Managing projects in a cost effective and timely manner is one of the most challenging tasks in any organization. Competent project leadership requires understanding of how to allocate financial, material and time-based resources, and the ability to motivate and maintain focus of the project team. This course provides relevant project management skills by examining project decisions at three levels: (i) structuring and managing the task and leading the project team in an individual project, (ii) aggregate linkages across a portfolio of projects and management of programs, (iii) alliances across firms, project contracting and managing open innovation. It introduces tools and concepts that enable project managers to evaluate, manage and execute critical functions of any project while ensuring speed, efficiency and market impact. Prerequisite: Operations Management.
