10 Copyright 2008 AMS http://www.amsconsulting.com Management Consultants 148 88 http://www.amsconsulting.com/ http://www.amsconsulting.com/Logos/AMS-Logo.gif en-us Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:30:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/mediafiles/globalization.mp3 <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/AboutUs/Phil-Ventresca-Bio-Pic.jpg"left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>An interactive recoding of this week's featured article written by Principal Founder and CEO, Phil Ventresca, speaking about the consideration and impact points a global leader faces. Globalization, Cultural Intelligence (CQ), Diversity, Multicultural, Multinational… and the list of descriptors goes on. Businesses today are struggling with establishing a true identity in an ever changing global market. Whether they have revenue generating businesses outside of their domestic geography or utilize teams and resources in a virtual configuration, the bottom-line is that most are feeling the pain of becoming global.</p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:30:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PDFArticles/DNAofaGlobalLeader.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/AboutUs/Phil-Ventresca-Bio-Pic.jpg"left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>This week's featured article written by Principal Founder and CEO, Phil Ventresca, speaking about the consideration and impact points a global leader faces. Globalization, Cultural Intelligence (CQ), Diversity, Multicultural, Multinational… and the list of descriptors goes on. Businesses today are struggling with establishing a true identity in an ever changing global market. Whether they have revenue generating businesses outside of their domestic geography or utilize teams and resources in a virtual configuration, the bottom-line is that most are feeling the pain of becoming global.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:30:00 EST http://bit.ly/e4Al2q <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/SolutionSuites/ProjectManagement/BestPractice/IS300%20Chess%20BW.jpg"left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>New Virtual Classroom Topic - Execution Planning. Register: http://bit.ly/e4Al2q</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:45:00 EST http://bit.ly/cgurqi <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944003694-443.jpg"left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Our consulting solutions will enhance your organization's Critical Business Skills.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:00 EST http://bit.ly/8ZuLJE <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944077214-443.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>View our catalog to see our portfolio of Critical Business Skills Training Programs.</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 1:45:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/Assessments/CBSAOverview.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/DiversitySeniors.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS launches new Critical Business Skills Assessment. A self-assessment designed to assess an individual's competencies in Critical Business Skill topic areas that allow you to contribute to the overall effectiveness of your organization. Take the assessment today!</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PIE%20System/PIESystemBP.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/PIE%20System/PIESystem.png" align="left" height="150" width="157" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS launches a new, client-focused engagement model: The PIE System. The AMS PIE System is a scalable and consistent service delivery model to deploy our consulting, training and assessment solutions. The PIE approach incorporates best practices, measurability and quality control elements to ensure our clients recognize sustainable ROI and results.</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:00:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/SolutionSuites/BusinessDevelopment/BusinessDevelopmentSolutionSuite.html <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/3%20at%20jet.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Business Development is a critical way in which organizations can work to set themselves apart from other organizations, we have developed many consulting best practices to help organizations gain a competitive edge. Our Business Development training programs are focused on teaching participants the important of competitive advatage and ways in which they can help to achieve it for their organization.</p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:30:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PDFArticles/EnterpriseViewoftheBARole.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/3%20in%20meeting.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Read this #BusinessAnalysis article by our Principal Consultant, John Slack to discover the dangers produced from the lack of enterprise analysis prior to the project.</p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:45:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PDFArticles/BusinessAnalyst(BA)TheStrategicImplications.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/Assessments.jpg" align="left" height="120" width="120" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Check out one of this week's featured BA articles, "Business Analyst (BA): The Strategic Implications" written by CEO/Founder, Phil Ventresca. </p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:10:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/WebLiveTraining.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/VCIconLarge.gif" align="left" height="100" width="66" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS Virtual ClassroomSM events are a convenient way to experience direct interaction with a senior consultant without the costs associated with travel to off-site locations and public training venues. This convenient method of attending training is cost effective while still offering all of the benefits of face-to-face delivery. AMS has created best practices for delivering virtual training that will set the industry standard through our "bring the classroom on-line" approach, affording participants the ability to interact with the presenter and even network with other students. Through the combination of live blogs, controlled VoIP and live audio/video webcasting within the training portal, we are able to effectively simulate the classroom learning experience. </p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 31 Aug 2009 15:10:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/TrainingPrograms/BestPractice/BlendedLearningSolutionBP.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/TrainingPrograms/BestPractice/BlendedModelweb.jpg" align="left" height="100" width="127" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS Blended Learning Solutions (BLS) allows organizations to take advantage of the most effective means to access knowledge within their individual corporate setting. In response to the fact that companies and individuals are beginning to "learn differently" as well as having a heightened awareness around the costs associated with on-site training, AMS has created BLS to address the challenges associated with today’s dynamic work environment. Any one or all of the following delivery vehicles can be combined to create a fully customized learning experience. </p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 19 Sept 2008 14:50:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFBestPracticePOS/TrainingPrograms/AMSBPSelf-PacedOn-lineTraining.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/2%20meet%20at%20computer.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS is proud to announce that our firm will be partnering with Blackboard, via the company's corporate solution platform called ProSites. Blackboard is the leading provider of on-line learning solutions with a global network to ensure the best customer service and technical support throughout the learning experience. </p><br clear="all"/> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:50:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFBestPracticePOS/TrainingPrograms/AMSBPLiveOn-lineTraining.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/Globecomps.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS Live On-line Training events are a convenient way to experience direct interaction with a Sr. Consultant without the costs associated with travel to off-site locations and public training venues. This convenient method of attending training is cost effective while still offering all of the benefits of face-to-face delivery.</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:50:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFCourseDescriptions/AMS109-DistressedProjects-PreventionAndInterventionStrategies-Description.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/PM%20Consulting.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS offers new training program entitled Preventing and Recovering Distressed Projects. This course addresses the initiation, analysis, organizational culture issues, recovery and control of distressed project efforts; focusing on where the project is in relation to its original goals/targets, realigning the project objectives and team (with the least amount of opposition and angst), and building a sound execution and control strategy to solidify the project’s recovery and completion.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:20:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFArticles/RecoveringDistressedProjectsP1.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/2%20meet%20at%20computer.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>This new article release was written by one of our senior consultants with 30 years of experience in the industry. You can also find this article published in the PM Times. Over the past few years, assignments involving “distressed projects” have been frequent…far too frequent for the maturing state of corporate project management. Requests to “recover” a project that has strayed into the territory called “distressed” usually come complete with a “hair’s on fire” urgency to locate and solve issues including emotional distress, protectionism, and a myriad of other valid reasons for the current condition. Amidst the chaos and high-emotion, the project must be assessed without prejudgment or bias, and lead to a path of recovery. This two-part series will deal with a consulting life-cycle approach to uncovering issues that have contributed to the distressed condition and recovering as many of the project’s original objectives and expectations as possible. Distressed projects have no industry preference; they are equal opportunity employers. Therefore, the practices discussed here are applicable to all industry types.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:20:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PDFCourseDescriptions/AMS1021-PPMC-Description.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944003694-443.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Welcome to the AMS Professional Project Management Certificate (PPMC), the industry’s most dynamic, comprehensive and experiential-based Project Management training track. By leveraging our years of project management consulting experience and intellectual property, we have compiled what organizations and professionals most frequently request for training within the project management practice in one catalog. </p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 28 May 2008 1:00:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/Consulting/Consulting.htm#Business_Analysis <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Globe%20Jig%20Saw%20Solutions.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>By leveraging our experience and intellectual property, we have compiled what organizations and professionals most frequently request for training within the BA practice in one catalog. The PBAC is made up of a front-end BA assessment and core/ elective training programs that are mapped against the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBATM), Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) and the AMS inventory of BA competencies. </p><br clear="all"/> Tue, 13 May 2008 2:55:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/PDFWhitePapers/SuccessStrategiesForTheFemaleProjectManager-WhitePaper.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/globe%20meeting.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>There is ample evidence to suggest a labor shortage is on the horizon for the United States. Add this to the fact that surveys continue to show a project failure rate near 70%, and it becomes clear that businesses that fail to implement broad-based programs to attract, nurture and retain all of their human resources will find it more difficult to accomplish their missions. The glass ceiling is discussed regarding women in non-traditional jobs, especially female project managers. </p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EST http://www.amsconsulting.com/BusinessAnalysis/BusinessAnalysis.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Globe%20Jig%20Saw%20Solutions.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS is developing a test prep program for the CBAP exam. As Endorsed Education Providers we will offer you IIBA PDU credits. You will also benefit from the senior level advice and real world experience that comes from the instructors of this program as well as the information you will get from the course itself. </p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:15:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/RSSPodcast/livemeeting.wmv <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944077214-443.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>The new role of the BA is far more strategic in both the organizational sense as well as at the project level. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the BA when appropriately leveraged represents a liaison between business, project and customer teams. </p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:45:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/WebLiveTraining.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://www.amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Looking%20out%20to%20horizon.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS offers new Live Web Training program on Contract Management. This course aligns with the Process Management area of the PMBoK® and focuses on providing an overview of how to establish effective relationships with vendors and ensure continuous improvement in vendor performance. </p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:06:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/WebLiveTraining.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Man%20look%20over%20North%20America.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS will be sponsoring this 1 hour webinar as an addition to their Free Speaker Series. One of the dangers of any project is that we optimize a given process within a specific department and sub-optimize the operation of the overall organization. This potential for sub-optimization has long been recognized in construction. Their principles to avoid error are available to us in other disciplines, but we don’t frequently use them. Architects use the intent of the overall structure to guide the design of the structure’s components. If the building owner decides to ignore, or is ignorant of, the overall architecture, he can install a change that has temporary success but long-term failure. Business Architecture espouses a set of techniques to capture overall intent and integrate local operations within that intent. This session will give an overview of this approach. </p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/WebLiveTraining.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Looking%20out%20to%20horizon.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>This course prepares participants for the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) exam, 2005 edition by examining knowledge gaps through the review of the five core process areas.  Attendees will participate in a review of questions  and scenarios directed at the PMBoK's nine knowledge areas likely to be encountered during the test. This course is also an excellent refresher for individuals who wish to review core project management principles. </p><br clear="all"/> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:50:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFCourseDescriptions/AMS275-CallCenterPerfMgmtDescription.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944077214-443.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>From a leadership perspective, call center directors and VPs need to be reminded that the call center organizations that they lead and manage represent a critical component of the company’s business model and is a direct interface with the company’s customers, thereby requiring a consistent world class customer care effort in either or both customer service and sales transactions. Therefore, vigorously applying the latest in call center management software applications to produce optimum call center performance results can become a competitive advantage. And though it may present itself as an obstacle to those who are looking for a quick fix seminar (or the famous magic wand approach), understanding the added value of using modern call center software applications that are designed to track and report performance levels of individual agents, teams of agents and of the entire call center is an essential commitment for every call center manager.</p><br clear="all"/> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:40:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/Consulting/Consulting.htm#Business_Analysis <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/Adobe%20ID%20099ASP944003694-443.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS understands that the Business Analysis (BA) competency is more than a systems related function and that in order to deploy best practices in this area an organizational perspective is imperative. The AMS portfolio of services takes a holistic and solutions based approach to the challenges organizations face when developing their BA processes and skill sets. Our team of executive level consultants have years of hands on experience dealing with cross-corporate communications, requirements gathering, systems analysis, process mapping, best practice methods and business consulting in all industries. AMS will partner with your organization to design a customized consulting, training or assessment program focused on empowering your BA function. </p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:50:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/AMSInteractive/WebinarLiveTraining/WebLiveTraining.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Man%20look%20over%20North%20America.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS Webinars and Live Web Training events are a convenient way to experience direct interaction with a Sr. Consultant without the costs associated with travel to off-site locations and public training venues. This convenient method of attending training is cost effective while still offering all of the benefits of face-to-face delivery. AMS has created best practices for delivering virtual training that will set the industry standard through our "bring the classroom on-line" approach, affording participants the ability to interact with the presenter and even network with other students. Through the combination of live blogs, controlled VoIP and live audio/video webcasting within the training portal we are able to effectively simulate the classroom learning experience.</p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:30:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PublicTraining/publicdates.htm <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/IS300%20Looking%20out%20to%20horizon.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>Advanced Management Services, Inc. (AMS) schedules Public Training events that offer business professionals an opportunity to participate in highly interactive programs facilitated by some of the industries most sought after experts via open enrollment offerings. This convenient way of attending training is cost effective for the individual while still offering all of the benefits of on-site delivery. AMS prides itself on the quality of our facilitators and depth of material content. All programs are highly interactive, experience based and will render immediately usable skill enhancements, methods and best practices. </p><br clear="all"/> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:14:00 EST http://amsconsulting.com/PDFBestPracticePOS/ProjectManagement/AMSBPProjectQuickStart.pdf <p><a href="http://amsconsulting.com"><img src="http://amsconsulting.com/Photos/CI_KS104664.jpg" align="left" height="77" width="108" alt="Advanced Management Services, Inc." border="0" /></a>AMS has designed the Project Quick Starts Suite in order to help clients achieve more efficiency when kicking off Project Management initiatives. Each tool has been crafted to allow for consultant/client involvement during the critical phases of a project life-cycle. This collaborative approach produces real-time knowledge transfer and sustainable results. More importantly, our clients benefit from the deliverables far beyond the scope of the joint effort. In many cases clients are able to establish best practice and leverage it on future initiatives. The Quick Starts Suite is a hybrid consulting, coaching and mentoring activity that produces immediate and repeatable success. AMS clients ranging from Fortune 100's to Government Agencies have benefited from these tools.</p><br clear="all"/> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:30:00 EST