This volume breaks new ground by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organizations become more dynamic and adaptable. The book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and production of high-value complex products and systems (CoPS), which have always been project-based. As well as new frameworks and management tools, it provides case studies of high-technology industries--such as...

The next installment in the When I Were . . . seriespresents moregenius historic and vintage photos of children at play, often in ways that are banned today and rightfully soTake another trip down memory lane Filled with rambunctious photos and hilarious text, you can reminisce from the safety of your own home.Take a look back at when sticks were swords and you could hang from the rooftop, atime when everyone was just a little bit less worried."