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Integrated Resource Management
 
Integrated Resource Management (previously known as CIRM) is a comprehensive training program designed to develop managerial and leadership skills. It integrates your understanding of the organization resources such as information technology, material, human resources, quality, production and supporting equipment, facilities and capital to meet organizational goals.

IRM courses are reviewed with participants and prepares them for the exam. The scheduling is flexible with 3 hours weekly sessions for 8 weeks or 3 full days of instructions. ABCAN's qualified instructors will deliver these courses at your own convenience. Please contact us if you have any questions.

 
Courses:
    Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals
    Designing Products and Processes
    Delivering Products and Services
    Identifying and Creating Demand
    Integrated Enterprise Management


 
 
Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals
Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals, the first module in the IRM curriculum, introduces the strategic fundamentals of the value-driven enterprise, the management concepts of organizational design and structure, and the basic business processes that will be covered in the IRM curriculum.

Topics include:
  • Strategic Fundamentals
  • Management Concepts
  • Business Processes
  • Support Functions
Designing Products and Processes
This module examines the systems, approaches, and strategies used by an enterprise to convert a need or innovation into a product, process, or service that meets the expectations of both the enterprise and the customer. The Designing Products and Processes module examines the activities in the design process, which include organizing and defining the design team, determining the resources needed, identifying the work to be done and the anticipated output from the work, doing the actual work, and measuring the results.

Topics include:
  • Comprehension and Translation of Requirements
  • Work Structure (Planning and Implementing a Design Project)
  • Performance Assessment of the Design Process
  • Continuous Improvement and Innovations
Delivering Products and Services
The Delivering Products and Services module expands on the concept of the value-driven enterprise, which was introduced in the Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals module. Learn how to integrate an enterprise’s systems, approaches, and strategies to make the transition from concept to product and from customer expectation to product delivery. Understand the integrated planning and control of supply chain resources and business processes — including producers, distributors, and customers — that are required to deliver products and services to customers.

Topics include:
  • Identification of the Delivery Strategy
  • Execution and Assessment
  • Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Identifying and Creating Demand
Identifying and Creating Demand presents the strategies and tactics that identify, define, and quantify customer wants and needs. It also demonstrates how to translate requirements into value-added products and services.

Topics include:
  • Marketing input to the business plan
  • Sales
  • Customer ordering and service
  • Performance measurement
Integrated Enterprise Management
Follow the relationships and interactions of functional groups working toward a common goal. This final module acts as a capstone of the whole IRM educational program. Uniting all the areas covered in the other four modules, Integrated Enterprise Management applies strategic thinking to enterprise-wide issues, such as the integration of individuals within teams, functions, and the enterprise, and the evolution of an enterprise within its environment and over time.

Topics include:
  • Personal Skills and Teamwork Necessary for the Individual to Succeed in an Integrated Enterprise
  • Making Change Happen
  • Functions and Their Integration Within the Enterprise
  • Enterprise in the Environment
  • Enterprise Through Time