A free and easy training to be a better manager

This self-teaching course for managers, now freely open to all, is designed for the participants to the management courses of Patrick M. Georges, at the business schools of HEC Paris, the University of Brussels, the Vlerick School of Management, the Collège des Ingénieurs.
Three 8-hour tracks are available. Personal Management, Team Management and Business Unit Management.

How to benefit from this self-teaching course

1. Check the course program.
Select your weekly learning objective from the list of the 24 one-hour modules.
Open the module from the key words list below, according to their natural sequence, 1M to 24M, or to their topic.

2. Check how good you are as a manager. Answer the questions.
Study the referenced or downloaded documents. Search the web.

3. Improve your management skills. Check your answers.
Compare with the answers of this blog community or unmask the most frequent answers

4. Optional. Ask for the teacher support by e-mails, video conferences or class sessions

Get started with module 0 to check the 24 learning objectives

Click 0M on the key words list below to start

How to manage your unit with projects and processes Module 18 Track Business Unit Management

Lerning objective
To make business unit management simple, thanks to projects and processes
A manager's trick to simplify a business id to o divide it into a collection of projects and projects, allowing no activities outside those two controlling / delegating methods
Each project / project is delegated to a fully responsible team member

Survey
Who got some experience with process management ?

Reading

www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/process-management
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/project-management
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/business-process-reengineering


Questions
1. What's the difference between a project and a process ?
2. What are the 20 questions that a good "Project Master Document" should answer ?
3. List the main processes in a typical enterprise ? Exemple: "The Order to Cash process"
4. How will you organize a process cockpit ?
5. Why managers measure the process streamline indexes ?



Handout
Document to download Project Master Document

Clues for answering

A project is a way to organize tasks for a one-shot new objective / quality target. Once the objectives / quality level is reached, the projet is turned into a process in order to reduce its costs and delay at stable quality level


The six basic processes to organize to manage a business simply

1. Needs to orders process

2. Orders to cash process
3. Supply chain process
4. Knowledge process
5. Resources planning process
6. Customer relationship process