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    Supplement current management practices to increase the value delivered and make better use of resources

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    Endorses sustainable decision making, depending on adding value, by addressing both monetary and non- monetary factors

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    Increase value in line with the programme, project objectives and key stakeholder requirements

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    Give you a way of addressing reasonable advantage by adding value

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    Provide a way to define aims and scope clearly regarding the organisation’s and end users’ short and long term needs

Management of Value (MoV®) Foundation & Practitioner Training course is a four-day course that will provide delegates with a clear with a clear understanding of the concepts which are designed to get maximum value within project objectives and the delivery according to requirements of key stakeholders. MoV® gives a definition of value that includes both monetary and non-monetary benefits. It gives a method, supported by techniques, for allocating funds as efficiently as possible.

The concepts of MoV® has developed from the successful use of value management across many sectors, over the period of many years. This course describes methods that are as important as ever, although their use is frequently ignored and misapplied.

 

 

Who should take this course

  • Program Managers – responsible for ensuring that programs deliver the best value solutions taking into account the views of the stakeholders
  • Operational Managers – responsible for undertaking MoV® studies to help in reviewing operational procedures and enhancing efficiency
  • Corporate Managers – responsible for starting new programs or projects
  • Project Managers – responsible for providing products from their projects that signify the best value for money solutions
  • Any other professionals who have responsibility for Management of Value within their organisation
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Prerequisites

MoV® Foundation training course is focused at those delegates who have no prior knowledge or experience in this field and also, those who want to get the adequate knowledge to enable them to make a contribution to any project, as well as contributing to improvements in the operational environment.

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What Will You Learn

  • Allows delegates to increase the value they deliver and use resources in much better way make better use of resources Learn how to respond to external and internal influences
  • The key topics in document checklists, toolbox, health check, organisational maturity and personal competence
  • Know the best way to respond influences either external or internal
  • Understand how to apply MoV to a scenario situation
  • Enable delegates to contribute to MoV activities led by others;
  • Understand and explain MoV to others
  • Know how value can be enhanced
  • Get optimal balance between investment and long-term operating expenditure
  • Understand the approaches for implementing MoV effectively
  • Encourages innovation that is well aligned to the organisation’s goals
  • Allows delegates to enhance the value they deliver and uses resources in much better way
  • Supports sustainable decision making, depends upon adding value, by addressing both monetary and non-monetary factor
  • The main benefits arises from the use of MoV
  • Understand and explain MoV to others
  • Learn the better way to respond to both external and internal
  • Learn about principles of embedding MoV into a business
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What's included

  Course Overview

Management of Value (MoV®) is focused on improving benefits and decreasing expenses to speed up the delivery without influencing vital project scope or service quality. It is not just about reducing the costs. MoV is all about increasing value in line with project objectives. It captures fundamental stakeholder necessities for what products should do rather than what they are.

MoV® has emerged from successful practice of value management across different domains from many years. Our value management training course is pointed at all those involved in managing, directing, supporting and delivering portfolios, programmes and projects. MoV® is all about improving the value in line with the programme and project objectives and the requirement of key stakeholders. It is not merely about minimising costs.

The MoV® is essential to effective policy making, projects, programs, service reviews or redesigning of products redesigns. Therefore MoV is necessary to Business as usual and P3M environments, providing an audit trail of how ideal value can be achieved.

The course is designed around four integrated concepts:

Principles:  Factors that support MoV®
Processes and Techniques: Consists of Methods and tools used in application of MoV®
Approach: How to apply MoV® programmes, portfolios, and projects
Environment: Respond to influences such  as external and internal influences

 

benefits of MoV

Exam:

  • Duration: 40 Minutes
  • Type: Closed book
  • Total MCQ: 50 multiple-choice questions
  • Pass Mark: 50%

 

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  Course Content

Overview to MoV®

  • Define Value
  • Define MoV®
  • Why It Is Needed
  • It's Place In The Cabinet Office Best Practice Guidance
  • It's Relationship To Other Management Methods

7 MoV® Principles

  • Alignment With Organisation's Objectives
  • Tailor methods to suit The Subject
  • Learn from experience and improve performance
  • Functions and Required Outcomes
  • Balancing the Variables To Maximise Value
  • Apply Throughout the Investment Decision
  • Assignment of Roles and Responsibilities
  • Build a Supportive Culture

MoV® Environment

  • Know external and internal factors that affect policies and strategies of MoV
  • Describe the portfolio, programme, project and operational environments

MoV® Embedding

  • Understand Process of Embedding
  • Key benefits of embedding MoV®
  • Key steps of embedding MoV®
  • Roles and responsibilities required when using MoV®
  • Overcoming barriers to implementation

The 7 MoV® Processes

  • Frame The Programme Or Project
  • Gather Information
  • Analyse Information
  • Process Information
  • Evaluate & Select
  • Develop Value Improving Proposals
  • Implement & Share Outputs

MoV® Techniques

  • New Techniques in MoV®
  • Techniques that can be implemented within MoV®
  • Analysis of information
    • Benchmarking
    • Process Mapping
    • Root Cause Analysis
    • Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
  • Generating Ideas
    • Brainstorming
  • Evaluation and option selection
    • Option Selection Matrix
    • Idea selection
      • Allocation to Categories
      • Idea Selection Matrix
  • Weighting techniques
    • Paired Comparisons
    • Points Distribution
  • Developing VIPs
    • Developing Proposals
    • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Building Decisions
  • Implementing VIPs
    • Implementation Plans
    • Feedback
  • Following up
    • Tracking Benefits
  • Function Analysis
    • Function Analysis System Technique (FAST)
    • Traditional FAST
    • Technical FAST
    • Customer FAST
  • Value Trees
  • Measuring value
    • Value profiling (value benchmarking)
    • Simple multi-attribute rating technique (SMART)
    • Value index
    • Value metrics
    • Value for money ratio
    • Value Engineering / Analysis

Implementing MoV®

  • Planning activities of MoV®
  • Respond To External and Internal Factors
  • Define Portfolio, Programme and Project Considerations
  • Operational Considerations
  • Implementing Embedding MoV® Into an Organisation
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Manchester (fortified town) is a city in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300 (in 2015). It lies within the United Kingdom's second most populous urban area, with a population of 2.55 million. Manchester is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east. The local authority is Manchester City Council.

Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium or Mancunium in about AD 79. It is aid to have been located on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically a part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated in the 20th century. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township. It  began to expand "at an astonishing rate" only around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation came due  to a boom in textile manufacture . This  and resulted in Manchester becoming the world's first industrialised city.

Manchester achieved city status in 1853. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the place to the sea, 36 miles (58 km) to the west. Its fortunes declined after the Second World War, but the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration.

In 2014, Manchester was ranked as a beta world city, the highest-ranked British city apart from London.

Economy

The economy grew relatively strongly between 2002 and 2012, where growth was 2.3% above the national average. With a GDP of $88.3bn (2012 est., PPP) the wider urban economy is the third-largest in the United Kingdom. In 2012 it showed  the strongest annual growth in business stock (5%) of all the Core Cities.

Landmarks

Manchester's buildings display a variety of architectural styles, ranging from Victorian to contemporary architecture. Manchester is home to a  number of skyscraperswith the tallest being the Beetham Tower was completed in 2006. Outside London it has been described as the United Kingdom's only real skyscraper outside the capital. The award-winning Heaton Park  is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe. The city has 135 parks, gardens, and open spaces.

Two large squares hold many of Manchester's public monuments. Albert Square and the Picaddily Gardens have monuments to various prominent personalities. 

Sport

Manchester is well known for being a city of sport. Two decorated Premier League football clubs bear the city name – Manchester United and Manchester City. Manchester United plays its home games at Old Trafford. Manchester City's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium . The City of Manchester Stadium was initially built as the main athletics stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It was subsequently reconfigured into a football stadium before Manchester City's arrival. Manchester has hosted football competitions at  all levels at the Fallowfield Stadium. The City of Manchester Stadium has also seen many international games being played. The city has hosted almost all the major football competions.

 

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