Book description
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects faillargely because conventional project management concepts cannot adapt to a dynamic business environment. Moreover, top managers neglect their company's project activity, and line managers treat all their projects alikeas part of operations. Based on an unprecedented study of more than 600 projects in a variety of businesses and organizations around the globe, Reinventing Project Management provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects to achieve superior business results.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: A NEW MODEL FOR MANAGING PROJECTS
- PART TWO: THE FOUR BASES OF SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
- PART THREE: PUTTING THE DIAMOND APPROACH TO WORK
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RESEARCH APPENDIXES
- 1. Our Research Steps
- 2. Project Success Assessment Questionnaire
- 3A. Building the Contingency Approach to Project Management
- 3B. Project Classification Questionnaire
- 3C. Principles and Design of Classification Systems
- 4. Project Novelty and Traditional Project Management
- 5A. Empirical Results for Project Technology
- 5B. Project Technology and Traditional Project Management
- 6A. Empirical Results for Project Complexity
- 6B. Project Complexity and Traditional Project Management
- 7. Project Pace and Traditional Project Management
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: Reinventing Project Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2007
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422163474
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