| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Series |
Advances in Project Management |
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Advances in project management.
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| Contents |
Quality. From quality to the pursuit of excellence / Darren Dalcher ; The best practices of managing quality in projects / Ron Basu -- Ethics. Professionalism, ethics and the freedom to ask the right questions / Darren Dalcher ; Asking why?--Ethics, engineering and project management / Michael Cavanagh -- Complexity. The complexity dialogues: 'Complicated' or 'complex'--the management difference / Darren Dalcher, with Kay Remington and Michael Cavanagh -- Organisational change. Managing change: organisations, people and the search for perfection / Darren Dalcher ; Managing value in organisations: new learning, management and business models--why we need them / Donal Carroll -- Finance. Project economics: wishful thinking, conspiracy of optimism or a self-fulfilling prophecy? / Darren Dalcher ; Let in the light on project finances --Hyperhinking. Seeing change: the power to think in new ways / Darren Dalcher ; New mindset for a new age / Philip Weiss -- Memory. When people make decisions: thinking and deciding in projects / Darren Dalcher ; Memory and project mental errors / Lev D. Virine, Michael Trumper and Eugenia Virine -- Beyond goals. Whatever happened to management by objectives? Learning to look beyond goals / Darren Dalcher ; Insights from beyond goals / Susan A. David, David Clutterbuck and David Megginson -- Requirements. Who needs project requirements? / Darren Dalcher ; Developing the systems requirements for a local health care system in Cameroon / Mario Kossmann -- Communication. Too little, too late, or too much, too early: are we paying enough attention to stakeholders? / Darren Dalcher ; Rolling back from the power/interest matrix: a new approach for role based stakeholder engagement in projects / Lou Horton and Ann Pilkington -- Knowledge. Making knowledge count: where to find meaningful information / Darren Dalcher ; Project performance: improving our understanding through sharing of lessons learned / Robert Chapman -- Big data. In data we trust: establishing the value of information, big data and analytics / Darren Dalcher ; Realising value out of big data through small data! / Roel Wolfert and Roger Davies -- Urgency. Learning to deal with emergencies: what the project management bodies of knowledge don't tell us / Darren Dalcher ; Managing the urgent and unexpected / Stephen Wearne and Keith White-Hunt -- Users. For whose benefit? Reclaiming the role of users in projects / Darren Dalcher ; There are no shortcuts from the projects to benefits / Phil Driver and Ian Seath -- Assurance. Not by accident: revisiting quality management / Darren Dalcher ; Cost of quality for construction projects: a fresh look / Ron Basu -- Suppliers. Whose success is it anyway? Rethinking the role of suppliers in projects / Darren Dalcher ; Does one size really fit all? / Adrian Taggart -- Architecture. There is nothing so permanent as temporary: some thoughts on adapting project structures / Darren Dalcher ; Managing change in complex environments / Jonathan Whelan -- Value. The sprint or the marathon? Finding a metaphor to account for value in projects and programmes / Darren Dalcher ; From earned value to value realisation: from managing projects to managing business outcomes in change programmes / Roger Davies and Roel Wolfert -- Stakeholders. Here comes everybody: reframing the stakeholder concept when just about anyone can become your stakeholder / Darren Dalcher ; What stakeholder management should learn from sales and marketing / Jake Holloway -- Resilience. Resilience as bouncing forward: developing the capability to cope when bouncing back is no longer sufficient / Darren Dalcher ; Project resilience--moving beyond traditional risk management / Elmar Kutsch and Neil Turner -- Systems thinking. Complexiity, projects and systems: just going around in circles? / Darren Dalcher ; Systemic thinking as a mechanism for managing risks arising from behavioural complexity on major projects / Tony Llewellyn -- People. Progress through people: the study of projects as if people mattered / Darren Dalcher ; Successful projects and the eight compelling behaviours / Martin Price ; Conclusion--project management insights: the road less travelled |
| Notes |
Resilience as bouncing forward: Developing the capability to cope when bouncing back is no longer sufficient |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315464350 |
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1315464357 |
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