The current economic climate has created a huge market demand for innovative project management techniques within government agencies, corporations, organizations, and even students in an attempt to increase marketability. "Common Sense in Project Management" presents new techniques and infrastructures to help organizations discover innovative, business, and technical competitive advantages. As the title suggest the book takes a practical and streamlined approach to project management that empowers managers and team members to deliver faster-to-market, value-added results. The reader builds upon existing project management skills as they learn crucial roles in project innovation, specific activities to start the process, tricks of the trade, and best practices. Every new technique presented in the book easily maps to existing project management software and methodology.
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Höhe: 226 mm
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978-1-59863-175-3 (9781598631753)
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Part I: Managing Innovation Through Projects 1. How Innovation Happens in a Project 2. Crucial Roles in Project Innovation 3. How to Succeed as a Project Innovator 4. What an Innovative Project Looks Like Part II: From Basic Concepts to a Working Project 5. Getting Started 6. Finding Good Ideas Within the Project 7. Avoiding Typical New Project Mistakes 8. Project Innovation Part III: The Tricks of the Trade: Add Significant Value to Your Deliverables 9. Advice for Hands-on Project Innovators 10. The Middle Management Role 11. The Senior Management Role in Innovative Project Management Part IV: Innovative Project Management with Best Practices 12. Specific Activities to Start the CS-PM Process 13. Investigating a Combined Business and Technical Element 14. Implementation of Selected Parts of the Project 15. Conclusion: Managing Innovation Through Projects Part V: Appendices A: Forms B: Donald Geldernick"s Bibliography Resource List
