Audience
Participants in this course may be Involved in middle/senior management functions such as project implementation strategic planning and team leadership. Their responsibilities may include relationships between customers and suppliers.
Objective
Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Motivate employees.
- Recognize challenges presented when evaluating business relationships in value chain management.
- Recognize challenges involved in gaining cost leadership.
- Recognize functions of training during transition to value chain management.
- Identify ways to overcome motivation and measurement challenges when managing change.
- Differentiate between quality and productivity challenges when implementing change.
- Recognize the challenges posed by benchmarking when managing change.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Challenges of Value Chain Management
- Recognize challenges of trust and commitment in value chain management.
- Recognize challenges of communication in value chain management.
- Private employees.
- Recognize challenges presented when evaluating business relationships in value chain management.
- Recognize challenges involved in overcoming cultural barriers in value chain management.
- Recognize challenges involved in gaining cost leadership.
- Identify challenges associated with creating a value proposition.
- Recognize challenges involved in understanding your competitors.
- Simulation Overview.
Unit 2: Managing Transition to the Value Chain
- Identify models to drive change within the organization.
- Identify effective uses of information in managing change.
- Identify steps in a change management process.
- Recognize functions of training during transition to value chain management.
- Identify reasons for establishing teams during transition to value chain management.
- Identify functions of leadership during transition to value chain management.
- Identify ways to overcome motivation and measurement challenges when managing change.
- Differentiate between quality and productivity challenges when implementing change.
- Recognize the challenges posed by benchmarking when managing change.
- Identify benefits of effective collaborative relationships between intermediaries within the value chain.
- Identify steps to select outsourcing partners.
- Simulation Overview.
Duration
4
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada