Quick-Start Shoreline Tuesday

The Tuesday Quick-Start Shoreline Business Workshop for start-up, existing or potential business owners will be held on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 from 12noon to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Avenue N. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch. 

Title: Project Management Principles for High Performance, Profit, and Customer Satisfaction

Three Questions modern day business owners and organizations need to ask 

By Larry Adeyemi

The days when a company (small or big) could offer a new product or service and still maintain long-term competitive dominance are gone without innovation and adoption of a new approach such as project management best practices. Business owners and organizations need to understand that the life cycle of new product design, production and delivery to the market place or customer is measured in terms of months or even weeks rather than years. Thanks to innovative technologies.

Product and service delivery by small businesses and organizations are schedule-driven and inherently risky. Between time constraints, technical challenges and shifting consumer behavior, things that can go wrong often do. Overcoming these challenges means businesses and organizations need to use project management best practices to achieve competitive advantage while adding value to their bottom line. 

According to an Economist Intelligence report (May 2010), 80 percent of global executives believed having project management as a core competency helped them remain competitive during the recession. It means the delivery of business outcomes is realized through the success of projects, and in essence that is the way that project management strategies drive organizational success.

At this powerful event, you’ll learn:

• Tips on how to accelerate development and delivery of your products and services

• How to develop project management MindMapTM to jump start and sustain high performing team, and profitable business including meeting or exceeding your customers’ shifting needs and expectations

Additionally, we’ll prompt you to ask 3 critical questions that your business or organization may be facing as a basis for creating projects that can potentially deliver successful business or organizational outcomes.

I love to help individual and businesses or organizations to overcome project management challenges that may be stalling getting your products or services delivered consistently on time, on budget and meeting or exceeding your customers’ expectations.

Lawrence Adeyemi

Lawrence Adeyemi is a Managing Director and Principal of Green Project Solutions Group, LLC, a project management, business accelerator development, renewable energy and energy efficiency project consulting company. With over 27 years of management consulting and project management experience, Larry has created project and service delivery accelerator smart kitTM to guide his clients toward the results that really matter and value-driven to their strategic mission. He has more than 15 years in business and project development and strategic planning, mentoring, business sustainability planning and best value procurement for several profit and non-profit organizations. He has also trained managers in public agencies, private businesses, financial institutions, and international organizations. Local Puget Sound organizations he has worked with include King County, City of Seattle, City of Bellevue, Boeing, Opus Bank, including several small businesses and non-profit organizations. 

He has maintained extensive ties to the academic institutions like the University of Washington, Central Washington University, Stanford University and Shoreline Community College. He is an adjunct faculty and lead of Project Management at Shoreline Community College where he also teaches short-term project management courses for Plus 50 retirees and start-up small business owners. His combined professional and consulting experiences equip him to lead project management and best value procurement training for the US government’s strategic commercial partners in emerging global markets, such as Vietnam, Botswana, Burma, 

He obtained his Ph.D. degree and Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Washington, Seattle. Larry is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) granted by the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has at various times contributed to the development of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and certification exam writing.