International Institute for
Learning, Inc.
Headquartered in New York City with operating
companies in nine nations around the world, International Institute for
Learning (IIL) has proven to be a true world leader in Project, Program, and
Portfolio Management.
In fact, IIL's 15-year history has been
dedicated to providing project managers and their companies with education and
all-around support for maximum effectiveness. That is our core business and
capability. We've worked hard to assure that what comes "out of the
box" for our clients is highly useful, complete, and easily tailored to
actual business needs.
We offer a suite of Project Management
courses for general and IT professionals that is anchored on solid principles
and delivered with real-world knowledge. Our instructors are consistently rated
excellent by their participants - skilled at lending a sense of discovery to
the learning process and in motivating project managers to apply what they've
learned back to the workplace.
Our Project Management curriculum covers
everything from the basic to the sophisticated, and other IIL courses support
project managers in related areas such as Six Sigma, where we are a leader in
integrating two powerful but often separate disciplines.
Flexibility is built into our standard way of
working, including our "off the shelf' courses and tools. We assure you of
convenient courses just as we have provided them last year to clients in over
40 nations and virtually in another 100 countries. We not only use, but have mastered,
the wide array of technologies available to provide education when and where an
individual is best able to learn. This includes traditional classroom,
instructor-Ied virtual classroom, asynchronous eLearning, computer-aided
simulation, videoconferencing, videos, webcasts, and more.
Our certification pathway is top notch. IIL
was one of the very first charter global members of the Project Management
Institute's registered education provider program and has worked closely with
PMIQ!) on strategic and operational initiatives for the last 15 years (see
below). In addition, university transcripts are offered through partnerships
with the prestigious University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies and
the USC Marshall School of Business.
The Best Partner
IIL prides itself on being a client-driven
company. We deliver on that every day, investing the time and energy needed to
grow the profession as well as our business. We work closely with our clients
¬asking, listening, and responding with the new courses and tools. Two of our
most highly successful eLearning and software tools were developed jointly with
two large, leading clients, Celestica and Alcatel.
While clients often find our "out of the
box" solutions a complete and effective plan, our instructional design and
development group can work closely with you to leverage IIL courseware to the
specific goals, jobs, ski lis gaps, and other factors unique to your
environment. Our designers often conduct needs analyses with clients to
determine the amount of customization needed. And they frequently help clients
to clarify their needs, formulate goals or better define content.
Customization is the IIL way, not the
exception. You can rely on us for efficient, flexible, and sure tailoring on
individual courses or entire curricula.
Our Track Record
IIL presents solid evidence of our ability.
We serve global clients like AT&T, Alcatel, Deutsche Bank, SAP, Sita, and
Kautex with innovative, flexible, cost-effective training set at the highest
professional and academic standards.
At SAP one of the world's leading business
software solutions providers, IIL helped to integrate Project Management into
the overall global business strategy. IIL created a 5-day "PM
Fundamentals" program as well as an online environment facilitating a
post-class certification exam and evaluation site. Overall we trained 1,200
project managers in 22 nations over just a few months to support the effective
rollout and adoption of SAP's global Project Management methodology and to help
increase Project Management maturity. Satisfaction rates significantly exceeded
every performance metric the company sought and custom programs on Leadership,
Escalation Management and Requirements and Risk Management are now provided as
part of SAP's Phase 2 "PM Excellence" program.
At SITA, the world's leading provider of
global lT Telecom solutions to the air transport and related industries, the
development of the Project Management training program was based on an
Organizational Maturity Assessment utilizing the Kerzner PM Maturity Model.
Our Instructors Deliver the
IIL "Edge"
Over 200 senior project professionals work as
instructors, consultants, and coaches for IIL worldwide. This enables IIL to
provide training in every location our clients need it, whether traditional
classroom or virtual, live or asynchronous, and localized for language and
culture needs.
AII instructors are selected through a
stringent interview process that balances industry and academic excellence with
classroom ski lis. And their performance is evaluated constantly. IIL's highly
credentialed and experienced instructors, consultants, and subject-matter
experts are able to deliver focused learning to clients that yield immediate
benefits. In fact, the quality of IIL's people - most especially our
instructors - embodies our value and makes the real difference.
Our clients can count on us for:
§ Instructors who
consistently deliver tangible value. IIL program evaluations point
overwhelmingly to the excellence with which our people communicate real-world
knowledge, and the sense of discovery they impart to their classes. Beginning
with Dr. Harold Kerzner, a pioneer in modern project management education who
joined IIL at its inception as senior executive director, our commitment to
instructor excellence extends to every one of our over 200 educators worldwide.
§ Learning approaches
that are proven in theory and practice - intellectually right on one hand, but
also efficient and effective on the other because they're grounded on deep
experience and solid tools and techniques.
§ Course design and
customization that is truly tailored, growing both from our professionals'
ability and our client care philosophy. We recognize that no lesson is learned
unless it is presented in a way that involves students at the moment and in a
way they want to learn. Our instructional designers harness their creativity
and real-world knowledge to make this happen. And they recognize (a long with
all of our people) that the reason we're here is to help you accomplish your
goals.
The result of all of
this is a focus on total value in training, growth of the professional and
organizational improvement.
IIL Leads in its Profession
and Works Closely with PMI®
IIL possesses a long, close working
relationship with the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
IIL is a Charter Global Registered Education
Provider of the PMI® and the first and only member of PMI®'s Platinum Alliance Circle. Of course, as a recognized accredited training organization,
attendees of IIL courses are able to obtain Professional Development Units
(PDUs).
Importantly also, IIL is a member of the
select, global PMI® Corporate Council and collaborates closely with PMI® to
advance the Project Management profession. In fact, E. LaVerne Johnson, our founder, president and CEO, was recently chosen by PM Network, PMI®'s
magazine, as one of the world's 50 most important executives advancing Project
Management.
In addition, allPM.com - IIL's worldwide Web
site for the professional Project Management community - creates a special and
durable bond between our firm and our core users. Over 33,000 global project
managers from over 90 countries currently belong to aIlPM.com, enjoying a
strong sense of comradeship among themselves, gaining knowledge from advanced
White Papers on the site and sharing their own best practices. IIL
Publishing-New York also provides another valuable service to the global
Project Management profession by offering targeted titles that would be
difficult to find among large, commercial publishers. For instance, It Isn't
Excel: It's Magic! and the forthcoming Zen of Project Management.
About Dr. Harold Kerzner
Harold Kerzner (Ph.D., MS, Engineering and
MBA) is Senior Executive Director with International Institute for Learning, Inc.
and Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College. He is an expert
in the areas of project management and strategic planning. Dr. Kerzner is the
author of the best-selling textbooks: Project Management: A Systems Approach to
Planning, Scheduling and Controlling, now in its ninth edition, In Search of
Excellence in Project Management, Applied Project Management and Strategic
Planning for Project Management Using a Project Management Maturity Model, and
his most recent book, Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global
Excellence.
Our Tools and Knowledge
Management Solutions Support our Clients' Goals
Beyond training alone, clients will find IIL
a strong partner in rolling out the highest quality of Project Management
professionalism throughout the organization, and achieving maximal benefits
fast. Our commitment to working closely with you (as described above) begins
here. But in addition, our many tools and techniques - including UPMMTM,
Project Pulsel® and the Kerzner Project Management Maturity ModelTM - helps our
clients make Project Management an even bigger part of their way of life
quickly and effectively.
Notably, our Unified Project Management®
Methodology 2.0 (UPMMTM) delivers a step-by-step process and guide to project
Management right to the desktops of any user through Web-based technology. It
does so in a scalable, customizable, and easy-to-use form. And UPMMTM provides
a balanced approach to Project Management that embodies all of IIL's collective
wisdom as well as that of the globally recognized Project Management standard,
PMI®?s PMBOK® Guide. With PMBOK®' Guide alignment, our clients have the
assurance of knowing it is implementing across the enterprise exactly according
to the authoritative, global Project Management standard. (Under license with
PMI® we have included 100% of the PMBOK® Guide in UPMMTM).
UPMMTM can complement existing project
management methods and quickly increase efficiency and productivity, improve
communications and knowledge, get the PMBOK® Guide advantage and accelerate
Project Management maturity, among many significant benefits. But UPMMTM is
just one of the many ways along with coaching, assessments, needs analyses and
customizations in which IIL can help you achieve the most effective project
management rollout.
Also, for clients seeking solutions support,
we have established a strategic collaboration with Pcubed to ensure our
world-class training is reinforced in the working environment with proven,
repeatable project management practices.
The Best Solution
Our clients find that everything we offer is
geared to enable change, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness .of
individuals and organizations. We offer comprehensive training on all the
"hard" and "soft" skills of project, program, and portfolio
management, among other areas. Together with this focus, we bring unequalled
professionals, tremendous breadth of training and tools, and flexibility in
terms of delivery modes and locations.
Finally, IIL delivers a quality commitment we
make good on one client at a time - something each client benefits from whether
its needs are as sophisticated as partnering with you to increase
organizational effectiveness or as straightforward as working with one, single
professional to assist on his or her own learning pathway.
IIL's watchword in developing training,
techniques, and tools is providing knowledge that is useful immediately and of
significant value in the long term. Our clients find we deliver on that
commitment.
IIL Focuses on Helping Clients
in a Number of Critical Ways
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Focusing
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Delivering…
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Benefits
including…
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WHAT
YOU DO:
Acquiring
hard skills & credentials from basic to complex
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Diverse
courses on the "Science" of PM:
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Where,
when & how you need them
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Effective
training & techniques
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A
focus on total value & growth
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Excellence
in core skills Certification pathways
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Advanced
mastery
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HOW
TO WORK WITH OTHERS:
Sharpening
the soft skills to bring people and teams to maximum effectiveness
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Diverse
courses on the “Art” of PM:
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Managing
and leading
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Buildings
teams
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Resolving
conflicts
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Negotiating
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Communications
and presentations
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Heightened
ability to lead or to join others on a team
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Tools
to fashion the best outcome
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HOW YOU INCREASE
EFFICIENCY:
Using
software tools to make the job easier
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UPMM:
Consistent, repeatable PM. processes throughout the organization
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Microsoft®
Project: Working
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efficiently
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Project
Pulse: Gauging if you are on track
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Consistency
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Efficiency
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Knowledge
sharing
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Improved
decision making
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Risk
reduction
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Improved
use of software tools
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HOW
YOU MANAGE FOR SIX SIGMA PROCESS EXCELLENCE:
Maximizing
Six Sigma efforts
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Diverse
courses on:
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Results
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Fundamentals
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Executives
and “champions”
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Black
and Green belt certification
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Advance
statistics
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PM
for Six Sigma
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Integrating
two powerful disciplines for maximum effectiveness
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Getting
the most out of current Six Sigma resources
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Improved
project selection
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Quicker
results
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TO HEIGHTEN ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
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IIL
professionals working with clients to develop capabilities. processes, skills
and professionals including:
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Change
management
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Maturity
and other business assessments
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"Best
Practices"
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Customizing
UPMM & other tools
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Creating
new tools
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More
rapid and thorough acceptance of new tools and techniques
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Maximally
effective technique because they are tailored for one organization
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Driving
training from the classroom into the workplace and gaining results
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