Practice of Project Management : a Strategic Guide to the Business Focused Approach.

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Titles

• Full Title: Practice of Project Management : a Strategic Guide to the Business Focused Approach.

Notes

• Contents -- List of acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Essential Building Blocks Part I -- Projects and project management 1 -- The context of project management 2 -- Focusing Projects on the Business Part II -- Projects and strategic linkages 3 -- The Wrappersâ?Ø model 4 -- Implementing Business Focused Project Management 5 -- Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM) Part III -- Introduction to ODPM 6 -- The project initiation phase 7 -- The project definition phase 8 -- The project planning phase 9
• The project execution phase 10The project close-out phase 11 -- Appendix A â€? The conference project -- Appendix B â€? Basic concepts, tools and techniques -- Appendix C â€? Reasons for failure and guidelines for success -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
• English.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 0749436948; 9780749436940; 9780749447205; 0749447206
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)994401923

Publication Statement

• Place: London
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Date: 2002

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource (369 pages)

Table Of Contents

• Contents -- List of acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Essential Building Blocks Part I -- Projects and project management 1 -- The context of project management 2 -- Focusing Projects on the Business Part II -- Projects and strategic linkages 3 -- The Wrappersâ?Ø model 4 -- Implementing Business Focused Project Management 5 -- Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM) Part III -- Introduction to ODPM 6 -- The project initiation phase 7 -- The project definition phase 8 -- The project planning phase 9
• The project execution phase 10The project close-out phase 11 -- Appendix A â€? The conference project -- Appendix B â€? Basic concepts, tools and techniques -- Appendix C â€? Reasons for failure and guidelines for success -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary

• In today's highly competitive and fast-paced environment, the rapid creation and delivery of high-quality products and services is critical to business survival. To meet these demands, modern businesses need to operate at high performance levels, harnessing the full power of their resources to focus on strategic and business objectives, and deliver business benefits. Traditional project management has tended to focus primarily on the processes of managing projects to successful completion. To manage projects from their inception through to actual delivery of the business enabling objectives, a.

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