Master's Degree in Continuing Education in Business Administration and Management of Engineering and Construction Projects
PRESENTATION
Objectives
• Lead the planning, execution, and oversight of engineering and construction initiatives, optimizing scope and contract management. • Oversee project financing, from projections through the implementation of project finance in international contexts. • Design advanced strategies for cost estimation and control, and effective negotiation in the engineering and construction sector. • Comprehensively manage project-related risks by developing effective mitigation and response plans. • Base strategic decisions on in-depth accounting and financial analysis, with a thorough understanding of the company’s balance sheet. • Integrate agile methodologies such as Scrum and marketing strategies to optimize project execution.
Methodology
At Educa PHAROS, we use a highly practical methodology focused on the direct application of knowledge in the student’s professional environment, combining theoretical content with real-world cases, digital tools, and support from a team of specialized instructors.
Program
- Session 1: Scope Management I
- Session 2: Scope Management II
- Session 3: Scope Management III
- Session 4: Contract Management I
- Session 5: Contract Management II
- Session 1: Negotiation I
- Session 2: Negotiation 2
- Session 3: Negotiation 3
- Session 4: Cost Control
- Session 1: Cost Estimation 1
- Session 2: Cost Estimation 2
- Session 3: Cost Estimation 3
- Session 4: Planning 1
- Session 5: Planning 2
- Session 6: Planning 3
- Session 1: Global Context
- Session 2: Risk Management 1
- Session 3: Risk Management 2
- Session 4: Risk Management 3
- Session 5: Earned Value Method
- Time Value of Money
- Investment Valuation Methods
- Preparation of financial projections.
- Quality of financial projections and residual value.
- Sources of project funding.
- Cost of capital and debt level of the project. Evaluation of projects with uncertain outcomes.
- Introduction to the Funding Model
- Project Finance.
- Project Risk Analysis.
- Project Financeability.
- Entities involved in the project's financing.
- Ratios and Project Funding Management.
- Trends in Financing for International Projects.
- Country Risk Management.
- Sources of Funding for International Projects.
- Financial Management of Service Projects.
- Identifying Costs in Service Projects.
- Allocation of costs to services.
- Establishing the service budget.
- Financial monitoring and service closure.
- Accounting Logic
- The Balance Sheet
- The Journal and the General Ledger
- Accounting Principles
- The Most Common Balance Sheet Accounts (I)
- The Most Common Balance Sheet Accounts (II)
- Revenue and Expenses
- The Income Statement
- The Most Common Accounting Entries for Revenue and Expenses (I)
- The Most Common Accounting Entries for Revenue and Expenses (II)
- The Cash Flow Statement
- Analysis of Changes in the Balance Sheet
- Strategy for Ensuring Liquidity
- Strategy for Ensuring Solvency
- Leverage and Financial Return
- Analysis Using Economic and Financial Ratios
- The Financial System
- Financial Mathematics
- Investment Decisions. Net Present Value (NPV)
- Investment Decisions. The IRR
- Fundamentals of Socially Responsible Organizations
- Socially Responsible Features
- Value Creation and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Setting CSR Goals
- Planning and Scheduling of CSR Activities
- Integrating CSR into the Organization's Overall Strategy
- Stakeholder Groups
- Concept and Types of "Stakeholders"
- Stakeholder Relations
- CSR and Stakeholders
- Sustainable Corporate Management
- Corporate Governance
- Executive Ethics in Responsible and Sustainable Business
- Ethics and CSR Audits
- Designing a CSR Action Plan
- The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Historical Background of CSR
- The Beginnings of CSR
- Long-Term Vision vs. Short-Term Vision
- Building a Socially Responsible Company
- What elements should a CSR report include?
- Introduction to Social Marketing
- Characteristics of Social Marketing
- Social Responsibility and Ethics in Marketing
- Types of Social Marketing
- Social Marketing and Social Responsibility
- The Expansion of the Concept of Marketing
- Social Marketing Plan
- Company Results from Corporate Social Marketing Programs
- Values and Principles of the Traditional Company
- Values and Principles of a Responsible and Sustainable Company
- The Common Good and the Individual Good
- Agility as a Response to a Changing Environment
- The Evolution of Organizational Thought
- Key Principles of the Agile Approach from a Strategic Perspective
- Adaptive Mindset and Culture of Learning
- Factors That Hinder or Facilitate Agile Adoption
- Delivering value as the cornerstone of agile work
- In-depth understanding of user needs
- Early validation: reducing risk and uncertainty
- Impact Indicators vs. Performance Indicators
- Continuous feedback and iterative learning
- Self-Organized Teams and Principles of Autonomy
- Distributed decision-making
- Building Environments of Trust and Psychological Safety
- Coordination and Communication in Dynamic Environments
- Managing Interdependencies Among Teams
- From Team Agility to Organizational Agility
- Flexible Structures vs. Traditional Hierarchies
- Distributed and facilitative leadership
- Cycles of continuous innovation throughout the organization
- The Challenge of Agile Strategic Alignment
- Physical and virtual spaces that foster collaboration
- Technology and tools as enablers (not protagonists)
- Rituals and practices that foster continuous learning
- Visual Management and Operational Transparency
- Learning by Doing: Agile Experience Design
- Common Myths About Transformation Processes
- Approaches to Initiating a Transition to Agility
- Maturity Models and Agile Diagnostics
- Resistance to Change: An Effective Approach
- Case Studies of Applications in Various Sectors
- The State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence
- Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- The Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Project Development Processes Using Artificial Intelligence
- Data: Your Greatest Asset
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Transformers
- Synthetic Data Generation
- Hyperparameters in Artificial Intelligence Models
- Linear Regression
- Nonlinear Regression and Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- Decision Trees and Random Forests
- Fuzzy Logic and Gradient Descent
- Recommendation Systems
- Setting Up the Development Environment: Anaconda, Visual Studio Code, and Python
- Input Dataset and Data Processing
- TensorHub, TensorFlow, and Keras
- Image Processing
- Generation of Artificial Intelligence Models
- Understanding Digital Marketing and E-commerce
- Digital Marketing Ecosystem - Roles and Responsibilities of the Digital Marketing Officer
- The Digital Strategy
- E-commerce, m-commerce, and s-commerce
- Digital Business and Technology Partnerships
- Definition of Inbound and Outbound Marketing
- Digital Marketing to Attract and Retain Customers
- Content Marketing
- Social Media and Community Management
- Digital Marketing Plan
- SEO
- SEM
- Programmatic Marketing and RTB
- Performance Strategy and Techniques
- Email Marketing
- Understanding the User: Customer Experience, UX & UI
- Data Science & Big Data
- Data Visualization
- Google Analytics
- Digital Metrics and Digital Marketing Trends
- The Effects of Infrastructure on Economic Development.
- Financing Structures: Public vs. Private.
- Models and Structures of Public-Private Partnerships.
- Public-Private Partnership Contracts Around the World.
- Identification of public-private partnership projects.
- Regulatory and Institutional Framework for Public-Private Partnerships: COMMON LAW vs. CIVIL LAW
- Fiscal Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships: Capacity and Impact on the Deficit
- Economic Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships
- Financial Analysis of Public-Private Partnerships
- Stakeholders
- Technical, Economic, and Financial Feasibility of Public-Private Partnership Projects.
- Social and Environmental Feasibility of Public-Private Partnership Projects.
- Risk Allocation in Public-Private Partnership Contracts.
- The Concept of Value for Money.
- Definition of the project's marketing and advertising criteria.
- Bidding Process and Award of Public-Private Partnership Contracts.
- Definition of the contract's financial structure.
- Contract management during the construction and operations phases.
- The renegotiation of infrastructure concession contracts.
- Termination of the contract and transfer of assets.
- Introduction to Leadership Skills
- Authority and Inspiration
- Leadership. A Key Personal and Managerial Skill
- Approaches to Leadership Theory
- The Role of the Leader
- Administrative Functions of Leadership
- Leadership Styles
- What are social skills?
- Assertiveness
- Empathy
- Active Listening
- Self-Esteem
- Emotional Management in Group Relationships
- The Negotiator's Personality
- Negotiation Skills
- Personal Preparation Before a Negotiation
- Characteristics of the Negotiator
- Types of Negotiators
- Ethics and Values in a Negotiator's Behavior
- Techniques of Persuasion and Influence
- Psychology in Negotiation
- Perception and Cognitive Biases in Negotiation
- Nonverbal Behavior and Its Interpretation
- Causes of Workplace Stress
- Symptoms of Work-Related Stress
- Consequences of Workplace Stress
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