Project and operations management (Chaire Solvay Alumni)

This course should help you to understand the processes involved in the effective planning and subsequent management of projects. In addition, it will offer some tools to manage projects in a manufacturing and service setting. This will help you to reach the following outcomes:

• Gain the knowledge to manage a project from the beginning to the end

• Identify the different project phases

• Understand the project management processes

• Build a project management plan

• Develop and increase awareness of available resources to further develop your project management skills

• Consider how to apply knowledge for your own project

• Apply operations management tools and practices into your project

LO 1.1 Integrate sustainable development into problem analysis

LO 1.2 Master and apply key economic and management concepts, frameworks and theories in a professional context in order to identify a business opportunity and create a relevant innovative solution for it

LO 1.3 Embed scientific and technological processes as well as external factors to formulate a business issue into a well-defined problem and propose a solution

LO 2.1 Adopt a scientific approach to data collection, research and analysis and communicate results with clear, structured and sophisticated arguments

LO 2.2 Display critical thinking and develop autonomous learning strategies and techniques

LO 4.1 Work and communicate effectively as part of a team in an international and multicultural environment

LO 4.2 Demonstrate work ethics to foster a socially responsible behaviour in the workplace

Connaissances et compétences pré-requises ou co-requises

Knowledge of basic statistics. 

Lectures, cases and project. 

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

• Reference Book: Project Management: the managerial process – E.W. Larson, C.F. Gray, McGraw-Hill, International Edition 2014

• References that might be relevant for students wishing to go beyond the course with specific concepts:

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge - Project Management Institute, 2013.

Reinventing Project Management; The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation – A.J. Shenhar, D. Dvir, Harvard Business Review Press, 2007

Project Management: A Systems Approach for Planning, Scheduling and Controlling – H. Kerzner, Wilez, 2013

Support(s) de cours

• Syllabus
• Université virtuelle

Contacts

eric.fesler@contraste.com
evelyne.vanpoucke@ulb.be

Campus

Solbosch

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

• Projet
• Travail de groupe

Projet

Travail de groupe

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

A group work describing a project and class participation of the operations management part

Langue(s) d'évaluation

• anglais
• français