Operational Readiness: How to Achieve Successful System Deployment

ISBN-13: 9781032336480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 124 str.

Pascal Bohulu Mabelo

Opis

This book offers a guide on how to prepare business and operational environments to safely receive and effectively utilise systems, to prevent successfully completed systems from failing to add value to their intended environment. 

Recenzje

"This book will help many people and organisations ... in a simple way, it makes the reader understand the risks of bad project management decisions and gives a complete ... understanding of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in projects." - Sergio P. Capitine, Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager at BP Mozambique

"The concept of Operational Readiness lies at the heart of systems development. Awareness of it should be maintained throughout the SDLC ... A book that is easy to read and a 'must-have' for system developers from all walks of life." - Tapiwa Bande (MEng), Managing Director of African Hard Systems (Pty) Ltd

"A comprehensive treatise on Operational Readiness ... OR and PIR Planning are indeed business activities ... operability failure may lead to business failure." - Saseka Vara, Chartered Accountant, Senior Manager at Transnet SOC

Spis treści

List of Figures,

List of Tables,

About the Author,

About this Book,

Foreword,

Acronyms,

1 Introduction,

2 Systems, Systems Engineering and Systems Thinking,

3 System Deployment and Impacts on Environment,

4 Necessity of Operational Readiness,

5 Scope of Operational Readiness,

6 Operational Readiness and Project Lifecycle,

7 Focus of Human Capital Readiness,

8 Re-engineering Business Processes,

9 Operational Readiness Implementation,

10 Post-Implementation Review,

11 Conclusion,

12 Practical Operational Readiness Applications,

12.1 Large Infrastructure Projects – Putting Empathy into Operations,

12.2 Sustainability Article (Excerpt only),

12.3 Practical Exercise No 1,

12.4 Practical Exercise No 2,

12.5 Practical Exercise No 3,

12.6 Practical Exercise No 4,

Personal Reflections,

References,

Index

O autorze

Pascal Bohulu Mabelo has more than 20 years of professional experience and possesses a wide range of technical and managerial skills pertaining to projects. He has previously served as the national chairman of Project Management South Africa (PMSA) and is a regular speaker at Project Management conferences and seminars. He promotes the application of Systems Engineering concepts to unravel complexity in Large Infrastructure Projects.