Download or read book Lateral Approach to Managing Projects written by Ho Wing Sit and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lateral Approach Series is about powerful management principles that produce results and bring out the best in people. A Lateral Approach, like a good pair of polarized shades, enhances conventional wisdom by applying new perspectives to common, day-to-day challenges.

Download or read book Lateral Approach to Creating Success written by Ho Wing Sit and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lateral Approach Series is about powerful management principles that produce results and bring out the best in people. A Lateral Approach, like a good pair of polarized shades, enhances conventional wisdom by applying new perspectives to common, day-to-day challenges.

Download or read book Managing Sensitive Projects written by Olivier D'Herbemont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, managers must adapt to rapidly changing markets and situations. This book deals with sensitive or difficult projects, ranging from redundancy programs to disposal of radioactive waste, from the launch of a new product to the introduction of a new computer system. The authors use a revolutionary way to manage sensitive projects--the lateral approach. Derived from twenty years' experience working with managers, the lateral approach is a flexible and non- confrontational method that introduces change through an understanding of how people think and act. While communities and organizations often resist change even though they will benefit from it, this approach shows how projects can be successfully managed.

Download or read book Project Management written by David Richard Moore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organisation structure can make or break the project manager... New forms of organisation are emerging in the construction industry – from partnering to virtual teams. There is a growing need to consider project organisational structures carefully. This book differs from the many other texts on project management by concentrating on the challenges of devising relevant structures for project management. It examines the diverse factors to be considered when determining an initial overall organisation for new construction projects. It also looks at how to vary the organisation in response to the differing environments over the lifetime of a project. In a pragmatic, accessible style, the author has both added to the body of knowledge in this area and provided the project management with a set of effectivemanagement tools to: examine the criteria for designing structures within an organisation identify the factors relevant to the development of an initial project organisation structure assess the significance of an individual factor in the operation of a structure

Download or read book Stakeholder led Project Management Second Edition written by Louise M. Worsley and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a stakeholder-centered analysis of projects and explains which identification, analysis, communication, and engagement models are relevant to different types of projects. If stakeholders matter, then they must make a difference in the way we plan structure and execute projects. Do they matter on your projects? This book provides a stakeholder-centered analysis of projects and explains which identification, analysis, communication, and engagement models are relevant to different types of projects: from an office move to IT enterprise change to transformational business change and complex social change. Using case studies from around the world, it illustrates what goes wrong when stakeholders are not engaged successfully and what lessons we can learn from these examples. In this second edition, we also look at the impact of Agile practices on the stakeholder management process. What changes in approach can we anticipate, and what practices must continue regardless of the product development life cycle adopted? Key models introduced include: Role-based and agenda-based stakeholders; The stakeholder-neutral to stakeholder-led project continuum; The extended stakeholder management process; Purposeful communication—the six whys model for communication; The principles of stakeholder engagement; Stakeholder engagement in an agile world.

Download or read book Project Management Multiplicity written by Jan Pries-Heje and published by Samfundslitteratur. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives on Projects written by Rodney J. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Projects describes the full range of skills a project manager must develop. By grouping these skills into nine schools and developing a metaphor for each approach, students and managers alike are better able to apply the theory in developing a strategy for managing their project.

Download or read book Aspects of Complexity written by Terry Cooke-Davies and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complexity in projects may be one of those things that are difficult to define, but easy to recognize when encountered. Or maybe not so easy. This collection of analyses deals with complexity in a way that will appeal to both academics and practitioners. It arises from a series of four academic-business roundtables sponsored by the Project Management Institute in the U.S., Australia, Malta, and Brazil. Researchers will appreciate the academic rigor of the content and practitioners will appreciate the generally reader-friendly style and tone. The opening chapter offers that elusive definition and provides the foundation for common understanding. The next four chapters compose the theoretical portion of the book, establishing the underpinning concepts related to systems thinking, systems engineering, chaos or complexity theory, and behavioral and cognitive aspects. The remainder of the book is more practice-oriented. It is a serious attempt to pull together what is currently known and understood about the topic, to help practitioners and their managers improve future practice, and to guide research into answering those questions that will best help to improve understanding of the topic.

Download or read book Management of Global Construction Projects written by Edward Ochieng and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook of its kind, taking a uniquely global approach to project management in construction. Using a wealth of case studies from around the world to explain theory and practice, the authors take a business-oriented, decision-making approach to project management and the challenges it faces in the modern world. The book covers topics highly relevant to the challenges and opportunities currently facing the global construction industry, including managing culturally-diverse and globally dispersed teams, international project finance and global stakeholders in projects. Management of Global Construction Projects is essential reading for both students of construction management and professionals looking to understand construction project management in a truly global context.

Download or read book Gower Handbook of Project Management written by Rodney Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook was the first APM Body of Knowledge Approved title for the Association for Project Management. Over the course of five editions, Gower Handbook of Project Management has become the definitive desk reference for project management practitioners. The Handbook gives an introduction to, and overview of, the essential knowledge required for managing projects. The team of expert contributors, selected to introduce the reader to the knowledge and skills required to manage projects, includes many of the most experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners. The Fifth Edition has been substantially restructured. All but two of the authors are new, reflecting the fast-changing and emerging perspectives on projects and their management. The four sections in the book describe: ¢ Projects, their context, value and how they are connected to organizational strategy; ¢ Performance: describing how to manage the delivery of the project, covering scope, quality, cost, time, resources, risk and sustainability ¢ Process: from start up to close down ¢ Portfolio: the project and its relationship to the organization The discrete nature of each chapter makes this Handbook a wonderful source of advice and background theory that is easy to consult. Gower Handbook of Project Management is an encyclopaedia for the discipline and profession of project management; a bible for project clients, contractors and students.

Download or read book The Microwave Way to Software Project Management written by Bas de Baar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Microwave Way to Software Project Management takes you on a fast, entertaining and essential tour through the jungle software project managers can and will walk in to. For a lot of readers one conclusion still comes as a big surprise: doing projects is a peoples business. It's all about keeping everyone involved in the project happy by supporting their stakes. The trouble with stakes is, no one tells you what they are. You have to guess, negotiate, anticipate and manipulate to get passed the requirements directly through the fears and wishes of people. Software project management is more about psychology than technology. This book presents how in the real world of enterprises the 'traditional' techniques of project management, like Gantt-charting, can be used as communications techniques to keep some persons happy. The Microwave Way is not about knowing you have a deadline, but about how to move it. Naming a date is easy, telling you cannot make it, is the real job.

Download or read book Handbook of Social Impact Assessment and Management written by Frank Vanclay and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This carefully conceived Handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the field of social impact assessment (SIA), highlighting contemporary understandings and emerging issues in this continually evolving area of research and practice. Experienced SIA practitioners from around the world share their learnings and advice on a comprehensive range of issues faced in social performance practice.

Download or read book Project Oriented Leadership written by Ralf Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the perspective of delivering successful projects, the value of a skilled project sponsor and project manager outweighs many other factors. Projects need leaders who can give them vision, identity, keep the stakeholders and the project team on board and make the difficult decisions that will enable the project to continue (or, if necessary, be terminated). These are human skills that don't necessarily feature large in the project management bodies of knowledge. Ralf Müller and Rodney Turner's Project-Oriented Leadership explains the key leadership models of managerial, intellectual and emotional leadership and shows how they can be applied within projects to lead processes, functions and people, and ensure an ethical and inclusive approach within projects and programs.

Download or read book System Based Vision For Strate written by Franco Bontempi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective of conference is to define knowledge and technologies needed to design and develop project processes and to produce high-quality, competitive, environment- and consumer-friendly structures and constructed facilities. This goal is clearly related to the development and (re)-use of quality materials, to excellence in construction management and to reliable measurement and testing methods.

Download or read book Event Project Management written by Mohamed Salama and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a unique lens for studying event project management in the era of sustainability, digital transformation, smart cities and rapid development in technology. It discusses and explains how to manage events utilising the sustainable project management model adapted to the specific context of event management.

Download or read book Handbooks of Management Accounting Research 3 Volume Set written by Christopher S. Chapman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association notable contribution to Management Accounting Literature AwardVolume One of the Handbook of Management Accounting Research series sets the context for the Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings.Volume Two provides insights into research on different management accounting practices. Volume Three features contributions from some of the most influential researchers in various areas of management accounting research, consolidates the content of volumes one and two, and concludes with examples of management accounting research from around the world.Volumes 1, 2 and 3 are also available as individual product. * ISBN Volume 1: 978-0-08-044564-9* ISBN Volume 2: 978-0-08-044754-4* ISBN Volume 3: 978-0-08-055450-1 - Three volumes of the popular Handbooks of Management Accounting Research series now available in one complete set - Examines particular management accounting practices and specific organizational contexts - Adopts a global perspective of management accounting practice - Award: "Winner of the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association notable contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award."

Download or read book Problem Solving written by Howard Eisner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem-solving and better thinking skills are among the top skills that employers are looking for. This book presents various methods of problem-solving that can be adapted to any field. It focuses on a set of a dozen new approaches with an ending result to finding better solutions to problems that you may have previously found difficult. The book discusses problem-solving based upon new thinking skills and presents the relationship between problem-solving and creativity. A connection between problem-solving and re-engineering is presented as the book explores the ability to tackle new and difficult problems in all aspects of life. It points you in the direction of how to easily find better solutions to problems that previously were found to be difficult. Target audience is general engineers, systems engineers, scientists, technologists, mathematicians, and lawyers.