Programme structure
Semester 1: Heriot Watt University September 2012 – February 2013
Strategic Project Management
Investigates the concept of aligning projects with organisational strategy by organising projects within portfolios and creating a governance structure for programmes of projects.
Competitive Strategy
Examines the concept of sustaining a competitive advantage and the context of the corporate vision is communicated and formulated into business strategy.
Business Models: Themes and Issues
Evaluates strategic concepts and how organizations form and strategize their business models.
Strategic Change
Investigates the various approaches to facilitate the change process, in particular the resistance to the change the project is designed to implement.
Semester 2: Politecnico di Milano March 2013 – July 2013
Business Statistics
The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to Business Statistics and its role in understanding economic phenomena and in decision making. Depending on the student's background, some of the topics illustrated in this course might be already known. However, the goal is to fill possible gaps, and to provide a more applied perspective on the methods.
Finance
The main objective of the Finance course is to develop logics and approaches and to provide tools and operational solutions for the main financial evaluations within the contexts of business and financial markets.
Management Accounting and Control
The goals of this course program are to introduce the basic elements of management control systems, to presents available accounting techniques, their use within organizations, advantages and criticality, to study control architecture, the major decisions in designing the overall system and their implication on management activities and to introduce the main trends relating management control systems.
Project Management 1
The purpose of the course is to provide a general view and introduction to the project management in terms of its principal tools and techniques used in different industry sectors with special consideration for Engineering and Contracting applications
Project Management 2
This module is focused mainly on two goals: to offer some insights on emerging issues in project management for PM success and to supplement theoretical models with case studies and practical experience from managers and practitioners (coming from associate partners or as guess teachers).
Project Procurement
The purpose of the Project Procurement module is to provide basic knowledge about concepts, methods, and techniques for an effective management of the procurement processes. The issues are deployed with regard to complex projects allowing a knowledge transfer and exploitation on the full spectrum of kinds of projects.
Project Risk Analysis and Management
The purpose of the Project Risk Analysis and Management module is to provide basic knowledge about concepts, methods, and techniques in order to execute an effective analysis and management of project risks, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view.
Semester 3: Umeå University: August 2013 – January 2014
Perspectives on Strategy and Management
In the course, alternative theoretical perspectives on
strategic management will be presented, thereby
providing a comprehensive platform for the
semester courses.
Strategic Project Management Decision Making
In the course, alternative theoretical perspectives on
strategic management will be presented, thereby providing a comprehensive platform for the
semester courses.
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