Sukad FZ, a Dubai Knowledge Village-based innovation centre, has tied up with RMC Project Management, to launch a variety of project management products and services in the Middle East.

The agreement was signed with RMC Project Management earlier this year and it is of strategic value to both organisations since it joins together a global power in PM training that wants to expand around the world and a regional leader who aims to provide the best and innovative products to the region (Sukad).
This agreement has enabled Sukad offer outstanding RMC Project Management courses in the Middle East starting with the highly popular PMP (Project Management Professional) Exam Prep course, with the first course already underway, says Mounir A. Ajam, CEO of Sukad.
Other topics on project management will be offered in 2007, including topics designed for executives and the highly important and often ignored Project Risk Management, says Ajam.  RMC Project Management founder and CEO Rita Mulcahy had won an award from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2004, for her best-selling Risk Management professional development suite of products.
“As founder and CEO of the most innovative project management training company in the US, I’m extremely excited to bring my company’s classes and products to the world’s fastest-growing project management markets,” says Mulcahy. “Having the opportunity to share our 15 years of training experience with the rest of the world is an immense opportunity, and we can’t wait to get started.”
 Eric Rudolf, director of marketing, says, “As RMC continues to expand its global reach, we have two primary goals: to enter areas of the world where growth in project management is still in double and even triple digits annually, and to work with companies who are already market leaders in their respective regions. By partnering with Sukad we have accomplished both.”  The PMP is a globally recognised credential granted by Project Management Institute (PMI) to those experienced professionals who meet the requirements for this professional certification. There are over 200,000 PMPs around the globe, including about 2,000 in the GCC. During his leadership role as the director of certification and education for PMI in the region, Ajam and a team of volunteers persistently promoted certification in the GCC leading to an almost tripling of the number of certified individuals in the region.
“Although there is still a high interest in certification in the area and most training providers are just copying each others, Sukad has always believed in being the leader, and to achieve such a status we cannot afford to copycat others – we wanted to be pioneers in the area and we are demonstrating that we are,” says Ajam. “We do have excellent programmes but when we wanted to offer the best in certification training, we decided to go with another outstanding leader instead of ‘recreating the wheel’. By establishing this strategic relationship with RMC Project Management, Sukad is bringing the best to the region.”
Sukad has been approved by the PMI as a Registered Education Provider. It serves as a single point of contact for total project management business solutions from project methodology and system implementation, to strategic project, programme and portfolio management services. “We can implement programme management offices at the executive organisational level and project management office at the operational and tactical level. We can perform project reviews and help assess the organisational project management maturity.
Founded by Mulcahy in 1991, RMC is the worldwide innovator in project management training and professional development. Over the last 15 years, tens of thousands of project managers in over 40 countries have utilised one of RMC’s professional development resources, classes or e-Learning courses to expand their project management knowledge and further their careers. Today, RMC offers a wide range of innovative classes and products for beginning project managers, advanced PMs, and project managers seeking an internationally recognised certification.