Projektų valdymas ir inovacijos

About module 

ISM Innovation and Project Management module - comprehensively examines all levels of the organization's project activities in order to increase the organization's innovative capabilities through the improvement of project competences:  

• strategic, which is aimed at connecting project activities with strategy, in order to achieve the long-term goals of the organization and the implementation of innovations; 
• organizational, which aims to use the organization's resources more efficiently, unifying and standardizing innovation and project activities and creating means to support them; 
• operational, whose main goal is to ensure the creation of quality innovations and project results on time and within the budget. 

The unique content of the module is based on a modern approach to project management processes and their improvement in accordance with the strategic goals of organizations, and its structure is focused on the gradual development of participants' knowledge and abilities, studying scientific publications, performing group tasks and presenting their results, discussing and critically evaluating the work results of colleagues, and also in the preparation of research work - a consulting project aimed at improving the project activities of specific organizations.  

What will you learn? 

After completing the module:  

• You will be able to perform analysis of project management processes and objectively assess the capabilities of organizations' project activities.
• You will learn to identify priority directions for improvement and combine them with the organization's strategy. 
• You will know how to plan and implement improvement actions more constructively.
• You will more easily defend and more smoothly implement changes in project activities based on theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
• You will better understand the opportunities and challenges of agile project management in innovative projects

Main topics of the module:

• The relationship between innovation and project management processes. International project management standards and project management competence certification systems
• Process management maturity models. Relationships between organizational innovation and project management maturity
• The role of the project team leader. Leadership functions. What can and should the project manager do to increase motivation and engagement?
• Operational project management
• Program management
• Organizational change model and change implementation
• Mega projects
• Transition from the second to the third level of maturity. Project Management Office (PMO)
• Project portfolio management
• Organizational project management model
• Agile project management. Challenges of implementing flexible project management in large organizations
• Critical chain project management. Uncertainties in projects and their management with buffers
• Project pipeline management