"Gaining a Strategic Advantage through SAP-Centric Project Management"

An educational speech outlining strategies to improve the effectiveness of enterprise projects that deliver on corporate goals.

Target Audience:

General Business Audiences, IT and Project Team Members, and their Managers

Questions...

• Do your projects effectively support your corporate strategy?
• Are you comfortable that your enterprise can consistently deliver projects on a world-class level?
• Do you know how ready and mature your organization's project management capabilities are - and how you can improve them?

...and Answers

• Using specific examples, Berthold Kastel addresses the above questions. Starting with a model to assess the project management maturity of complex organizations, he outlines why and how back-end integrated applications can boost project management capabilities of enterprises.

• Looking beyond functional capabilities of software applications, Berthold focuses on vertical, horizontal, and supply chain integration into core business processes. This also includes a look at typical integration touch points between ERP and external project management software, and how these relate to generally acknowledged project management principles of the PMBOK.

• He also points out the steps to turn project management applications into strategic differentiators and key contributors of corporate success. Participants gain a new perspective on strategic enablers for world-class project management in an enterprise organization.

Note: This presentation can also focus on the use of MS Project or Primavera in the above-mentioned context.