Service Orientation

Combining skills and knowledge with the selection and application of various tools.

Professionalism speaks to many things, especially competence, integrity and consistency.
At Artizan Project Management, we aspire to blend art with professionalism in the practice of project management.

Whether you seek a reliable consult, expert advice or a competent lead for your small or large project, Artizan Project Management has the professional resources to help you effectively attain your needs and your goals.

Service Areas

We define our services by timeliness, accuracy, and whenever needed – innovation. Perspective can simultaneously be holistic and granular. Being able to articulate a vision informed from both perspectives often results in comprehensive solutions and richer outcomes.

Healthcare
Industry

Commercial
Management

Operational
Tools

Training and
Coaching

Change
Management

Portfolio
Management

Current & Past Projects

One factor common through all of our experience, is that each project deserves to succeed.

The Principals of Artizan Project Mgmt Ltd have years in the practice of professional project management. We enjoyed the rewards of completion and goal attainment. In our combined experience we managed complex, large-budget, multi-facility projects, international projects, and single-site, small budget projects. Our community projects have also been enriching and rewarding.

Product Commercialization
Capital Equipment
Patient Flow
Health Processes
Management Information Systems
LMS Deployment
GRC Projects
Portfolio Management
Change Management

Artizan Team

In combination, sound planning, adept leadership and committed team members are ingredients which may contribute to greater successes for an already successful project. Recognition of even the smallest contributions may help establish a performance-oriented project team, as well as lead the team to successes which lay beyond the project’s aims.

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson, PMP, MScMgmt
Co-President/Project Management

Grant Rowson

Grant Rowson, CPA, CGA, CITP, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP
Co-President/Project Management

Testimonial

Our project goal is to commercialize novel technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease and to establish the associated clinical pathways. Our project is comprised of a diverse group of strategic partners.

We knew the project would face tremendous challenges: Regulatory approval, clinical research, product engineering, code writing, and technological development.

To lead, support and integrate our project, we turned to Dave Johnson. Thru Dave's professional expertise and his skillful management of multiple priorities, the project is successfully attaining each of its goals, all while we are building a capable and cohesive project team.

www.marizyme.com
Dave Barthel
Dave BarthelCEO, Marizyme, Inc
Artizan Project Management

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Healthcare Industry

Healthcare is as broad as it is highly nuanced. Given their comprehensive experience, both Grant and Dave have a clear understanding of the context and inherent depth for any health-related project.

Commercialization Management

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Operational Tools

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Training and Competencies Coaching

As professional educators at the college and university level, the Artizan team can customize and/or individualize an appropriate coaching package. Among many options, we could works to improve and reinforce knowledge and performances, facilitate skill development through performance feedback, and via specific suggestions for improvement to build confidence and enhance competencies and project management skill sets.

Change Management

Whether you are in the early stages of planning, have already begun your change execution, or have encountered some challenges during your change process, members of the Artizan Team possess those skills to quickly engage and bring appropriate solutions.

The right intervention can certainly be timely, as we quickly mobilize to gather what we need to develop and implement that approach. With insight gleaned from organizational metrics, and/or performance metrics, you will know clearly what is the level of your solution’s success, or possibly what may remain outstanding so you may bring further solutions.

Portfolio Management

As an element of leadership, Portfolio Management can simultaneously achieve each of these goals:

  1. Align business strategy to project goals
  2. Improve and justify project selection(s)
  3. Comprehensively inform business decisions
  4. Bring clarity, and facilitate oversight throughout your business environment
  5. Optimize resource utilization
  6. Minimize risks, while maximizing business impacts
  7. Deliver all projects on time and in budget
  8. Yield an enhanced ROI
  9. Boost productivity, while enhancing team collaboration

Research to Product Commercialization

Complexity is an inherent aspect of commercialization efforts. Technology validation, regulatory approval, and market acceptance may be primary considerations. Meanwhile, the project team may be considering their needs related to product engineering, software development, and clinical trials.

Capital Equipment Procurement & Installation

What may seem to be a straight forward process often involves a host of details that must be duly considered. Planning for such projects may require minimal or full avoidance of operational impacts. Installations often need be seamless, while staff training is completed in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Systems integration may be a critical success factor for such a project, as various interdependencies may add to a project’s complexity.

Patient Flow Improvement

From the start, efforts to improve patient flow are characterized by elevated dependencies which may be deeply embedded into the fabric of daily functions and operations. Even at the fundamental levels, pessimism and cynacism may need to be overcome before the real work may begin.

Sound planning, communications, and engagement are some of the critical success factors for any patient flow improvement effort.

Health Process Implementation

New processes are often conceived to bring the promise of excellence and effectivess into daily operations. The requirements to integrate and establish a new process may differ from those requirements to maintain it.

Planning, communications and engage are among the critical success factors for health process implementations.

Management Information Systems Deployment

MIS deployment often needs “client-side” project management experience to ensure proper resource alignment, congruance with strategic goals, and a capacity to establish performance metrics. Key to success in these projects may be purpose definition and the establishment of a methodology which fulfill the aims in a proficient manner.

Leadership Management Systems (LMS) Deployment

Strategic governance relies upon tools, such as balanced score cards and key-performance indicators. Implementation of LMS requires experience with human resource development, financial management, key operational dependencies, and service delivery/expectation management of customers or clients. In support of project efforts, purpose needs to be defined along with the commitment to document the composition of the LMS elements. Documentation informs accountability and serves to prompt excellence and align performance.

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Projects

With increased accountability and enterprise risk management needs, both public sector and private organizations want their change projects to support the direction of Boards of Directors and Senior Management. Organizations today face a plethora of legal and regulatory obligations, covering everything from privacy, cybersecurity, operational compliance, medical process, industry requirements, strategic governance, among others.

Portfolio Management

Strategic selection, prioritization, integration, optimization, assignment and monitoring capacities are among the key aspects of portfolio management. Decision support, proactivity, response planning, risk management and intervention effectiveness can each be made effective through skillful portfolio management.

Change Management

Successful change management is achieved through five (5) essential steps:

  1. Change purpose and goal setting
  2. Benefit definition
  3. Planning, preparation, and role clarity
  4. Execution
  5. Concurrent enablement and/or emergent response and appropriate intervention.

Change is often nuanced, and can challenge even well-laid plans and the best leaders.

Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson has more than 12 years of project management experience in healthcare and the private sector. His projects include product development to commercialization, patient flow improvement, automated medication dispensing systems, executive dashboard development, various process improvements, capital procurement and technical installation, as well as health research. Dave’s more significant projects have been international, multi-site (corporate) and/or pan-provincial.

Outside of his active projects, the Faculty of Business at Lakehead University has regularly engaged Dave as one of their Sessional Lecturers. Since the Summer semester of 2019, Dave has delivered a variety of Masters and Undergraduate courses, including: Organizational Design & Analysis, Organizational Behavior, MBA Capstone, Project Management.

In his spare time, Dave enjoys much of what the Thunder Bay Region has to offer as an avid hiker, kayaker, and switches to snowshoeing during the Winter months. Dave is also a local volunteer with Ducks Unlimited.

Grant Rowson

Grant Rowson started with project management work in 1992, designing and installing accounting systems for small and mid-sized organizations.  This work grew into increasingly complex and diverse project work, including other functional areas in Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and broadening into health care, data analytics, decision support, and governance/risk/compliance systems. He has worked with software programmers, network engineers, cybersecurity consultants, supply-chain management and various health care professionals in carrying out compliance and transformation projects.

Currently, Grant is an accountancy instructor with Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s School of Business (2021-) and a part-time professor with Confederation College (since 1994). In both cases, teaching courses primarily in management accounting, management information systems, auditing, and various other business-related courses. For several years, he conducted various professional development seminars for information technology trends for the former Certified General Accountants Association of Ontario and authored the technology column within their professional magazine between 1995 until 2014.

Currently, Grant is a board member of ISACA’s Regina, Saskatchewan Chapter, and assists both the Moose Jaw and District Chamber of Commerce and the City of Moose Jaw with various economic development initiatives. Also, he’s a life member of Thunder Bay, Ontario’s Fort William Male Choir.