manage risk and how early analysis, through the lens of the business architecture, will influence estimating, resourcing, time, cost and quality.

Business Architecture is the link between
Strategy & Execution.

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD 1 PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Project Closure is not only required activity,
BUT …
Is also a valuable activity required of every successful project.

Whether the project team is ending a project meeting, completing a project phase or coming to the end of the project – closing activities are critical to the organization and all future project efforts.

Developing skills in project closure techniques helps maintain project successes and energy as well as provide learnings on all other project efforts.

Solutions Cube Group’s Webinars address many relevant project issues.

Learn how to record lessons learned even when a project is being cancelled versus when the project was successfully implemented, to improve work on all future project efforts.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• End of each project meeting with clarity and capitalizing on momentum and alignment gained during the meeting
• Structure a Lessons Learned activity as a tool to leverage successes and avoid repeating mistakes as the project moves between phases
• Get a head start on the next project by archiving and reusing valuable project deliverables form the current effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar January 8th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)

Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

What Managers Do—and Can Do Better

Managing is important for anyone affected by its practice, which means not just managers, but everyone. We all need to understand it better, in order that it be practiced better.

In this program, Henry Mintzberg explores the characteristics, contents, and varieties of managers, as well as the conundrums they face and how they become effective.

These insights are based upon his observations of 29 different managers, from business, government, and nonprofits, working in diverse settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra.

What he saw led him to develop a new model of management, one firmly grounded in his conclusion that management is not a profession or a science. As he writes, “It is a practice, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.”

Mintzberg will offer a compelling discussion of some of the inescapable conundrums of managing:

• Why most organizations are overled and undermanaged
• Is social media, email, the Internet, etc., helping or hindering managers from doing their jobs?
• A framework of managerial effectiveness that includes five “managerial mindsets”

Presenter: Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, at McGill University in Montreal. Mintzberg is perhaps best known for his work on organizational forms—identifying five types of organization: simple structure; machine bureaucracy; professional bureaucracy; the divisionalized form; and the adhocracy.

He is also credited with advancing the idea of emergent strategy—the idea that effective strategy emerges from conversations within an organization rather than being imposed from on high. Henry is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and l’Ordre national du Quebec.

Henry Mintzberg is the author or coauthor of 15 books, including:

• Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
• Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management
• The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, and Managing
• And his latest book is Management? it’s Not What You Think!

For more information on his activities, visit www.mintzberg.org

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

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’

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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’

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 8th, 2013
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International Topic: IT Governance

Note: Webinar is presented in the Dutch Language (Nederlands)

Veel organisaties werken met COBIT® 4.1 om meer waarde van hun IT-investeringen te krijgen, tegen afgewogen risiconiveaus. In 2012 is de nieuwste versie van COBIT 5 gelanceerd, met nogal wat aanpassingen.

COBIT 5 richt zich nu ook op IT management en doet assessments volgens ISO/IEC 15504. In dit webinar zal een korte introductie gegeven worden tot COBIT 5: Wat is de waarde van deze nieuwe versie voor organisaties en individuen die met COBIT 4.1 werken?

Nog nauwelijks ervaring met COBIT? Geen probleem, ook dan geeft dit webinar u een waardevolle algemene introductie tot COBIT 5!

Het webinar zal gepresenteerd worden door Marcel Foederer (LinkedIn profiel), geaccrediteerd COBIT 5, ITIL® en PRINCE2® trainer bij ITpreneurs.

Klicken Sie hier um zu registrieren COBIT 5: Was ist drin für Sie?