Date: Saturday, August 16, 2014
Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Global Knowledge Training Center, 600 Galleria Parkway SE, Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30339
Earn 5 PDUs!
There is no such thing as a “moral victory” in the project management environment. To be sure, every project stakeholder should gain key lessons learned from every endeavor, yet – in the end – we must invariably deliver the product, service, or result expected from the project.
Entrepreneurship, like project management, is more than just coming up with creative ideas or simply implementing a project. It is about innovation. Innovation is a combination of invention and commercialization. In other words, a great invention is just an idea if you cannot bring it to market. In the project management world, a concept or a charter (invention) is merely an idea until it is implemented as expected while meeting real-world needs (commercialization).
In “Project Entrepreneurship: Incorporating Innovative Strategies into Projects”, participants will gain insight into how the principles of entrepreneurship can be used to improve project delivery.
Topics covered in this forward-thinking seminar include:
• Alignment of Entrepreneurship and Effective Project Management
• Market Identification and Project Stakeholder Assessment
• Reality of the Business Case; To Continue or Not Continue
• Creative Thought Processes in a Project Environment
• Key Pitfalls and Considerations of New Ventures and Projects
Course objectives:
• To learn methods for incorporating the entrepreneur mindset into the project environment
• To employ steps that help better segment your key stakeholder market
• To identify items that must be considered when developing a project business case
• To incorporate “think outside the box” thought into the project environment
Who should attend:
This seminar is for anyone who wants to bring creative thought into their project leadership activities.
Earn: 5 PDUs!
Instructor: Chris Wright, CPLP®, MPM, PMP®
Instructor Bio.
Chris is Founder, President, and Managing Principal of TANDEN, a human and organizational performance optimization firm based in Raleigh, NC. TANDEN is in the business of helping organizations successfully reach their desired project delivery goals and maximizing efficiencies through relevant and targeted adult learning programs.
TANDEN provides learning and development, project management and leadership consulting services designed to bolster the skills and aptitudes of the organization’s human capital – its team members.
At TANDEN, Mr. Wright has worked with organizations in a multitude of industries including: Health/Hospital Care, Crop Science, Financial Services, Department of Defense, Consumer Retail, Food and Beverage, Consumer Food and Beverage Products, City and State Governments, Higher Education, Wireless Telecommunications, and Information Technology.
Prior to TANDEN, Chris worked as a Senior Program and Project Manager in the wireless telecommunications industry leading cutting edge wireless data/Internet projects.
Chris has a Master’s degree in Project Management (MPM) from Western Carolina University and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics and Spanish from Georgia Southern University. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the Project Management Institute (PMI®) where he served as the Vice President of Education for the North Carolina chapter of PMI (NCPMI). Mr. Wright has also been certified by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) as an Instructional Practitioner (formerly known as Professionally Qualified, or PQ) through its Bridge Program.
Chris serves as a Board Member and Event Director for a Raleigh-based charitable organization, The Bald Entrepreneurs. In the past six years, The Bald Entrepreneurs has raised over $450,000 for childhood cancer research. In his spare time, Mr. Wright is a baseball coach, writes about historical ironies, and also enjoys the great outdoors.
Registration Fee:
$ 130 --- PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate)
$ 175 --- Non-member (standard rate)
Please note that walk-ins on the same day as class are not allowed. Registration must be completed on-line in advance of RSVP date provided in course description.
* If you have questions about this class please contact Angelique Dumas Edwards at minisemchair@pmiatlanta.org. If there is an urgent request, please phone (470) 315-1179, (voicemail only, but your call will be returned within 2 business days).