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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Leading Strategic Projects Programme

Go beyond traditional project management and redefine project success with a strategic approach.

Go beyond traditional project management and redefine project success with a strategic approach.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 15, 2024
Enroll by May 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 15, 2024
Enroll by May 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, traditional approaches to project delivery have become insufficient. Digital transformation, business innovation, and new customer needs have made it vital for professionals to adapt their project strategies to allow for the complexity and uncertainty associated with constant change.

The Oxford Leading Strategic Projects Programme is unique in its contemporary approach, which equips you with both the leadership and strategic project management skills needed to facilitate successful project delivery. You’ll develop an understanding of the benefits associated with strategic project leadership, and gain the tools for redefining and achieving organization-wide success within today's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.

This programme is designed for professionals seeking to introduce strategic approaches and techniques for project leadership. It is relevant to anyone interested in creating a more sustainable environment for project success, and improving their ability to achieve organization-wide objectives.

Whether you’re in a senior strategic position or working within a project environment, you will benefit from the skills and knowledge shared on this course. Managers will improve the success of their projects by learning a more strategic approach, while business and operations professionals will understand how to effectively implement strategic projects they’re responsible for. Professionals will also improve their leadership skills to manage project teams and strategic initiatives more effectively.

Course curriculum

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Explore principles and practices for leading strategic projects as you work through the weekly modules of this online course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Strategic projects: Understanding complexities and risks

Module 2: Reinterpreting success and performance in strategic projects

Module 3: Structural complexities: Responding to the challenges of scale and pace

Module 4: Sociopolitical complexities: Responding to the challenges of power, people, and politics

Module 5: Emergent complexities: Responding to the challenges of uncertainty and change

Module 6: Success by design

About the certificate

Embark on a journey to learn strategic project leadership and earn an official certificate of attendance from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the programme.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

67%

The increase in the number of projects that fail outright in organizations that undervalue project management as a strategic tool for driving change.

PMI (2020).

36%

The percentage of organizations that report that their projects mostly or always deliver their full benefits.

Wellingtone (2021).

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