Making Essential Choices With Scant Information

Author : T. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230236839
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Essential Choices with Scant Information written by T. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at how to improve decisions on major projects at the concept stage, when there is scant information available. This book describes how to evaluate judgemental information. It looks at how scant information can actually be a strength, and can help establish a broad overall perspective.

Author : Gary Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319932632
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problem Structuring Approaches for the Management of Projects written by Gary Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation. By studying these approaches, the authors present techniques for enhancing project management knowledge, informing decision-making and guiding management actions. This book is an insightful and timely read, as it addresses the need for organisations to adapt in order to tackle new challenges within today’s changing business landscape. Undoubtedly useful to those studying project management and operational research, this book is also an important read for managers and decision-makers within organisations as it identifies and examines the effective outcomes of PSAs.

Author : T. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274611
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Governance written by T. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides essential insight into what it takes to turn an initial idea into a project with successful outcome in the long term. Fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field.

Author : Hugo Priemus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781002304
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook on Mega-Projects written by Hugo Priemus and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing crucial background information for those who want to understand decision-making processes on large transport infrastructure projects, this fascinating Handbook will prove an important source of information for academics, researchers and stude

Author : David Lowe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405124687
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Management written by David Lowe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial Management: theory and practice defines the role of commercial management within project-oriented organisations, providing a framework for and helping to develop a critical understanding of the factors that influence commercial management practice. It also identifies generic aspects of this practice and provides a theoretical foundation to these activities, by reference to existing and emergent theories and concepts, as well as to relevant management best practice. The book is structured into four parts: Part 1 Introduction – Commercial Management in Project Environments explores the nature of commercial practice within project-oriented organisations at the buyer-seller interface. It presents a Commercial Management framework, which illustrates the multiple interactions and connections between the purchaser‘s procurement cycle and a supplier‘s bidding and implementation cycles. Additionally, it outlines the principle activities undertaken by the commercial function, identifies the skills and abilities that support these activities and reviews the theories and concepts that underpin commercial practice. Finally, it identifies areas of commonality of practice with other functions found within project-oriented organisations, plus sources of potential conflict and misunderstanding. Part 2 – Elements of Commercial Theory and Practice covers commercial leadership; exploring strategy; risk and uncertainty management; financial decision-making; and key legal issues. Part 3 – Approaches to Commercial Practice addresses best practice management; and commercial and contracting strategies and tactics. Finally, Part 4 – Case Studies offers two extended case studies: Football Stadia (the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; the Emirates Stadium, Islington; and Wembley Stadium, London); and Heathrow Terminal 5. The book provides a one-stop-shop to the many topics that underpin commercial management practice from both a demand (buy-side) and a supply (sell-side) perspective. It will help develop an understanding of the issues influencing commercial management: leadership, strategy, risk, financial, legal, best practice management and commercial and contracting strategy and tactics. This book’s companion website is at www.wiley.com/go/lowecommercialmanagement and offers invaluable resources for both students and lecturers: • PowerPoint slides for lecturers on each chapter • Sample exam questions for students to practice • Weblinks to key journals and relevant professional bodies

Author : Beverley Lloyd-Walker
Publisher : Project Management Institute
ISBN 13 : 1628250941
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Project Procurement Arrangements written by Beverley Lloyd-Walker and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large projects, especially in the construction and infrastructure sectors, involve collaborations of many different types, such as built-own-operate, public-private partnership, or competitive dialogue. This monograph details the authors’ research on the types of collaborative projects. The research undertaken for this book responds to the need for a taxonomy of relationship-based procurement approaches, a particular type of project alliancing in need of standardization. Recommendations are made based on interviews with 36 subject matter experts from several countries, as well as an extensive literature review

Author : Paul Steinfort, PhD
Publisher : Project Management Institute
ISBN 13 : 1628250275
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Enables Project Success written by Paul Steinfort, PhD and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Enables Project Success reports on cutting-edge project management research and is academically a work that many practitioners— particularly those who reflect on project management practice and are open to alternative ways of seeing their world— will find pragmatic and useful.

Author : Terry M. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000609561
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Front-end of Large Public Projects written by Terry M. Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance. This book delves into the reality of large public projects, to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently, recognising the realities of their context. It offers a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the governance and management of public projects. The international spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK, Norway, Canada, France, Australia and the Netherlands. Bridging the gap between research, theory and practice, this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance, civil servants and industry practitioners.

Author : Victor Tiberius
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
ISBN 13 : 3728138215
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasteads written by Victor Tiberius and published by vdf Hochschulverlag AG. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasteads – artificial settlements on the open sea – represent a near-future chance for multiple societal restarts. Where nation states suffer from ineffectiveness and inefficiency, both politically and economically, and cannot be changed due to path-dependency and rigidity, the open sea is a clean slate. Here, we can test new ways of doing things differently. This book discusses the opportunities and challenges of seasteads. Its focus is on socio-philosophical, political, economic, and legal aspects of founding new small societies of pro-active and productive individuals and groups. An explorative exercise, this book presents paradigmatic ideas and suggestions for partial aspects of seasteads.

Author : K. Samset
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289924
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Project Appraisal written by K. Samset and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on turning an initial idea into a project with a successful outcome, this book fills a gap in current literature on project management and is thoroughly grounded in the latest research in this field. It emphasizes the practical application of decision making based on qualitative and judgmental information.