Executive level programmes
If you are actively managing challenging business transformations or major project developments and wish to develop your professional value, then these part-time programmes are for you.
The programmes are taught by professionals, for professionals and are run in partnership with CITI, a leading commercial provider of advanced project and change management development and support.
Analysis and reflective learning, based around real projects in the workplace, are key factors in these unique programmes.
The programmes are constructed to create a lasting impact on the knowledge, skill levels and approach of project and change managers, by challenging their beliefs and behaviours in the execution of major business initiatives.
Learners become authoritative and expert practitioners, who base decisions and judgments on evidence derived from reliable sources and practical experiences, interpreted through critical reflection.
MSc Managing Organisational Change
The aim of the MSc Managing Organisational Change is to develop professional project and programme managers, qualified to manage the most complex business transformation programmes and expert in the politics and processes of change environments. This programme teaches a systemic approach to the application of change management which addresses, in detail, both the delivery and the adoption sides of change. It includes demonstrated best practice to develop change and support delivery, and creates experts who can lead successful organisational transformation projects.
MSc Managing Major Projects
The aim of the MSc Managing Major Projects is to develop professional project and programme managers skilled enough to run product developments that typically involve large stakeholder groups, high public visibility, environmental and societal impacts, and the need to manage third-party suppliers. This rigorous programme is based on key project management disciplines which are needed to ensure that large projects can be initiated and completed, delivering fit-for-purpose products against an agreed and credible time and cost envelope. Both programmes address sub-optimal achievement in the construction of major sets of deliverables, and analyses the common concerns which include business justification, large benefit and cost risks and major stakeholder engagement (often with a significant political component).
PgCert Delivering Organisational Change
The programme is designed to provide practitioners with the knowledge, skills and insights to successfully run major change projects. The programme contains a mixture of academic and practical elements and, through its modular structure, enables students to take highly practical techniques and tools back into their workplace.
The PgCert can be studied independently or can be used as a bridge to further learning at MSc level.
Relevance
Emphasis is placed on topics that are critical to the success of transformational change initiatives and major product delivery, managed using projects and programmes. The subject areas that make up the programmes have been identified through applied research and consultancy services carried out by CITI, the National Centre for Project Management and other expert bodies.
Since 1989, CITI has profiled over 14,000 programme and project managers and reviewed well over 1,000 programmes and projects, carried out in government organisations, multinationals, engineering, IT, financial services and utilities.
The findings from this applied research have helped shape the programmes to be highly practical, developing high performance behaviours and focused on delivering value from the first module.
Subject areas include:
Business context
- Business strategy
- Translating business vision to reality
- Business change management
- Benefits management
- Business risk
- Strategic supply chain management
People
- Leadership and motivation
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Boundary management
- Working with teams
- Managing virtual teams
- Profiles of successful programme and project managers
Business change
- Value systems
- Assessing readiness for change
- Change dynamics
- Modelling business change
- System dynamics
- Business change frameworks
- Design and delivery management
- Requirements management
- Issue management
- Problem solving and decision making
The 3Ps – portfolios, programmes and projects
- Success factors
- Portfolio structuring and risk diversification
- Programme governance
- Project governance
- Enterprise PMOs
- Programme and project assurance
- Major and mega projects and specific societal repercussions
Commercial
- Building benefits and business cases
- Funding major initiatives
- Tender process
- Contract management
Disciplines
- Defining the mission
- Programme planning
- Project planning
- Command and control
- Visibility
- Benefit impact product mapping
- Sizing and estimating
- Baselining and managing changes
- Earned value management
- Budgeting and cost management
- Risk management
Structure
Approach to learning
We provide a springboard for personal and professional development and career progression and have designed our programmes to enable those in full-time employment to study.
Our programmes are part-time and feature block-release on-campus sessions combined with a blend of other study methods supported through our virtual learning environment. There are no exams.
Students are expected to acquire and develop the ability to:
- Identify and analyse differing perceptions of complicated and complex situations
- Accept complexity and uncertainty, and act effectively under these conditions
- Critically review their personal performance in discharging their responsibilities
- Apply appropriate tools and techniques to achieve the outcomes required of them
- Transfer strategies, policies and techniques from other domains successfully into their change, project and programme context, where they offer insights and solutions to difficult problems
- Network with their peers and other managers to broaden their understanding and value
- Coach and 'bring on' colleagues and potential change, project and programme managers.
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