Overview
With rapid changes in technology and increasing complexity, strong multi-disciplinary planning skills are required for today’s engineering professionals. This programme will infuse strategic planning, and market understanding in an engineer’s practice to enable one to work beyond the regular call of specialised engineering practice, and progress to working on masterplans, feasibility studies, due diligence and fatal flaw analysis for large/capital projects. This may extend beyond borders, regional and/or continental reach. Why Should an Individual Attend?
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Expand Beyond Traditional Practice: Learn to operate at a strategic level, contributing to masterplans, feasibility studies, and due diligence for large-scale, cross-border projects.
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Develop Market-Driven Thinking: Understand how to identify market opportunities and translate them into viable engineering projects with regional or continental impact.
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Master Multi-Disciplinary Planning: Gain the skills to lead and collaborate within diverse feasibility study teams, integrating technical, financial, and strategic perspectives.
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Apply Strategic Tools: Use methodologies like Business Model Canvas, Empathy Mapping, and Value Proposition Design to deliver impactful studies.
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Build Financial Modelling Expertise: Learn to construct feasibility study financial models and perform scenario and sensitivity analyses using tools like Excel.
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Strengthen Analytical Rigor: Acquire the ability to critically assess feasibility studies, identify key assumptions, and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
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Communicate with Clarity and Influence: Present complex ideas and findings in a simple, convincing, and objective manner to stakeholders and decision-makers.
Outcomes
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
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Understand market requirements and identify opportunities that translate to projects.
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Understand the project development cycle from idea formation to operations.
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Specify strategic tools used to deliver objectives.
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Be a part of and guide a multi-disciplinary (Feasibility) Study team.
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Incorporate Design Thinking and other new strategic methodologies including Business Model Canvas, Empathy and Value Proposition to deliver studies.
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Specific Skills in planning feasibility studies:
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Plan, prepare and analyse feasibility studies.
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Identify crucial arguments and effectively explore the various assumptions.
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Present ideas in a simple, effective, convincing and objective manner.
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Build a feasibility study financial model using various tools, such as Open and Microsoft Excel.
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Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to improve plans and projections.
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Analyse someone else’s feasibility study, and identify its merits and shortcomings.
Program Outline
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Planning Capital Projects.
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Engineering Projects Life Cycle.
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Due Diligence / Fatal Flaw Analysis, Master Plans.
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Risk Management.
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Strategic Market Research, Segmentation and Analysis.
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Understanding Basic Concepts of Finance.
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Capacity Planning.
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Engineering Analysis.
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Systems Engineering Principles.
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Pre and Bankable Feasibility Studies.
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Capital Costs and Operational Modelling.
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Investment Appraisal Analysis.
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Multiple Scenario Options Analysis.
Who Should Attend?
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Engineers
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Technicians
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Technologists
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Architects
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Project / Construction Managers
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Quantity Surveyors
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Contractors / Sub Contractors
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Executives / Senior Management
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Middle Management
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Administrators / Support Staff
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