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Essential Skills for Managing Projects in VUCA Environment

Changes due to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) mean businesses need to seek new orientations and approach to remain viable. Projects to create new products and services to response to such changes and continue to value-add to customers are vital. Skills for managing such projects include – initiation, planning and synchronizing team-oriented tasks, schedules, and resource allocations - in a real-time environment. The VUCA environment challenges the way projects are to be managed.

Objective

In the context of VUCA environment this 1-day workshop will expose participants to the following:

• Understand issues and challenges associated with VUCA.
• Be equipped with a set of essential skills for managing projects in VUCA.
• Apply a consistent framework for undertaking projects in VUCA.

Outline

1. VUCA environment

• What so unique about VUCA versus traditional situation?
• Specific issues and challenges
• Small group exercise

2. Projects in VUCA

• Understanding projects in VUCA environment
• What new skills are needed?
• Case situation and group discussion

3. A framework to engage VUCA

• VUCA impacts on projects
• What are the critical lookouts?
• Practical application on a selected project case

Who should attend

This course is suitable for the following:

• Self-employed and entrepreneurs who need to understand and operate in innovative environment.
• Executives and managers who need to understand and navigate projects in VUCA enviornment in a timely and intelligent manner in their organisations.

Methodology

Mini exercises, case illustrations and scenarios would provide participants with both opportunity to apply and reinforce what they have learnt in individual and group oriented activities during the workshop.

Profile of Dr. Lim Yew Ban

PhD, MBus(IT), B.Eng, BCCE, ACTA

Dr Lim Yew Ban has worked in engineering, recruitment, sales, data centre operations, management of a training centre, training and consultancy. His roles in these organizations run the gamut of technical production line supervision and troubleshooting, managing the P&L of departments, recruitment of IT professional for clients and dealing with general day-to-day operational issues. He was responsible to implement the transfer of a new product line from US to Singapore operations while working as an engineer with an American MNC.

He had conducted 2 nation-wide surveys under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). The analysis and survey findings were published by SIM as - Computer Security & Practices in Singapore 1994: Survey Findings and Computer Security and Practices in Singapore 1999: Research Monograph of Findings.

Professionally Yew Ban holds a Business Continuity Certified Expert (BCCE) professional certification and has been involved in consultancy and training – both public seminars and customized in-house certification courses for private and public sector organizations in business continuity and disaster recovery since 2005. Participants in public seminars range from senior to mid-level managers from Middle East, India and Asean regions.

Dr Lim holds teaching pedagogy / methodology certificate, and also the Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA).

He is also actively engage in teaching post graduate and doctoral level courses as well as supervision of doctoral candidates.