Project management is a system originally developed within the construction industry for controlling schedules, costs, and specifications of large multitask projects. In recent years, manufacturers have discovered that project management's time-tested techniques dovetail neatly with the current thinking on quality control and management in a highly competitive global marketplace. The system has been increasingly recognized for its suitability in the manufacturing process and is now applied in virtually every area of production.

One of the foremost proponents of this trend is Adedeji...

This volume has grown largely out of the author's experience of developing and teaching courses in managing technological innovation-entrepreneurship to business, engineering and science students. It provides a dynamic framework within which managers from virtually any professional background can develop efficient, highly productive work systems guaranteed to maximize a high-tech firm's competitive edge.

Reviews basic techniques used to evaluate investments and make decisions about the acquisition of capital projects, in both industry and the private sector. The text then progresses to the construction of facilities, the installation and operation of machinery and control techniques.

This book shows the reader how to improve decision-making skills in realistic situations and how to do it in a reasonably non-mathematical fashion. The author develops practical techniques for deciding upon the best strategies in a variety of situations. He provides methods for reducing complex problems to easily-drawn decision diagrams (trees), and supports them with real-life examples. Detailed cases that employ the methods described in the text are included, and each chapter contains illustrated examples and exercises. The text will be of interest to managers and students of engineering...