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PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

No Nonsense Advanced Tutorials, Executive Retreats, and Get-up to Speed Workshops

Workshop Leader:

Dr. Richard Bayney is President & Founder of Project & Portfolio Value Creation (PPVC), a consulting boutique providing Training and Education in Project, Program, Portfolio, Resource, and Risk Management as well as Business, Strategic, Portfolio, and Scenario Planning services. He is a Faculty member at University of Pennsylvania lecturing to graduate and executive students in (a) Project Portfolio Management and (b) Decision Modeling. Richard is a frequent speaker in ‘Portfolio & Resource Management, Risk Analysis & Risk Management, and Strategic Planning in Drug Development’ and is an Advisory Board Member to Cambridge Healthtech Institute.

Dr. Bayney is a 23-year veteran of the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology industry at Merck & Co., Bayer Corp. and AG, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development. In his previous position at Johnson & Johnson, Richard was Vice President, Portfolio Management & Decision Analysis. He has spent 11 years building and leading departments in Strategic Planning, Decision Analysis, and Portfolio Management, 2 years as an International Project Manager for a marketed cardiovascular drug, and 10 years in Molecular Biology research into gene expression in drug detoxification systems and in Alzheimer’s Disease.

Dr. Bayney has implemented several important processes and methodologies that have enabled organizations across diverse industries to realize a multitude of benefits:

  1. New Product Development (NPD) & Stage Gate Review (SGR) process.
  2. Project prioritization methodology from concept to commercialization.
  3. Portfolio optimization methodology using budgetary and human resource constraints.
  4. Sector focus and resource optimization.
  5. Project, Program, Portfolio, and PMO capability maturity assessment
  6. Pipeline commercial forecasting and high risk options analysis.

Dr. Bayney obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of London, MBA from Columbia University, and PMP from the Project Management Institute.

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MASTERING BUILDING BLOCKS OF PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Maximizing Value From Constrained Resources

Philadelphia PA • Friday September 25, 2009 • 8am - 5pm

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Participants involved in:

  • Project Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Product Development, and Business Development

Targeted industries include:

  • Pharma & Biotech
  • Consumer Goods
  • IT
  • Financial Services
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
  • Validate data using effective elicitation techniques that minimize bias
  • Quantify development and commercialization options with Decision Trees and create downstream options by making partial investments
  • Prioritize Projects using a robust, multi-objective methodology –MOPPSM that accommodates quantitative and qualitative objectives
  • Maximize Portfolio value by adopting optimization methods
  • Create interdependencies between Strategic, Portfolio, and Business Planning

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PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: PREPARING NEW STRATEGIES
FOR THE EMERGENCE FROM RECESSION

Managing The Short-Term To Preserve The Long-Term

Delaware • Friday October 23, 2009 • 8am - 5pm

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Participants involved in:

  • Project Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Product Development, and Business Development

Targeted industries include:

  • Pharma & Biotech
  • Consumer Goods
  • IT
  • Financial Services
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
  • Quantify short-, mid-, and long-term objectives and assess alternatives to create Portfolio value in accordance with the organization’s financial and risk tolerance
  • Conduct Scenario and Business Planning analysis to determine alternative ways to build the Portfolio over a multi-period horizon
  • Generate actionable strategic alternatives for discretionary Projects to ensure efficient usage of constrained budgetary and human resources

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IT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Aligning and managing IT investments TODAY to create enterprise value TOMORROW

New York City • Friday December 4, 2009

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Participants involved in:

  • Project and Portfolio Management
  • Program Management Offices
  • Resource Management
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Financial Services

Targeted industries include:

  • Healthcare
  • Consumer Goods
  • Insurance Services
  • Financial Services
  • Supply Chain
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
  • Generate a compelling Business Case for IT investments and Portfolio Management
  • Value IT investments efficiently using quantitative and qualitative criteria
  • Prioritize IT Projects using a utility-based, multi-objective methodology - MOPPSM
  • Create a robust New Product Development (NPD) & Stage Gate Review Process
  • Determine your level of Portfolio readiness in a 5-step Capability Maturity Model

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BEYOND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Creating Competitive Portfolio Management Competencies For Profitability

 Florida •  February 2010

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Participants involved in:

  • Project Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Business Development

Targeted industries include:

  • Pharma & Biotech
  • Consumer Goods
  • IT
  • Financial Services
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
  • Validate data using effective elicitation techniques that minimize bias
  • Decompose Project risks into mitigatable and uncontrollable elements and assess probabilities of success
  • methods that generate alternative Project combinations along the Efficient Frontier
  • Create interdependencies between Strategic, Portfolio, and Business Planning activities to minimize organizational churn and generate business value

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