Assessment school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

This course addresses the need for risk management and mitigation in offshore projects. Coursework helps students identify inherent risks of global outsourcing, as well as examines risk areas such as technology, organizational assets, business continuity planning and global business. Students are introduced to risk analysis techniques and mitigation strategies, and then apply these to an offshore case study project.

This course examines principles, procedures, methods, and applications of environmental impact assessment. The goal of the course is to promote an understanding of how environmental impact assessment is conducted and used as a valuable tool in the engineering project management decision-making process. Topics include an overview of environmental impact assessment; selection of scientific, engineering, and socioeconomic factors in environmental impact assessment; identification of quantitative an...

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Learn audit methods to determine if improvement actions are adding valued, how to audit process performance for improved efficiency, and for assessment techniques for generating new improvement ideas to support six sigma, lean, TQM, ISO 9001 and other continual improvement programs. This class is for managers and auditors interested in making their continual improvement program effective and efficient. The class focuses on tactics to monitor improvement programs to ensure value-added results are...

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The field of industrial ecology includes advanced tools and methods to assist practitioners seeking to redesign and realign industrial systems and activities to be more ecologically and socially sound. Central within the field of industrial ecology is life cycle assessment (LCA), which involves systems analysis of the full range of environmental impacts, product life cycles, and supply chains. More recently, social impacts are also being addressed in life cycles and supply chains, leading to the...

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This course is designed for managers and auditors.

This course is designed to teach audit methods to determine if improvement actions are adding value, and how to audit process performance for improved efficiency. It also covers assessment techniques for generating new improvement ideas to support Six Sigma, lean, TQM, ISO 9001, and other continual improvement programs. It focuses on tactics to monitor improvement programs to ensure value-added results are achieved and sustained. An aggre...

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