Download or read book Project Management in Extreme Situations written by Monique Aubry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start. The current high level of change and complexity confronting organizational leaders and managers requires a new approach to projects so they can be managed flexibly to embrace and exploit change. What once used to be considered extreme uncertainty is now the norm, and managing planned projects is being replaced by managing projects as they evolve. Successfully managing projects in extreme situations, such as polar and military expeditions, shows how to manage successfully projects in today’s turbulent environment. Executed under the harshest and most unpredictable conditions, these projects are great sources for learning about how to manage unexpected and unforeseen situations as they occur. This book presents multiple case studies of managing extreme events as they happened during polar, mountain climbing, military, and rescue expeditions. A boat accident in the Artic is a lesson on how an effective project manager must be ambidextrous: on one hand able to follow plans and on the other hand able to abandon those plans when disaster strikes and improvise new ones in response. Polar expeditions also illustrate how a team can use "weak links" to go beyond its usual information network to acquire strategic information. Fire and rescues operations illustrate how one team member’s knowledge can be transferred to the entire team. Military operations provide case material on how teams coordinate and make use of both individual and collective competencies. This groundbreaking work pushes the definitions of a project and project management to reveal new insight that benefits researchers, academics, and the practitioners managing projects in today’s challenging and uncertain times.
Download or read book Innovation Research and Development Management written by Patrick Gibert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s business environment, as organizations constantly seek to growth and develop through the optimization of their innovative and creative potential, understanding the critical issues and management practices in R & D is essential. This book provides a critical revaluation of the state of the art issues and concepts in R&D management. The views expressed are those of leading French researchers and professionals in this field, fed by empirical studies in national and international firms.
Download or read book Process Engineering and Industrial Management written by Jean-Pierre Dal Pont and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process Engineering, the science and art of transforming raw materials and energy into a vast array of commercial materials, was conceived at the end of the 19th Century. Its history in the role of the Process Industries has been quite honorable, and techniques and products have contributed to improve health, welfare and quality of life. Today, industrial enterprises, which are still a major source of wealth, have to deal with new challenges in a global world. They need to reconsider their strategy taking into account environmental constraints, social requirements, profit, competition, and resource depletion. “Systems thinking” is a prerequisite from process development at the lab level to good project management. New manufacturing concepts have to be considered, taking into account LCA, supply chain management, recycling, plant flexibility, continuous development, process intensification and innovation. This book combines experience from academia and industry in the field of industrialization, i.e. in all processes involved in the conversion of research into successful operations. Enterprises are facing major challenges in a world of fierce competition and globalization. Process engineering techniques provide Process Industries with the necessary tools to cope with these issues. The chapters of this book give a new approach to the management of technology, projects and manufacturing. Contents Part 1: The Company as of Today 1. The Industrial Company: its Purpose, History, Context, and its Tomorrow?, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. 2. The Two Modes of Operation of the Company – Operational and Entrepreneurial, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. 3. The Strategic Management of the Company: Industrial Aspects, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. Part 2: Process Development and Industrialization 4. Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. 5. Foundations of Process Industrialization, Jean-François Joly. 6. The Industrialization Process: Preliminary Projects, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont and Michel Royer. 7. Lifecycle Analysis and Eco-Design: Innovation Tools for Sustainable Industrial Chemistry, Sylvain Caillol. 8. Methods for Design and Evaluation of Sustainable Processes and Industrial Systems, Catherine Azzaro-Pantel. 9. Project Management Techniques: Engineering, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. Part 3: The Necessary Adaptation of the Company for the Future 10. Japanese Methods, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. 11. Innovation in Chemical Engineering Industries, Oliver Potier and Mauricio Camargo. 12. The Place of Intensified Processes in the Plant of the Future, Laurent Falk. 13. Change Management, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont. 14. The Plant of the Future, Jean-Pierre Dal Pont.
Download or read book Project Managers as Senior Executives written by Russell D. Archibald, PhD (Hon), Msc, PMP and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Managers as Senior Executives maps out a model for advancement for program and project managers and contributes new thinking on the emerging leadership of project managers as senior executives. The research is published in two volumes. Volume I—Research Results, Advancement Model, and Action Proposals presents the results and proposals from the study and Volume 2—How the Research Was Conducted: Methodology, Detailed Findings, and Analyses contains the research-oriented materials from the study.
Download or read book The Economics of Creativity written by Thierry Burger-Helmchen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the economic implication of creative individuals and firms is at the heart of the new economy and of related fields such as the economics of knowledge, the economics of science and innovation management. This book brings together a panel of theoretical and empirical contributions which address the generation of creative ideas and their transformation into products and services by firms or universities, as well as the interplay of those organizations in networks and markets. The word ‘creativity’ has been used a great deal recently in relation to efforts to recover from the global financial crisis and re-launch economic activity. Little has been added to explain how and why an economic approach of creativity is useful and necessary. It is useful to understand how the most creative people work and think, and how to foster their creative productivity. It is useful to understand how organizations integrate and exploit creative ideas. It is useful to understand how market mechanisms can handle creativity and how policies must be adapted. It is necessary in the light of the recent economic crises that made innovation, invention and creativity the basis of a new industrialization and fuel for a new economic development. This new book assesses the economic impact of creativity, defining the term and then going on to explore theoretically and practically the economic consequences of creativity through a range of themes including: creativity and evolutionary theories of technological change; creativity and organizational learning; creativity and technological policy; and creativity and economics of networks. This volume offers a rich source of inspiration and ideas for the pursuit of research which merges economic tradition and management perspectives.
Download or read book Essentials of Logistics and Management written by Francis-Luc Perret and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essentials of Logistics and Management provides a broad expertly guided investigation into the knowledge required to maximize the practice of logistics in a way that contributes to a company's growth. The text elaborates upon a conceptual framework in which the role of all stakeholders and possible logistics are analyzed in a systematic approach that explores customer relations management, interactive information support, production optimization, and operations management, as well as human resources and resource allocation. The purpose of this book is help managers employ vision and strategy in developing a methodology that identifies, evaluates, and utilizes all critical factors.
Download or read book Design Applications in Industry and Education written by S. Culley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the field's reach with new approaches to application Design Applications in Industry and Education is a collection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Engineering Design in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1981 by Workshop Design-Konstruktion, this conference has grown to become one of the field's major exchanges; one of four volumes, this book provides current insight based on the ongoing work of the field's leading engineers. Novel applications are explored with emphasis on solving barrier challenges, suggesting new avenues for implementation and expansion of engineering design's utility.
Download or read book Skills Management written by Alain Roger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing skills is at the core of Human Resources Management. Based on previous literature and realized with researchers from Magellan, the Research Center in Management of iaeLyon, Skills Management examines how skills can be analyzed at the individual and collective levels, and investigates the focus on different types of skills – including technical, soft, learning, leadership and emotional skills. The book examines how skills management is applied in various contexts and for various populations, cultures and profiles, with examples ranging from middle managers having to develop organizational skills in a changing environment, to engineers having to develop soft skills beyond their technical skills; from police officers developing emotional skills, to the new skills that are needed when a hospital introduces a new approach to shared leadership. In the concluding chapter, this book also investigates how it is sometimes difficult to focus on skills development when organization needs are focused on flexibility.
Download or read book Information Knowledge and Agile Creativity written by Stéphane Goria and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity will enlighten entrepreneurs, and is ideal for facilitating an organization’s ability to react and adapt to its environment. Creativity is a system that engenders innovation. While integral at the conception stage, it is also important before and after this phase. This book offers a collection of tools, as well as a methodology, to estimate the agility of an organization to generate and transform ideas into solutions that are not only new but also adapted to their users. To this end, this book presents strategic foresight and problem comprehension methods; tools of sharing and visual information formatting; animation tips for creativity workshops; techniques for generating ideas; and tools for visualizing and mapping ideas, information, and knowledge.
Download or read book Les syst mes d information largis Coll management et informatique written by CARLIER Alphonse and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'entreprise se construit sur sa capacité d'innovation et avec des systèmes opérationnels capables de délivrer la valeur ajoutée attendue. Les modèles de systèmes d'information doivent s'adapter rapidement aux technologies émergentes et aux besoins des clients et des utilisateurs. Cet ouvrage dresse un panorama des approches classiques et des méthodes empiriques pour les SI et propose une vision élargie qui correspond aux besoins des métiers. Il présente les différents aspects permettant de faire face aux évolutions et aux ruptures technologiques à l'aide d'une organisation optimale qui va de la gouvernance à la gestion informatique. Il expose les procédés pour introduire les nouvelles technologies de veille et d'intelligence économique tout en décrivant les macroétapes (analyse, conception, production et mise en exploitation) et l'incorporation des pratiques métiers en matière de cycle de vie. L'auteur Alphonse Carlier est ingénieur industriel et consultant en gestion et développement de projets innovants. Il intervient comme formateur sur les technologies objets, MERISE, UML2, ITILV3, ISO 20000, ISO 9001, l'administration des bases de données Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, les outils collaboratifs, les CMS et les méthodes de gestion.
Download or read book Confidence and Legitimacy in Health Information and Communication written by Ceiline Paganelli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of trust is crucial in the field of health. First, because health is indicative of particularly strong issues at the societal, regulatory, institutional or individual levels; secondly, because the boundaries between specialized information validated by legitimate instances and uncommitted information have become permeable; finally, because it appears to be central within relations between actors in the field. In this book, we propose to address the trust in terms of the information and communication phenomena that are at work in the health sector, and to look at the process of building the legitimacy of information in the health sector. health.
Download or read book Knowledge Management et Web 2 0 Outils m thodes et applications written by CARLIER Alphonse and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les sociétés accumulent un volume considérable de connaissances techniques, environnementales, sociales, économiques et fiscales. Elles doivent rester pertinentes dans l’organisation et l’exploitation de cette masse d’information, et également apprendre à collaborer avec les outils de Knowledge Management. Cet ouvrage présente une démarche originale de mise en œuvre d'un système de management des connaissances qui comprend : - l’intégration d'infrastructures et l’utilisation des ressources externes ou internes, - les architectures fonctionnelles et techniques, - les technologies du Web 2.0, - les modes de gestion des connaissances et des métadonnées, - le modèle de traitement adapté, - la circulation des flux de connaissance. Cette évolution des usages nécessite la mise en place de nouveaux modes de management dans l'entreprise afin de préparer, conduire, expliquer les actions et définir les axes stratégiques. Le but étant ici de mettre en place un système efficace de gestion des connaissances évoluant vers des offres de services applicables à toute forme d’organisation : le Knowledge Management.
Download or read book Organizational Design for Knowledge Management written by Mona Ben Chouikha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and communication technologies have increased their share of services in contemporary economic exchanges. We are witnessing a transformation of modern economies characterized by a predominant role of information and knowledge in the production of wealth. In order to make this intangible resource bear fruit, organizations are looking for ways, methods, procedures, processes and technical solutions to efficiently manage knowledge Within a framework of research into synergies and resource interdependence, organizations also rely on strategic alliances (joint venture), mergers or other legal forms of association that have an impact on knowledge management. This book explores the range of knowledge management techniques.
Download or read book Project Feasibility written by Olivier Mesly and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing technical, financial, and marketing feasibility. The goal is to identify "hidden truths" and eliminate those gray areas that jeopardize the success of a given project. The focus is on uncovering points of vulnerabilities in four key aspects of a project: People, Power, Processes, and Plan.
Download or read book Education and Research for Marketing and Quality Management in Libraries La formation et la recherche sur le marketing et la gestion de la qualit en biblioth que written by Réjean Savard and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.
Download or read book Methodological and Ontological Principles of Observation and Analysis written by François Cooren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on a plurality of beings: people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions that are part of our world. While these beings are all part of our world, they present various forms of existence. Echoing recent developments in existential anthropology, Communication as Constitutive of Organization (CCO) research, and Actor Network Theory, here scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss how they study the types of beings that have been at the core of their respective research. Reflecting on the specific mode of existence, presence and action of the being they follow, they reveal the methodological innovations they deploy in order to analyze excerpts of field notes, filmed interactions, conversations, pictures, newspapers, narratives, etc.
