Applied Workshops : at a glance

• Contain as much (or as little) theory as required based on previous formal training of participants.

• Tailored to focus on the specific organisational challenges to implementing the new skills and learning. Your organisational objectives, not generic participant objectives.

• Case studies tailored or taken directly from the clients environment

• Modules from different workshops can be combined for specific needs e.g. exec overviews.

• Improvement roadmaps’ mean all participants leave the workshop with a clear plan of how to deliver increased capability.

• Before and after support of workshops to ensure that measurable benefits are defined for the training and are seen to be achieved

• Run from 1 to 5 days depending on scope and objectives.

• Offered on a daily consulting rate basis, significantly reducing the costs compared to a ‘per delegate’ approach

More About Our Services


	Strategy and Assessment Support for strategy review and selection, plus objective insight on the current situation.

	Planning and Implementation Working with you to develop and deliver performance improvement, including. CoBit, ITIL and SEI CMMi framework implementation.

	Capability Building Ensuring your performance is sustainable.

	Management and Delivery Ensuring effective deliver of complex programmes and realising the benefits of performance improvement initiatives.

	Value Accelerators Enabling you to work smarter.

How We Can Help You

Applied Workshops

A more effective approach to capability building

Applied workshops recognise that putting the theory of a training course into practice in a real organisational context is often the most difficult thing for an individual to achieve. A major investment in formal training is valueless unless it results in increased capability that can actually be deployed to improve the business.

Applio’s approach delivers not only training but also focuses on the practical actions required to implement what has been learnt into the specific workplace.

Our current range of applied workshops include:

IT Governance

• Practical IT Governance

• Organisational Change Management for front line IT managers

• Developing and Implementing Key Performance Indicators

• Practical Sourcing Skills

• Managing the IT supply chain

• Effective Quality Management in the real world

• Supplier Management in practice

• Selecting and implementing industry frameworks

Service Management

• Practical Service Management

• Implementing ITIL in practice

• Practical Management of an Applications Management and
Support environment

• Metrics driven Service Management

• Implementing a Service Management Office

• Improving service satisfaction levels

Project and Programme Management

• Practical Project Management

• Putting PRINCE2 into practice

• Implementing an effective PMO

• Estimating in IT Services

• Moving beyond waterfall: Practical Implementation of Agile
Methods

General

• Effective Stakeholder Management

• Writing and Communication in a commercial IT environment

• Managing Technical People

• Software Process Improvement for real results