Program Overview

Executive Master's Project Management for Business Performance & Innovation

The Executive Master's in Project Management for Business Performance and Innovation aims to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop an interdisciplinary approach to Project, Programme, and Portfolio Management to drive innovation and technological change processes in project-based organizations.

Program Structure

The programme is based on three main streams:

• The first deals with the individual competences required to cope with people, strategy, and practice in a PM context.
• The second stream is focused on the competences to successfully drive organizations to handle the "projectisation" of businesses and the economy, dealing with governance and management systems, organization of processes, managing teams and resources.
• The third stream covers the leadership needed to drive a lean journey toward Project Excellence: defining perspectives to grow people competences, how to organize processes dealing with resources, how to evaluate and promote to excellence actual projects results.

Key Information

• Application: Closed
• Time Schedule: November 2025 - June 2026
• Campus: Turin
• Duration: 8 months
• CFU/ECTS: 24
• Language: English
• Format: Part-time (one weekend per month)
• Participation Fee: € 9,000 (3 partial participation fee waivers available)
• Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Alberto De Marco
• Edition Number: 5

Program Description

The programme combines practice-specific knowledge and skills together with competences in business strategic leadership, projects portfolio governance, and soft skills required by new organizational designs. The executive master's implies a strong engagement not only with academics and lecturers but also with mentors, advisors, professionals, and established game-changing entrepreneurs and managers.

Scholarships

3 Scholarships of € 2,000 are available for the top-ranked applicants.