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Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations 
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Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
 at 
MIT University 
Overview

Explore proven, practical, and innovative strategies for maximizing the contribution of technical professionals

Duration

3 days

Total fee

3.43 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
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Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
 at 
MIT University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For CIOs
  • For Chief technologists
  • For Directors of R&D and engineering
  • For Engineering and manufacturing VPs
  • For Corporate strategists
  • For Head scientists
  • For Project managers
  • For Systems information managers
  • For Product development managers
  • For Experienced individual contributors and staff professionals
  • For Other key members of technical leadership and management
What are the course deliverables?
  • Managing and motivating your technical professionals
  • Developing effective reward and incentive systems for technical professionals
  • Creating a highly motivating work environment
  • Managing and leading creative individual contributors
  • Maximizing the technical productivity and vitality of teams
  • Leading and managing more effectively across organizational structures
  • Leading system change within established corporate cultures
  • Transferring technology and information flows between and within organizations
  • Organizing for innovative product development
  • Managing the tensions among development efforts and cost/schedule pressures
More about this course
  • This course provides key insights on how to retain technical staff, integrate technical professionals into the organization, build more successful project teams, and keep teams high-performing over time
  • Students will learn how to manage risk taking and uncertainty in technical projects
  • This course explores a set of proven, practical, and innovative strategies for maximizing the contribution of an organization's technical resources
  • It provides key insights on how to retain technical staff, integrate technical professionals into the organization, build more successful project teams, and keep teams high-performing over time

Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
 at 
MIT University 
Curriculum

DAY 1

Introduction: 4 Key generalizations about creative and innovative performance

Managing Motivation, Performance, Productivity

Managing the Interrelationships among Uncertainty, Motivation, and Creative Performance

DAY 2

Managing Uncertainty for Creative Performance and the Role of Socialization

Leading and Motivating Project Groups and Creative Individual Contributors

Managing Motivation and Innovation Over Time

DAY 3

Individual Creativity and Effective Decision-Making in Organizations

Managing Technology Transfers and More Effective Communication Flows in Organizations

Managing Tradeoffs Among Cost, Schedule, and Functionalities

Debrief and Putting Takeaways into Actions

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Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
 at 
MIT University 
Faculty details

Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz is a Senior Lecturer in Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

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