All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency. Successful outsourcing decisions have an important knowledge dimension, where the outsourcing professionals need to be supported by historical and contextual knowledge regarding their own products performance but also the performance of suppliers. Outsourcing in Manufacturing: the Knowledge Dimension explains in detail how a manager can acquire, create, transfer and use...
All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily...
Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays. "Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects" builds on conventional best practice to provide a risk-based view of current practices for planning and executing large international projects.
As economies of scale continue to drive projects to ever-higher levels of scope and complexity, new thinking about strategy and risk is required. Since major projects are highly exposed to external risks, the traditional view of predictability as something that can be mandated and...
Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays. "Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Cap...
This book is concentrating on leadership in projects, in particular project managers and their leadership responsibilities. Project leadership concerns how the project manager creates direction, progress and cooperation to ensure that the organization does the best possible job in achieving the project's goals. With both a business and a global perspective, this book presents new research on challenges in the project manager role, changes and collaboration in projects. The authors also provide insight into what it takes to deal with challenges, based on wide-ranging research in project...
This book is concentrating on leadership in projects, in particular project managers and their leadership responsibilities. Project leadership concern...
