Preface
This book is for managers concerned about getting better results from the projects under way in their organizations. New projects that generate new products or services are the principal means of future organizational growth. Projects are the means to implement organizational strategy and organizational change. Projects and project managers create new products, new procedures, new reward systems, new features for old products, and new businesses. The key feature of projects is that they represent something new.
In line with the vision of virtual corporations for the twenty-first century— edgeless, adapting in real time to customers’ changing needs, interacting among multiple, often unrelated processes (Davidow and Malone, 1992)—we believe ...
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