Project Leadership
Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2014
223 pages
978-1-4822-1631-8 (ISBN)
Description
Look around your organization: can you identify who owns project management? Would that person appreciate that they own responsibility for your projects? Project Leadership: Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization highlights the importance of these questions underlining the importance not only of the project team but on the culture of
Reviews / Votes
"Barry and Kathryn, through their knowledge and experience offer a very effective and practical way to understand and manage a culture of project management. As one of their former students and a senior executive with a wide experience in project management in the federal government, I can confirm with certainty that numerous best practices presented in this book will help organizations optimize organizational capabilities that will help projects meet strategic objectives." -Stephane Cousineau, Deputy Director and Chief Information Officer, FINTRAC, Government of Canada"This book offers a balance of logical and persuasive content with experience and observations of real life examples of effective project leadership. The authors describe a number of projects they participated in. The result is a book that is not only very insightful but also an interesting read."
-Jim McSheffrey, Vice President, Greater China Area and President, 3M China.
"I highly recommend this book for all leaders involved in project strategy and delivery. Throughout this book, Professor Brohman and Professor Cross have offered exceptional insight into real-world project delivery complexities that organizations often face. Effective project leadership is the key ingredient behind successful project launches and the authors have provided an invaluable framework that will enable leaders to be more effective."
-Farshad Kajouii, Director, Project Delivery, Bell Canada.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
4,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-1631-8 (9781482216318)
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Sarah Coleman | Donnie MacNicol
Project Leadership
E-Book
08/2016
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Routledge
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Barry L. Cross | M. Kathryn Brohman
Project Leadership
Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization
Book
07/2014
1st Edition
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Persons
Barry Cross career spans over 25 years of industry, teaching and consulting experience. He joined Queen's University in 2006 after spending 18 years in various Executive and Management positions with Magna International, Autosystems Manufacturing and DuPont. While in Industry, Mr. Cross led many key strategic initiatives, including the development of significant projects in Asia, Brazil, Mexico, and Europe.
Mr. Cross now teaches at Queen's School of Business at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in Operations Management, Service Management, and Project Management. At the Executive level, he speaks regularly on Lean, Innovation, Execution, Operations and Project Management. His speaking and consulting clients include Deloitte, Samsung, Encana and others.
He has an MBA from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. He has published numerous articles and is quoted widely in radio, television and the written media. He is the bestselling author of Lean Innovation: Understanding What's Next in Today's Economy (Taylor and Francis, 2012).
Kathryn Brohman's career started as a marketing manager with Sun Microsystems of Canada. She went on to pursue her Ph.D. in information systems at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario where she spent four years working with systems development teams both at the university as well as with organizations including Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and the Bank of Montreal.
Dr. Brohman is now an Associate professor at Queen's School of Business. Her leading edge research focuses on enabling business strategy with technology with a specific focus on project governance and control and IT-enabled resilient organizational design. She has published her work in premier journals including the Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Communications of the ACM.
Mr. Cross now teaches at Queen's School of Business at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in Operations Management, Service Management, and Project Management. At the Executive level, he speaks regularly on Lean, Innovation, Execution, Operations and Project Management. His speaking and consulting clients include Deloitte, Samsung, Encana and others.
He has an MBA from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. He has published numerous articles and is quoted widely in radio, television and the written media. He is the bestselling author of Lean Innovation: Understanding What's Next in Today's Economy (Taylor and Francis, 2012).
Kathryn Brohman's career started as a marketing manager with Sun Microsystems of Canada. She went on to pursue her Ph.D. in information systems at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario where she spent four years working with systems development teams both at the university as well as with organizations including Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and the Bank of Montreal.
Dr. Brohman is now an Associate professor at Queen's School of Business. Her leading edge research focuses on enabling business strategy with technology with a specific focus on project governance and control and IT-enabled resilient organizational design. She has published her work in premier journals including the Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and Communications of the ACM.
Content
The Project Environment. Why Projects Fail. The Case for Project Leadership. Project Oversight and Communication. The Paradox of Project Control. Project Estimating and Acceleration. Risk and Crisis Management. Strategy, Execution and the Operating Plan. Building a Sustainable Project Organization.
