Culture, methodologies and tools and techniques for innovation, adopting a cross-disciplinary approach.
Subiect areas are:
- the idea of innovation, definitions, the major innovation models, push/pull approach,
- fundamentals for innovation: Stakeholders Management; Requirements Managements,
- New Product Development, methodologies for new product design and industrialization, Stage&Gate method,
- Project Management - base: the idea of project , definitions, nature, introduction to tha PMI and to the PMBOK® model; project, programme, portfolio, projects vs operations, constraints and assumptions, project and organizational model, Project Lifecycle, Project vs Product; project initiation: the project charter, the contract, roles and responsibilities; project closure: knowledge management, lesson learned; Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management

- Project Management - advanced: the customer and his requirements, Business Analysis fundamentals, elicitation process, the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), Rolling Wave planning; time management: Network diagram, Gantt e Milestone; project monitoring and control, the EVM – Earned Value Management mehod; the limits of planning; Extreme Project Management, VUCA environment (hints).

- Agile PM (hints)

- Project Portfolio Management, strategy delivered, the PPM processes: Screening, Selection, Implementation, Evaluation; PPM and organizational scenarios

- Enterprise Risk Management: risk based thinking, definitions, grammar, approach to uncertainty; Project Risk Management: Risk Identification, facilitated focus group, Delphi tecnique; Risk Analysis e Risk Evaluation: PxI matrix; risk (threat) response planning: Avoidance, Transference, Mitigation, Acceptance; contingency management, at project, program, portfolio level; risk as opportunity: Exploitation, Sharing, Enhancement, Acceptance.

- Team management tools:
• Tuckman Cycle, team building
• Conflict management and problem solving