Services

Our goal is to customize a solution to your problem or dilemma in the quickest way, using the latest knowledge, based on updated research and experience. 

Solve Problems that Slow Your Organization

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Need or Problem: You feel that ideas and strategy are not implemented quick enough to enjoy the maximum value from these ideas. It may be due to different reasons such as, slow collaboration, excessive focus on technical issues, misunderstanding unique challenge of different projects, etc.

The Typical Process - Customized with You (and for You)

 

 Assessing Your Current Experience 

• Interview executives and project teams
• Assess your strategic and execution maturity level
• Understand your existing execution processes
• Assess the expertise of your project teams at different levels
• Identify gaps and variance with industry levels
• Set improvement goals with you

 

Establish an In-House Training Program for You 

• Customize a program for you at three possible levels
  • Executives, program managers
  • Project managers and team leaders
  • Team members
  • Establish certification programs as needed
• Deliver a pilot program – obtain customer feedback
• Review pilot results and plan following revisions

 

Update Your Project Planning and Execution Processes

• Together with graduates of you early training pilots we
  • Create a revised project management procedure
  • Build your Company’s Handbook of Project Management
  • Test the process on a few selected processes
• Review the updated the process performance
• Follow up on implementation as needed
• Integrate the process with Company training

 

Accelerate and Focus Your Project on Business

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The Need or Problem: You feel that technical teams and managers are mostly concerned with technical issues, which slow them down, and are less aware of the impact of their projects on the Company’s business results.

Establish The SPL Way in Your Company

• We help companies adopt The SPL Way as the common project management technique in the company.
• This process involves several steps as shown below and is taking between 6 and 24 months.
• The program involves:
  • Assessing your current strategic focus of projects
  • Building a dedicated educational program for your company needs
  • Building the Company’s strategic project management processes
  • Reviewing progress with executives and project teams

Find Smart Ways to Train Your Teams and Leaders

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Need or Problem: Your existing internal educational programs may not be coherent with your strategic directions and future needs. Your leadership development programs are often focused on the highest levels and are less directed at the team and project leadership levels.

• We will build with you a dedicated educational program based on current needs and update it periodically
• We select a collection of internal courses from our current educational programs, or develop with you dedicated courses to your Company
• If needed, we will train your internal instructors so you could continue delivering the program on your own

 

Coach Project Teams from Proposal & Concept to Delivery

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Need or Problem: Your initiation and proposal processes are often slow and disappointing. Your teams seem to have difficulties in getting projects on the right track.

 

 Conceptual and Proposal Design for a New Project

• We help the company prepare a project for justification before a commitment is made
• We also help large contracting departments (such as government) to define and prepare a project for an outside bid
• And we help bidders prepare a proposal in response to a public competitive bid

 

Coaching Project Teams from Initiation to Delivery

• We help teams to kick-off a project and define it business and execution objectives, as well as its planning policy and guidelines
• We then follow with the strategic, business, innovation, and leadership aspects to plan the project in the most effective way
• We escort the project through execution, monitoring and controlling, and up to delivery

 

Run Your Project for You (or with You)

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Need or Problem: You have an important and challenging project and you are not sure you have the right leadership for it.

• We discuss the project with your executive team and analyze its challenges
• We appoint an experiences project manager to plan and run your project for you (or with you)
• We create an initial plan and discuss the plan with you
• We provide you with our needs for running the project in a smooth way

 

Rescue a Distressed Project – Get it Back on Track

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Need or Problem: Your important project is in trouble. In spite of all efforts, the situation is getting worse. You feel you need external help.

• We assess a delayed or troubled project – identify its challenges and reasons for difficulties using our challenge analysis tools
• Device corrective plans and actions
• Escort project teams through recovery
• Follow-up periodically on progress and up to final success

 

Build Your PMO and Implement Strategic Processes

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Need or Problem: You may not have a PMO, or the one you established, it not impacting your processes. You feel there is more to a PMO than just share tools and best practices.

• We study its existing processes and PMO structure. We then provide assessment details and recommendations of how to upgrade the processes to a more business-focused approach
• We are working with company managers and teams to train them in the updated methods
• Our deliverables involve updated documentations and procedures that project teams can follow going forward.
• We come back for a review in 6 months for assessment and additional fine-tuning

  

Select the Right Portfolio and Adapt Projects to Challenge

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Need or Problem: You are not sure you are selecting the best projects for execution and struggle with allocating the appropriate resources. You feel you need to find a better way for a project selection process and for running each project according to its unique challenge.

 

Manage Your Project Portfolio

• We study your existing processes of project portfolio management
• We study the uniqueness of the company’s projects and identify typical projects to the company.
• We build a framework and specific criteria for each project group and an integrated framework for project selection and prioritize resource allocation
• We are working with company executives to train them in the updated methods
• Our deliverables involve updated documentations and procedures that executives can follow in their decision-making

 

Adapting Project Management to Project Challenges 

• Since “One Size Does Not fit All,” we then build a specific framework for classifying the projects in the company to build the basis on how to best plan and manage each project type based on its unique challenge
• We also create company guidelines on how to organize and plan each project type, how to assess its risk and cost, and to how to allocate the right contingency resources for minimum risk and maximum efficiency.

 

Assess Gaps and Strategic Maturity; Set Improvement Goals

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Need or Problem: You are not sure where you stand in your industry in terms of project management competency and strategic maturity. You also want to know what are your specific pitfalls and weaknesses of individual projects and your entire portfolio.

• Analyze a single project’s strategic maturity and identifying weak spots

  • Using our maturity analysis, we assess the project’s maturity compared to the industry standard
  • We identify the project’s weak spots and offer necessary improvements 

• In depth study of a project and recommendations for improvement

  • Our analytical and structured interview tools are able to identify project’s problems ahead of time and recommend pre-emptive corrective action  

• Analyzing a company’s project management maturity – finding gaps and setting improvement goals

  • Using a maturity analysis, we assess the company’s maturity compared to the industry standard
  • We identify company’s weaknesses and gaps and set measurable goals for improvement in a specified time frame

Build Career Paths for Future Leaders

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Need or Problem: You don’t have a clear career path for project leaders. In-spite of project importance to company future, project management is still not a well defined career and project leaders are unclear about their future career advancement.

• We study existing patterns of project manager careers
• We define a company specific ladder for project management career path at different well-defined levels
• Create an educational multi-level program to build your future leaders
• Deliverables involve updated documentations and criteria based on levels

 

Learn from Your Past – Invite Research

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Need or Problem: You know there are important lessons to learn from your past. Some project failed, but people don't want to talk about failure, other great successes are lost in the glory, but you would like to learn how to do it again.

{Link to} Invited Research Page
 

Invite an Inspiring Speech

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Need or Problem: You are having an important event, or you wan to celebrate an important milestone. You would like to hold a celebration, but add some educational value to it. You feel that a speech by a guru will do the job. Invite a speech by one of the leading gurus in project management, leadership and innovation. 

{Link to} Invite an Inspiring Speech Page