Executive Productivity & Personal Operating Systems
Design your system for focus, energy, and leverage.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your capital programme is over budget and behind schedule again, and the executive productivity dashboard is reporting green — because it measures what is reported, not what is real. Every unrehearsed executive productivity decision becomes a claim, and every claim is settled on someone else's terms. This is where executive productivity stops being managed by slide and becomes managed by signal: earned value, constraint logic and honest milestones.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Govern executive productivity programmes so they deliver on time, cost and purpose.
- Design executive productivity delivery governance — gates, controls and escalation — that catches problems early.
- Design executive productivity contracts and risk allocation that hold under stress.
- Prove executive productivity benefits after commissioning, not just milestones before it.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
Sixty Claims and an Election Year
A national modernisation at a regional logistics group is 40% over budget and 18 months late. The contractor has filed sixty claims; the board must choose between completion, termination for default, or a negotiated reset — before an election year.
Your decision: Choose the path, the commercial posture and the message to government and lenders.
IPAT Data Lab™
A programme portfolio at a consumer-goods manufacturer cannot see which projects are quietly failing.
Dataset: Synthetic cost, schedule and quality data for a 25-project portfolio at a consumer-goods manufacturer.
Your task: Diagnose the overrun drivers, separate noise from signal, and design recovery for the worst three.
A project performance dashboard and intervention plan.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the delivery blueprint for your organisation's most important programme: governance, controls, commercial strategy and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • Stage-gate delivery governance
- • Earned value management
- • Lean and Six Sigma foundations
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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