Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value

✍ Scribed by Ofer Zwikael, John Smyrk (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Projects and programmes are approved and funded to generate benefits. Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value proposes a complete framework that seeks to support such an objective – from project selection and definition, through execution, and beyond implementation of deliverables until benefits are secured.

Because it is preoccupied with deliverables, accepted project management practice is flawed. Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value proposes an alternative approach, which seeks a flow of target outcomes for the organisation investing in the project.

Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value provides support for all those who play a role of leadership in projects at different levels. Senior executives, practitioners and academics will find in this book a comprehensive guide to the conduct of projects and programmes, which includes robust models, a set of consistent principles, an integrated glossary, enabling tools, illustrative examples and case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Projects: An Executive Context....Pages 1-9
The Input-Transform-Outcome (ITO) Model of a Project....Pages 11-35
Achieving Success in Projects....Pages 37-83
The Project Environment....Pages 85-133
Starting a New Project....Pages 135-180
Planning a Project: The Roles of the Key Players....Pages 181-223
Executing a Project: The Roles of the Key Players....Pages 225-257
Realising Outcomes from a Project: The Roles of the Key Players....Pages 259-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-359

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing