GPD's innovative courses have been delivered successfully at leading corporations and universities, continuously improved through partnership with recognized leaders in project management, global business strategy, intercultural studies, and systems engineering.
This course series focuses on addressing the challenges of teamwork during complex projects.
Global initiatives present challenges -- teams with work cultures and abilities across subsystems, services, and time zones to be integrated in an overall solution. This course covers case studies and best practices cover cross-boundary product development, cross-cultural coordination, outsourcing/ offshoring, localization, and virtual teams.
Teams on complex projects struggle with uncertain future events which lead to both risks and opportunities. This course provides the systems thinking and practical techniques for teams to manage program risks working across boundaries -- functional, corporate, and cultural.
Lean management techniques, originally pioneered for production, address waste, value driven leverage of resources, coordination across work chains, and ongoing learning. This course introduces the principles of lean management and applies them to practical techniques for designing and ongoing performance of complex projects.  
Consistent with Project Management Standards (PMBOK, P2M, Prince2) and best practices across sectors and global regions, this course for non-experts establishes fundamentals of project design and management. The course can be tailored to reflect the terminology and priorities of performance for your organization.
The development of complex systems includes framing the system, it's boundaries and architecture while balancing both needs and real-world physics across diverse stakeholders and teams.  This course introduces the fundamental practices, consistent with INCOSE and other standards, for establishing and improving systems engineering by global teams.
This course explores foundations  for high performance teamwork with Japan.  Based on decades of field experience from building and managing teams in Japan and with Japanese around the world, this unique offering explores cultural underpinnings and practical techniques for teams with Japanese elements and global performance.