Project Management of Inovation

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Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to the various aspects of project management of innovations in the Czech environment. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project, innovational project planning methodology, project time management, precedence diagramming method, activity duration estimates, executing the project of innovation, cost estimates of innovation, procurements documents, controlling the project and innovational evaluation criteria. In addition, the process of project management will be outlined and evolving changes in management practices discussed. The course is designed to provide engineers with the basic information and skills necessary to manage innovational projects of the enterprise. Tuition suitably links sequence of managerial and technical subject categories and simultaneously reacts to topical business and graduation theses requirements. Teaching methods will include lectures, group presentations and discussions of cases as well as other exercises.

Requirements:

Requirements for course credit: Attendance, active participation, final test, presentation. Exam from lecturing topics.

Syllabus of lectures:

Modern Project Management. The Evolution Toward Integrated Projects. Alignment of Pro-jects with Organization Strategy. A Project Portfolio Management System. Assessing the Ef-fectiveness of the Priority. Choosing the Appropriate Project Management Structure. Implica-tions of Organizational Culture for Organizing Projects. Establishing Project Priorities. Re-sponsibility Matrices. Estimating Project Times and Costs. Types of Project Constraints. Ra-tionale for Reducing Project Duration. Managing Project Teams. Managing International Pro-jects. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project and project planning methodology. Each student is required to complete a project.

1.The goal and sense of PRMGI, trends in entrepreneurship

2.Categorization of innovations and projects

3.Procedure of innovational project preparation

4.Process of innovational project realization

5.Advancement of balance sheet work

6.Production and operations projects management

7.Marketing projects management

8.Structural EU projects composition

9.Structural EU projects evaluation

10.Innovational activities strategy in the enterprise

11.Project manger´s decision process

12.Creativity management

13.Analyses of successful cases

Syllabus of tutorials:

Training course curriculum (half number of teaching hours 3+1):

1. Process of innovational project preparation and balance sheet work

2. Production and operations projects management

3. Marketing projects management

4. Structural EU projects composition

5. Structural EU projects evaluation

6. Analyses of successful cases

7. Presentation of individual projects.

Study Objective:

Modern Project Management. Cost estimates of innovation, The Evolution Toward Integrated Projects. Innovational evaluation criteria. Alignment of Projects with Organization Strategy. A Project Portfolio Management System. Assessing the Effectiveness of the Priority. Choosing the Appropriate Project Management Structure. Implications of Organizational Culture for Innovations. Establishing Innovational Priorities. Responsibility Matrices. Estimating Project Times and Costs. Types of Project Constraints. Rationale for Reducing Project Duration. Managing Project Teams. Managing International Projects. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project and project planning methodology. Each student is required to complete the project assignment.

Study materials:

Kavan M.: Projektový management inovací, Ediční středisko ČVUT, 2007.

Kavan M.: Výrobní a provozní management, Grada Publishing, 2002.

Gray C., Larson E.: Project Management, McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Rosenau Milton: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2000.

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Further information:

http://www.rep.fs.cvut.cz

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: