Reinventing Project Management
The Diamond Approach To Successful Growth And Innovation
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2007
288 pages
978-1-4221-6347-4 (ISBN)
Description
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects fail-largely because conventional project management concepts cannot adapt to a dynamic business environment. Moreover, top managers neglect their company's project activity, and line managers treat all their projects alike-as part of operations. Based on an unprecedented study of more than 600 projects in a variety of businesses and organizations around the globe, Reinventing Project Management provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects to achieve superior business results.
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Aaron J. Shenhar | Dov Dvir
Reinventing Project Management
The Diamond Approach To Successful Growth And Innovation
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08/2007
Harvard Business Review Press
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Shenhar, Aaron J./ Dvir, Dov
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: A New Model for Managing Projects
- Chapter 1: Why Your Business Success Depends on Projects
- Chapter 2: What Makes a Project Successful
- Chapter 3: The Diamond Framework
- Part 2: The Four Bases of Successful Projects
- Chapter 4: Novelty
- Chapter 5: Technology
- Chapter 6: Complexity
- Chapter 7: Pace
- Part 3: Putting the Diamond Approach to Work
- Chapter 8: Managing Projects for Business Innovation
- Chapter 9: Managing Projects within the Existing Organization
- Chapter 10: How Markets and Industries Affect Project Management
- Chapter 11: Reinventing Project Management for Your Organization
- Appendix 1: Our Research Steps
- Appendix 2: Project Success Assessment Questionnaire
- Appendix 3A: Building the Contingency Approach to Project Management
- Appendix 3B: Project Classification Questionnaire
- Appendix 3C: Principles and Design of Classification Systems
- Appendix 4: Project Novelty and Traditional Project Management
- Appendix 5A: Empirical Results for Project Technology
- Appendix 5B: Project Technology and Traditional Project Management
- Appendix 6A: Empirical Results for Project Complexity
- Appendix 6B: Project Complexity and Traditional Project Management
- Appendix 7: Project Pace and Traditional Project Management
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
