Live Webinar July 16th, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs need a risk management plan to guide their investments in artificial intelligence (AI).

CIOs should compare the business value of AI opportunities, their willingness to accept risks, and the cost to manage AI risk to acceptable levels.

In this webinar, Paul E. Proctor, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, answers the most pressing questions on balancing risk with AI initiatives.

Discussion Topics:

• How to prioritize AI investments
• How to assess the risk of AI projects
• How to assess the business value of AI projects

Click to register for:
Managing The Risk Of Artificial Intelligence Investments

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Online Webinar  – Recorded May 22nd 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in Jules Verne’s novel, “Around the World in 80 Days,” and proves that the project management process works in a voyage to beat all other voyages!

In this webinar with Chris Greco (LinkedIn profile) listen to how Phileas used the project management processes that we use every day to navigate various (and dangerous) risks in order to get what he thought would be the greatest reward –  a successful trip around the world.

However, at the end, there is a snag, and it looks like he doesn’t make it! The project team seems to have an answer. But, is it good enough? No spoilers here – just good project management work

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

Click to register for:
Phileas Fogg: The Around The World Project Manager

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar – May 16th 2019 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 16th 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

As a project manager accountable for selecting suppliers, imagine a world where clients share data on supplier performance, on their adherence to schedule and cost, compensation events and volume of costed change requests.

This data enables insights into how the supplier relationship is likely to evolve, and the likelihood of project success.

Data analytics is used to predict who is going to compete for a contract and whether there will be an outright front runner. By changing the evaluation rules, you can level the playing field and encourage greater competition.

Then, as a bidder, imagine a world where an organisation can reliably predict their win probability before they bid for work. A capability that scrapes the internet for opportunities; identifies competitors and their strengths and weaknesses; and ranks the opportunities based upon the greatest probability of win … it begins to reshape how organisations bid for work.

It sounds like something from the Minority Report,
But these capabilities are with us today.

BUT Is This Approach Defensible?

It is fraught with legal and ethical risks which may, in themselves, cause significant delay to your project as well as reputational damage to your organisation.

Savvy bidders will attempt to game the system defeating the object of identifying the best value provider. It may ultimately lead to over-reliance on a few or one supplier. But it could also save organisations a lot of unnecessary expense and focus on those bids they know they have a good chance of winning.

Within this talk, Martin will walk us through the art of the possible, with its potential to transform procurement and bid management, and also explore the wide range of issues that must be very carefully managed, before you choose to implement it … or should we say, if you choose to implement it.

Webinar Objectives & What You Will Get Out Of It

• An appreciation of the art of the possible and how AI may shape the future of procurement, for bidders and clients alike.
• An overview of the risks and issues and how they may affect potential roll out.
• Sufficient understanding to enable you to develop a strategy on how to engage with it or consciously decide not to.
• An appreciation of how it may impact your career.

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Overview
   a. Introduction to AI and Project Data Analytics
   b. Potential use cases
   c. Sources of data
   d. Examples of how this could be applied today
3. The opportunity
   a. How we may be able to deploy it
   b. Potential roadmaps
4. The challenges and risks including:
   a. Collusion and gaming the system
   b. Creating black lists
   c. Unfairly discriminating against suppliers with recent problem projects
   d. Progressive over-reliance on a few or one supplier
   e. Using legacy data to shape procurement decisions
   f. The ‘computer says …’ syndrome : black box algorithms can lack transparency
5. Impact on the career of procurement professionals
6. Q&A

Presenter:  Martin Paver (LinkedIn profile) BEng(Hons) MBA CEng MIMechE MAPM RPP has 25+ years’ experience in a wide range of strategy, project, programme and portfolio management roles, spanning the delivery of cutting edge research through to leading a $billion infrastructure programme. Martin has worked in the defence, nuclear, transport and energy sectors, and has a deep understanding of the organisational imperative to leverage the experiences of the past to transform future delivery. Martin established the London Project Data and Analytics Meetup,&  identified and collated over 15,000 P3M lessons.

Click to register for:
Data Analytics In Procurement:
New Opportunity Or Pandora’s Box Of Risk?

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar April 16th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

There is little doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform business and IT, but there will not be just one transformation.

AI is not a product, service or technology. AI is most simply a category of capabilities. But this “category of capabilities” has the potential to enhance, advance, transform and disrupt.

Join this complimentary webinar for a look at the current state of IT spending around the world. John-David Lovelock, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP,  Bryan Britz (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Chief Of Research, & Rajesh Kandaswamy (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Chief Of Research; as they look at how Q1 spending impacts the many aspects of AI and its power to enhance and create, as well as its marketing challenges.

Discussion Topics:

• Where to use AI to enhance a product or service
• When to build AI as a product or service
• How to sell AI as an enhancement, a product or a service

Click to register for:
IT Spending Forecast, 1Q19 Update:
AI – Use It, Build It Or Sell It

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar April 17th, 2019 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

• How client’s can document their Supply Chain: For example, any procurement and supply team that does not have a good understanding of its supply chain, will be unable to identify , mitigate and avoid risk.  This is a major concern for the organization.
• Understand Impact, and Lineage Analysis: Allows an organization to visualize, walk-through and audit the steps in a client’s supply chain.
• Socialization and Communication. The business can now validate the steps and the documented supply chain then becomes a record of what needs to be done, for normal business operations or should abnormal events occur.

Presenters:

Jog Raj, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consultant Sandhill Consultants
With 20+ years experience Jog Raj is has been an Enterprise Architecture  Business Process consultantin a variety of roles and responsibilities. Jog has developed a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience; having previously worked on the development of solutions and methodologies around EA/BP as well as delivering consultancy in client facing engagements.

Jeffrey Giles, (LinkedIn profile) Principal Architect Sandhill Consultants has 15+ years experience in Information Technology and is recognized as a Sr Data Management Professional. Jeffrey has been a guest lecturer on Enterprise Architecture at the Boston University School of Management. Jeffrey’s  experience is in customizing Enterprise Architecture frameworks, creating model driven (conceptual, logical, & physical levels) solutions & architectures, business intelligence projects, workflows, and UML application modeling.

Click to register for:
Understanding Your Supply Chain Process

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar April 17th, 2019 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) toward SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

Click to register for:
The Triple A Threat To Productivity: Anxiety, Anger, & Aggression
In The Workplace

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.