EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
March 31, 2021
8 weeks, online
4-6 hours per week
US$2,600 or get US$260 off with a referral
Special pricing up to 20% discount is available if you enroll with your colleagues. Please send an email to group-enrollments@emeritus.org for more information.
No matter your industry, large-scale projects are necessary to remain competitive and innovative—but they’re also expensive and time-consuming, with a high potential for mismanagement. These types of projects require leaders who understand more than just their goals. They also require an understanding of the sociopolitical, emergent, and structural complexities that are most likely to derail them. UC Berkeley Executive Education's Leading Complex Projects program is designed to help you become more strategic as a project leader by providing the tools and frameworks to help you effectively navigate these complexities and drive successful outcomes for your organization.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers study of 10,640 projects by 200 companies in 30 countries found that only 2.5% of the companies successfully completed their projects.
A Harvard Business Review study of 1,471 IT projects found that one in six projects had a cost overrun of 200% on average.
For every $1 billion invested in a project, project management issues cost businesses $119 million.
This program was designed to help mid- to senior-level professionals across industries drive their projects to success. It is ideal for:
This eight-week program provides the tools and strategies that will prepare you to lead through three of the most common types of project complexity—structural, emergent, and sociopolitical—and ensure the success of your organization’s most critical large-scale projects.
Learn what makes projects complex, how chaos and complexity affect projects, and apply complexity theory to project management.
Explore the three types of project complexity—structural, emergent and sociopolitical complexities—and use checklist models and weighted scoring models to select and prioritize projects.
Learn the five steps to defining a project and how to lead both planned and unplanned urgent projects.
Assign resources and manage scheduling with the Integrated Project Schedule, and manage large, complex projects with tools including The Convergence Plan, The Program Tool, and The Program Directorate.
Explore project management methodologies (traditional, iterative and adaptive), performance evaluation methods, and learn to use complexity to deal with troubled projects.
Understand the importance and benefits of risk management, explore qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, and learn to deal with complex projects with a large number of dependencies and external factors.
Explore stakeholder management and change management; learn to create high performing teams and build successful virtual teams; and navigate change and uncertainty.
Understand the ASE leadership framework for leading complex projects—Adaptive Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and Entrepreneurial Intelligence—and learn how to govern and leverage complexity.
Learn what makes projects complex, how chaos and complexity affect projects, and apply complexity theory to project management.
Explore project management methodologies (traditional, iterative and adaptive), performance evaluation methods, and learn to use complexity to deal with troubled projects.
Explore the three types of project complexity—structural, emergent and sociopolitical complexities—and use checklist models and weighted scoring models to select and prioritize projects.
Understand the importance and benefits of risk management, explore qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, and learn to deal with complex projects with a large number of dependencies and external factors.
Learn the five steps to defining a project and how to lead both planned and unplanned urgent projects.
Explore stakeholder management and change management; learn to create high performing teams and build successful virtual teams; and navigate change and uncertainty.
Assign resources and manage scheduling with the Integrated Project Schedule, and manage large, complex projects with tools including The Convergence Plan, The Program Tool, and The Program Directorate.
Understand the ASE leadership framework for leading complex projects—Adaptive Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and Entrepreneurial Intelligence—and learn how to govern and leverage complexity.
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Omar Romero-Hernandez
Homa Bahrami
Omar Romero-Hernandez
Continuing Lecturer; Business and Social Impact | Operations and IT Management | Sustainability
Omar Romero-Hernandez is a continuing lecturer in the Haas Operations and IT Management Group and the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the Haas School of Business. He leads the Advanced Project Management Practice for the Graduate Programs.
Romero-Hernandez is a Chemical Engineer with graduate studies in Economic Policy and Government and a PhD in Process Economics and Environmental Impact from Imperial College, England. He has worked for a diverse range of public and private organizations such as Procter & Gamble, PEMEX (Oil & Gas), Accenture, and the Federal Government. He has over 25 years of experience working in medium and large complex projects. He has led several internationally awarded projects in the field of digital transformation, sustainable business strategies, renewable energy and business processes – sponsors include the United Nations, USAID, Industry consortiums, S&P 500 companies, the Stock Exchange and NGOs.
Currently, he is an international educator, board member, national researcher, and author of various books including: Introduction to Engineering, Renewable Energy Technologies and Policies, and Industry and the Environment and several peer reviewed international publications on project management, business modeling, green operations and sustainable development.
In 2010, Romero-Hernandez was a first place laureate for the Franz Edelman Award, the world’s most prestigious award on operations research and management science applications.
Homa Bahrami
Senior Lecturer; Management of Organizations
Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, board member, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility, team alignment, and dynamic leadership in global, knowledge-based industries. She is a senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a faculty director at the Haas Center for Executive Education, and has served on the Board of the Haas Center for Teaching Excellence.
Bahrami is the co-author of a major textbook (with Harold Leavitt, Stanford University), "Managerial Psychology: Managing Behavior in Organizations," published by the University of Chicago Press, and translated into many languages. Her latest book, "Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises," (second edition published by Springer and co-authored with Stuart Evans, Carnegie Mellon) focuses on practical approaches for strategizing, organizing, and leading knowledge workers based on their collective experience and field research in Silicon Valley during the past 30 years.
She has served on the boards of directors of three public technology companies and has been a member of all three board committees: audit, compensation, and governance. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and is active in executive education and executive development in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Upon successful completion of the program, UC Berkeley Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants. This program is graded as a pass or fail; participants must receive 80 percent to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. This program also counts toward a Certificate in Business Excellence.
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