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The primary cause of many project failures is that responsible executives, because of their lack of knowledge in project management, fail to demand that their managers and staff properly utilize the well-proven best practices, processes, systems, and tools that are now available in this field. This book remedies this situation by providing executives at all levels with the understanding and knowledge needed to best take advantage of the power of effective project management and thereby lead and manage innovations within their enterprise. In Leading and Managing Innovation: What Every Executive Team Must Know about Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Second Edition, the authors presen...
Here are comprehensive and proven methods for organizing and successfully managing complex programs and projects. The book examines organizational and interpersonal concepts and provides a detailed, complete project planning and control system with a large number of charts, forms, illustrations, and checklists.
Jetzt erscheint der beliebte Bestseller zum Projektmanagement in der 3. aktualisierten Auflage. Er bietet topaktuellste Informationen zu den wichtigsten Themen in diesem Bereich. "Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects" bietet eine umfassende, praxisbezogene und vereinheitlichte Darstellung zum Management komplexer Programme und Projekte. Der Band beschreibt alle Aspekte beim Management komplexer Projekte sehr detailliert, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf neuen Technologien liegt. Diskutiert werden u.a. Entwicklungen im Bereich des Internet, die zunehmende Bedeutung des Projektmanagement in Unternehmen, das Streben nach immer leistungsstärkeren, integrierten Softwareanwendungen im Projektmanagement sowie der verstärkte Einsatz formalisierter Methoden zur Risikoanalyse und zur Überwachung des Projektfortschritts. Autor Russell Archibald ist ein versierter Projektmanager mit umfangreicher Erfahrung im internationalen Umfeld und in einer Vielzahl von Branchen.
The financing of modern construction projects reflects the need to address the costs and benefits of the whole life of the project. This means that end of life economics can now have a far greater impact on the planning and feasibility phases. During the project itself, decisions on construction materials and processes all influence the schedule as well as both immediate and down-the-line costs. Massimo Pica and his co-authors explain in detail the fundamentals of project life cycle economics and how they apply in the context of complex modern construction. This is an essential guide for those involved in construction project design, tendering and contracting; to help ensure the sustainabili...
In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows you how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. Using his own research and work experience he explains how and why those organizations that focus on just a few key initiatives can perform significantly better than unfocused organizations, not only financially but also in achieving their strategic objectives and motivating their staff. The author introduces a new way of looking at a company through two very different and often conflicting dimensions: running-the-business and changing-the-business. What you add to one dimension you have to subtract from the other one. Finding ...
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Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by supplying techniques to assess the value of projects, prioritize projects, and decide which projects to implement and which to postpone. In addition, it describes various methods of balancing project portfolios and different strategic alignment models. The book provides thirty real-life project portfolio management case studies from pharmaceutical, product development, financial, energy, telecommunications, not-for-profit and professional services industries.
The bestselling project management text for students and professionals—now updated and expanded This Eleventh Edition of the bestselling "bible" of project management maintains the streamlined approach of the prior editions and moves the content even closer to PMI®'s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®). New content has been added to this edition on measuring project management ROI, value to the organization and to customers, and much more. The capstone "super" case on the "Iridium Project" has been maintained, covering all aspects of project management. Increased use of sidebars throughout the book helps further align it with the PMBOK and the Project Management Professional (P...
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.