Project Management

Focusing on the challenges and opportunities of building a career in project management, this book features a wide array of self-assessment tools and resources to help you determine your career profile and develop your interpersonal and leadership skills. As a complement to your technical accomplishments, you learn to design strategies to generate support throughout your organization. Learn how to create a professional development plan, hire the best team Member, find mentors, and deliver results. By knowing how to marshal resources and make decisions, you will ensure the smooth flow of your projects from conception to delivery.

Your Handbook for Managing Projects In this third edition of Managing Projects in Organizations, J. Davidson Frame updates and expands on his classic book to provide an accessible introduction to the field of project management. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of consulting and training experience, Frame's most current edition of his landmark book includes a wealth of new topics, including: Managing virtual teams The evolving concept of the project manager's role Co-managed project teams The project office Project portfolios Web-based project management International project management Praise for J. Davidson Frame and His Books 'Frame has a deep understanding of the systemic nature of project management.' -Quality Progress 'The New Project Management examines the new realities of project management: managing risk, maintaining quality of goods and services, outsourcing, satisfying customers, and communicating effectively with managers, customers, vendors, and staff.' -PM Network 'An excellent book I'd recommend is Managing Projects in Organizations by J. Davidson Frame. . . . Can help you put your project management skills on track.' -Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine 'Provides an excellent overview of the fundamental concepts of project management.' -Public Productivity Management Review

In this book, Badiru presents quantitative models in practical formats for project planning, scheduling, and control. The book organizes quantitative topics that have been successfully used in business, management, production, and service operations into an integrated framework for project management. Numerous examples are used to clarify the techniques covered. The quantitative approach of the book is designed to complement the usual qualitative approach to project management.

Management of new technologies is a critical factor in achieving global competitiveness. A recent survey of managers in the United States revealed that the implementation of new and advanced technologies is the most popular strategy in achieving global competitiveness. This book explores the role of technology in that context. The book identifies the role of new technologies in improving quality and shows that adopting a strategic total quality management will, in fact, lead to improved productivity and survivability of the firm. A thorough comparison of the Japanese and American production management practices is presented. This in-depth analysis helps to identify the problems of managing new technologies and shows that human resources management is a critical factor that should not be overlooked. Other strategies for improving global competitiveness are presented. Each of the five sections of the book deals with a major thrust that confronts management of new technologies. The book also discusses information system management and product design. The book uses real-life cases, models, and conceptual frameworks to support the views presented.

Primarily a guide for managers and post-graduates entering the territory of the Management of Change, this book offers a thorough and challenging review of the subject, and brings together material from popular management texts to address the theory and practical implications raised by these themes.

This volume is a sequel to Information Management: The Strategic Dimension (OUP 1988), a book which was well received by managers and academics alike. In the last decade, the pervasiveness of information technology (IT) has brought about far-reaching changes in how many managers and specialists work and, indeed, in how we conceptualize the organization. The correspondence between new organizational terminology and the language of IT demonstrates this -- networked, virtual and knowledge-based organizations, inter-organizational alliances, distributed organizations and groupware all being examples. For some, IT represents a solution to many organizational and operational problems (including the advocates of Business Process Re-engineering) and the most likely way to improve business performance and gain competitive advantage. At the same time, for many managers and organizations the reality is that the risks, costs, false trails and difficulties seem to outweigh any immediate tangible advantage. The purpose of this book is to take an informed, dispassionate and constructive look at the challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidance on the ever changing IT environment, focusing in particular on managerial and organizational issues. These include centralization versus decentralization, relations between users and specialists, managing the IS function, outsourcing versus internal capabilities, project management and systems implementation, and an assessment of Business Process Re-engineering at both the conceptual and empirical level. Section 1 looks at some of the organizational horizons made possible by information technology; the next section tackles some of the challenges that face organizations who want to exploit IT in innovative and strategic ways. Section 3 examines some of the eternal questions of how to organize the IS function. In Section Four the contributors look at various aspects of project management and systems implementation. The next section examines some contemporary management questions on the agendas of Chief Information officers and their IS departments. Michael Earl's postscript integrates the volume through the framework of 'organizational fit'. The book provides an authoritative overview and helpful diagnostics of current information management challenges by some of the leading information systems researchers in Europe and the USA. The volume will be essential reading for management students, consultants, and senior IT professionals. Hardback Sales Details Published: 28.03.96 First year sales: Total: 650, UK: 264, USA: 177, EUR: 76, JAP/Branch: 88, Other: 45 Life sales: 894