Objectives and competences
In this course students:
- Get to know with the current strategic - national and global - changes which have influence on forming companies’ strategies and their projects.
- Get to know models of forming visions, missions, strategies and projects.
- Acquire with methods of strategy start-up preparations and models of project oriented strategic implementations.
- Acquire with ways and methods for preparation of project, financial and other plans.
- Acquire dissection of connection between project, strategic and general management at start up, execution and leading of projects in different organizational environments.
- Know how to use databases and methods to extract the data essential for achieving project and project portfolio optimisation.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- managing companies growth and development life cycles
- strategic management, forming and executing strategies
- strategy start-up with connectedness of strategic and project management
- project oriented strategic management
- strategic project plans, strategic financial plans and strategic project plans of assuring performing resources
- organizational solutions of project oriented strategic management
- information system for supporting project oriented strategic management
- project oriented strategic management in project oriented organizations
- project oriented strategic management in non-profit sector
- project oriented strategic management for carrying out national development
- cases of strategy start-up from experiences
Learning and teaching methods
- lectures,
- AV presentations,
- practical cases
- working in computer classroom,
- active individual and team work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
Students:
- an in-depth and systematic understanding of project-oriented strategic management and related areas,
- Knows and understands a wide range of methods and techniques for teamwork, strategic thinking, applying knowledge to design strategic, programmatic and project solutions, motivating, integrating technical, economic, organisational and other skills.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Cognitive/Intellectual skills:
- analyse complex, incomplete and contradictory areas of knowledge and be able to explain the results of critical analysis in a comprehensible manner
- critically synthesise information in a way that can be innovative and can see the applied value of knowledge or processes in terms of (subject/discipline) and practice
- Demonstrates independence and originality in problem solving
Key/Transferable skills
- Can work with a group as a leader or as a member, clarify the task and make appropriate use of team members' abilities, handle negotiation and conflict with an appropriate degree of self-confidence.
- Masters the use of a full range of teaching aids.
- Masters the independent learning necessary for continuing professional development. Knows how to draw on the expertise of others where this is appropriate and necessary.
Practical skills:
- operating in complex, unpredictable and/or specific circumstances
- initiative and personal responsibility in carrying out tasks
Readings
Temeljna študijska literatura (Compulsory textbooks):
Kerzner, Harold. Using the project management maturity model: strategic planning for project management. John Wiley & Sons, 2019. Pridobljeno 25. aprila 2023: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119559078.
José Magano, Gilbert Silvius, Cláudia Sousa e Silva, Ângela Leite. The contribution of project management to a more sustainable society: Exploring the perception of project managers, Project Leadership and Society,
Volume 2, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2021.100020.
Hauc, Anton: Projektni management, Ljubljana, GV Založba, 2007.
Dodatna študijska literatura (Additional textbooks):
Kerzner, Harold. Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons, 2022.
Additional information on implementation and assessment - individual research work, written and oral report on research work
- oral examination
