The Routledge Companion to Strategic Project Management
Published on 31. December 2023
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-415-51812-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1990s the growth in project management practices outside the traditional project based industries of construction and engineering into mainstream management has been rapid. As a consequence, a new stream of research has emerged where project management is no longer confined to product creation, but rather business transformation, continuous improvement, organisational change, value creation and strategy implementation. Central to this perspective is the concept of Strategic Project Management that seeks to maintain alignment of a strategic project with organisational strategy throughout the project lifecycle from selection, prioritisation, resource allocation and realignment of the project coinciding with changes in the business environment.
The Routledge Companion to Strategic Project Management introduces contemporary and emerging concepts to add to the field of project management. It uses a wide range of international contributors drawn from the network of scholars in this field. Split into three parts the textbook covers
Strategic context of projects
Control and implementation of strategic projects
Strategic project leadership and decision making
The text provides a comprehensive resource for advanced students and those going into industry in this important area. It is the first text to fully explain the complexity of managing projects within the strategic environment. As a result, this area is particularly relevant to all project managers who embark on managing business projects.
The Routledge Companion to Strategic Project Management introduces contemporary and emerging concepts to add to the field of project management. It uses a wide range of international contributors drawn from the network of scholars in this field. Split into three parts the textbook covers
Strategic context of projects
Control and implementation of strategic projects
Strategic project leadership and decision making
The text provides a comprehensive resource for advanced students and those going into industry in this important area. It is the first text to fully explain the complexity of managing projects within the strategic environment. As a result, this area is particularly relevant to all project managers who embark on managing business projects.
Reviews / Votes
'If you expect to be a successful project manager in the future you need to embrace strategic project management today and know its vital role in delivering successful international projects otherwise projects without a strategic alliance are likely to be like a book without a cover' Margaret Chawawa - Leeds Metropolitan University, UKMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 s/w Abbildungen, 50 s/w Zeichnungen, 50 s/w Tabellen
50 Tables, black and white; 50 Line drawings, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-51812-3 (9780415518123)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Amos P. Haniff is Senior Teaching Fellow in Strategic Project Management at Heriot Watt University, UK
Tomas Blomquist is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Umea University, Sweden
Antonio Calabrese is Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tomas Blomquist is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Umea University, Sweden
Antonio Calabrese is Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Content
Part I: The Strategic Context of Projects 1. Strategic Project Management: The New Stream of Project Management Research 2. Time in Organization Studies: Implications for Strategic Project Management 3. In Pursuit of Relevance & Sustainability 4. Projects: Where Strategies Collide 5. The Strategy of Managing by Projects and its Consequences for Human Resource Management 6. Dynamic Resource Management in Project Portfolios 7. Managing Portfolios of Relationships Linked to Inter-organizational Innovation Projects 8. The Importance of Integrating Strategic Aspects with PPM for NPD Portfolios 9. Choosing the Right Project in the Engineering and Construction Field 10. Going with the Flow: A Case Study from a Latin American Logistics Perspective Part II. The Control and Implementation of Strategic Projects 11. Cultural Sensitive Project Management 12. Project Manager Assignment: A Strategic Perspective 13. Management Hybrids: Reconnecting Formal Project Management with the Realities of its Own Practice 14. The Sustainability of Organizational Structure for the Implementation of Strategic Projects 15. Strategic Management Accounting for Projects: Link Between Strategic Values and Accounting Numbers 16. Temporal Misfits and Project Management Part III: Strategic Project Leadership and Decision Making 17. What is Strategic Project Leadership 18. Leadership & Strategic Projects 19. Projects and Organizational Prototyping: Introduction of the Time Manager 20. Managing Strategic Vanguard Projects: Lessons from the Manhattan Case 21. Integrating Performance Measures to Exert Strategic Leadership in Managing Project Portfolios