Creative project management : innovative project options to solve problems on time and under budget / Michael S. Dobson and Ted Leemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobson, Michael Singer, author.

Leemann, Ted, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business.

Project management.

Physical Description:

v, 261 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2010]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The seven essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning--all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule. Creative Project Management adds two new elements to the mix: creativity and innovation. Internationally renowned project management consultants Michael Dobson and Ted Leemann combine traditional project management skills, such as risk evaluation, decision-making, and human dynamics, with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. They provide seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project.

Contents:

Why do 70 percent of projects fail?

What we know and what we think

The most dangerous word is a premature "yes"

Good enough, barely adequate, failure

When the project appears impossible

Knowns and unknowns : the risk factor

Project : intelligence

It takes a village to wreck a project

Framing change

Salvaging project value.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612764677

9781282764675

1282764675

9780071739344

0071739343

OCLC:

859675810