Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Project Management

This book was born out of the need to 'capture' the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas. Written by experts working in the USA, Holland, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Trinidad and the Czech Republic, this book seeks to locate the issue of regeneration in a context which will enable the reader to reflect upon practices which are 'local' but are shaped by international processes.

As well as proving an accessible review of the theoretical literature on globalisation and its...

"WorldCom. Enron. Tyco. Shocking accusations of dishonesty and silent complicity have dominated headlines recently, and cost the American economy trillions of dollars. Clearly, dishonesty doesn't pay.

Drawing from these stories, as well as from more positive ones, " Absolute Honesty" shows how to establish and maintain a culture where honest communication is the norm, and employees can speak openly without fear of retribution. The book illustrates the impact that truthfulness and accountability can have on organizations, attacking the sort of passivity that allows little lies to grow...

Although the nature of service delivery varies significantly from profession to profession, the way the service is delivered tends to be fairly consistent among professions or, at least, it should be. A step-by-step guide, Managing Professional Service Delivery 9 Rules for Success describes in detail how to achieve the internal discipline and control necessary to manage professional service engagements and long-term success in the professional services industry. It details engagement-tested methods for success at every step in delivering a professional service and...

If you want to be a successful project manager, you need to become a person of influence. Without influence, there can be no success as a project manager. And, although all key success criteria point to the importance of developing soft skills as a project manager, few books exist about how to develop the power of influence for achieving better project and business results.
Filling this need, The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders supplies detailed guidance on how to improve your influence skills to achieve better business results....

Das Buch ist ein Praxisleitfaden, fur alle, die Projekte in Verlagen leiten - seien es organisatorische Veranderungen, die Einfuhrung neuer Geschaftsmodelle oder besondere Buchprojekte. Es leitet den Leser Schritt fur Schritt vom Einstieg in ein Projekt bis zu dessen Abschluss und hilft mit gezielten Anleitungen, Checklisten und Tipps, Stolpersteine zu vermeiden. Der Autor ist als Unternehmer in unterschiedlichen Branchen tatig.

Program managers must strike a balance between operations and project implementations in order to develop and maintain a culture in which the components of success are repeatable. The Handbook of Program Management is designed to help you do exactly that.

This go-to guide supplies you with the insight and tools you need to establish processes that ensure the success of your project managers--and increase the profitability of your products and services. Fully updated and heavily revised, this new edition...

Recent computer-based tools for project planning and management focus on user-friendliness and interconnectivity. However, these programs function on the Critical Path Method, or CPM, which was created in the 1950s. These programs, which involve simplistic models and methods, ignore the fact that the underlying computations on which they function have become woefully inadequate for the complex projects of today.

The product of nearly a decade of work, The Dynamic Progress Method: Using Advanced Simulation to Improve Project Planning and Management provides an overview of the...

Market Management and Project Business Development is a guide to the theory of marketing and selling projects in business, demonstrating how to secure and deliver value, and improve performance in profitable ways.

By providing a set of key principles and guidelines to business-to-business (B2B) marketing, construction project management expert Hedley Smyth demonstrates how to use marketing and business development principles to maximise the value of a project.

The book takes a step-by-step approach by dealing with each stage in a project's lifecycle in turn,...

Market Management and Project Business Development is a guide to the theory of marketing and selling projects in business, demonstrating how to secure and deliver value, and improve performance in profitable ways.

By providing a set of key principles and guidelines to business-to-business (B2B) marketing, construction project management expert Hedley Smyth demonstrates how to use marketing and business development principles to maximise the value of a project.

The book takes a step-by-step approach by dealing with each stage in a project's lifecycle in turn,...

Relationship Management and the Management of Projects is a guide to successfully building and managing relationships as a project manager and in the project business.

Relationship management is a core skill for any project business to develop capabilities and manage the interface with projects, providing guidance to project managers as they negotiate with business partners and coordinate between business functions. Whatever the structures and procedures an organization has and whatever the project management tools and techniques, they are only as good as the hands...

Relationship Management and the Management of Projects is a guide to successfully building and managing relationships as a project manager and in the project business.

Relationship management is a core skill for any project business to develop capabilities and manage the interface with projects, providing guidance to project managers as they negotiate with business partners and coordinate between business functions. Whatever the structures and procedures an organization has and whatever the project management tools and techniques, they are only as good as the hands...

Recognizing the importance of portfolio management, the Project Management Institute (PMI(r)) has launched a new certification entitled the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP(r)). PfMP(r) Exam Practice Tests and Study Guide is the most comprehensive resource available to help you prepare for and pass the PfMP(r) certification exam. It provides coverage that is current with "The Standard for Portfolio Management, "Third Edition" "and the "PfMP(r) Examination Content Outline (ECO), "2013.
The book consists of five sections, each of which corresponds to one of the five domains...