Mission Management

Author : Peter C. Brinckerhoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470432071
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission-Based Management written by Peter C. Brinckerhoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Management provides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker Addresses the effects of SOX, organizational transparency, new technologies, technology planning, and marketing in today's environment Is written by a nationally recognized expert who has trained thousands of nonprofit managers in hundreds of seminars on the best practices in nonprofit management Includes in each chapter a recap and a list of questions for group discussion More than ever before, as a nonprofit manager, you want and need practical guidance on how to do your job and run your organization more effectively and efficiently. And more than ever before, Mission-Based Management, Third Edition provides the definitive answer.

Author : Edward J. Hoffman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547279
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smart Mission written by Edward J. Hoffman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects succeed. The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed as a project. Project management emphasizes control, processes, and tools—but, according to The Smart Mission, that is not the right way to run a project. Human skills and expertise, not technical tools, are what make projects successful. Projects run on knowledge. This paradigm-shifting book—by three project management experts, all of whom have decades of experience at NASA and elsewhere—challenges the conventional wisdom on project management, focusing on the human dimension: learning, collaboration, teaming, communication, and culture. The authors emphasize three themes: projects are fundamentally about how teams work and learn together to get things done; the local level—not an organization’s upper levels—is where the action happens; and projects don’t operate in a vacuum but exist within organizations that are responsible to stakeholders. Drawing on examples and case studies from NASA and other organizations, the authors identify three project models—micro, macro, and global—and their different knowledge needs. Successful organizations have a knowledge-based culture. Successful project management guides the interplay of knowledge, projects, and people.

Author : Paul Sean Hill
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473668484
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of This World written by Paul Sean Hill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failure is always an option... For more than 50 years, NASA's Mission Control has been known for two things: perfect decision making in extreme situations and producing generations of steely-eyed missile men and women who continue that tradition. A key to that legacy of brilliant performance is a particular brand of leadership, especially at the working level in Mission Control. Take the ultimate insiders look at the leadership values and culture that created the best team on this planet. Paul Sean Hill was responsible for NASA's Mission Operations support for manned space flight from 2007-2011. In this candid book he shows that the secret to Mission Control's success has never been rocket science and that the real practice of perfect decision making can be applied to any organisation or team. By demonstrating how his Mission Control team nurtured a culture which has delivered impossible wins for decades, Hill provides a guide for all leaders to boost their company's performance at all levels. Whether failure means cost and schedule overruns, quality reduction, loss of market share, bankruptcy - or putting someone's life a risk, how we lead can determine whether even small mistakes are dealt with or are left to snowball out of control and destroy an enterprise. Discover how to take leadership from the Mission Control Room to your boardroom and beyond, and achieve this out-of-this-world leadership environment in your team.

Author : Pablo Cardona
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030837807
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management by Missions written by Pablo Cardona and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory; it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts of ‘purpose’ and ‘missions’ to strategy, culture and leadership. In the years since, purpose and missions have become business imperatives – not only in terms of remaining competitive but as core in the attempts to have a sustainable impact on the world. The second edition of Management by Missions is an open access book based on substantially more research carried out over fifteen years, involving more than 200 organizations around the world. All of this research supports that the practical models and ideas offered in the book have been tried and tested and actually work in practice. With case studies, anecdote and new research findings, the authors present the main tools of the MBM method (shared missions, missions scorecards, interdependency matrix, missions-based objectives and integral assessment) and the type of leadership needed to implement it. The ideas presented in this book mark a path towards a new management methodology for the XXI century and a new way of understanding the work that managers do.

Author : Andreas Klöckner
Publisher : Dr. Hut
ISBN 13 : 3843928436
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavior Trees for Mission Management of High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites written by Andreas Klöckner and published by Dr. Hut. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-altitude pseudo-satellites currently require large crews of highly trained personnel. In order for these platforms to become commercially viable, it is imperative that mission-level tasks are automated in a mission management system, while maintaining flight safety. The new method of behavior trees is investigated for this purpose and extended with proper initialization, continuous-time processing, and modular stateful tasks. The approach is implemented in the Modelica environment and evaluated in a complex mission Simulation.

Author : Jesús Garcia
Publisher : Artech House
ISBN 13 : 1630819840
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering UAS Applications: Sensor Fusion, Machine Vision and Mission Management written by Jesús Garcia and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have evolved rapidly in recent years thanks to advances in microelectromechanical components, navigation, perception, and artificial intelligence, allowing for a fast development of autonomy. This book presents general approaches to develop, test, and evaluate critical functions such as navigation, obstacle avoidance and perception, and the capacity to improve performance in real and simulated scenarios. It provides the practical knowledge to install, analyze and evaluate UAS solutions working in real systems; illustrates how to use and configure complete platforms and software tools; and reviews the main enabling technologies applied to develop UAS, possibilities and evaluation methodology. You will get the tools you need to evaluate navigation and obstacle avoidance functions, object detection, and planning and landing alternatives in simulated conditions. The book also provides helpful guidance on the integration of additional sensors (video, weather, meteorological) and communication networks to build IoT solutions. This is an important book for practitioners and researchers interested in integrating advanced techniques in the fields of AI, sensor fusion and mission management, and anyone interest in applying and testing advanced algorithms in UAS platforms.

Author : Lynne A. Weikart
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478649526
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Budgeting and Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations written by Lynne A. Weikart and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nonprofit’s mission cannot be achieved unless there are resources available to fund it—without a sound financial strategy, a nonprofit cannot thrive. By creating stable financial foundations for their nonprofits, managers take advantage of the nonprofit sector’s size and scope, realize all of the sources and distribution of revenues, and effectively develop fiscal risk assessment methods and apply strategies to mitigate risk. Nonprofit managers must comprehend and efficiently use the financial tools available to them to develop financial policies that will help them to succeed in many types of economies. The Second Edition presents financial concepts in a straightforward format grounded in real examples that are readily accessible to students from any background. The authors provide the groundwork for solid accounting principles and ethical guidelines, define and set standards for internal controls and audits, and explain the ingredients used to measure program performance. Today’s nonprofits must also be aware of the growing scope of the fourth sector of social enterprise, which can inspire nonprofits to be flexible, creative, and innovative in achieving their missions.

Author : Peter C. Brinckerhoff
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471390145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission-Based Management written by Peter C. Brinckerhoff and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE "BEST NEW NONPROFIT BOOK"!-The Alliance forNonprofit Management This practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-use workbook provideskey tools to help managers of nonprofits ensure that theirorganization pursues its mission, meets the changing needs of thecommunity-and has enough money to make ends meet-while alsosatisfying the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, andbankers. Designed to equip nonprofit managers and other nonprofitworkers with the guidance they need to do their jobs and run theirorganizations more effectively and efficiently, this workbook isalso a hands-on tool to help implement the ideas in the author'shighly regarded Mission-Based Management. Filled with indispensablechecklists, worksheets, forms, displays, and hands-on suggestions,and including a companion CD-ROM, the Workbook will show you how tosmoothly and successfully: * Hone your organization's core competencies * Focus your resources * Improve overall mission capability * Get the most out of group discussions * Utilize self-assessment tools ... and much more to help you and all involved help yourorganization achieve its mission

Author : James L. Rash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third International Symposium on Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems written by James L. Rash and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arosha K. Bandara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540729852
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inter-Domain Management written by Arosha K. Bandara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2007, held in Oslo, Norway in June 2007. It covers scalable network management, inter-domain concepts, promises and ubiquitous management, autonomous infrastructure and security, management models, policy interactions, security management, logic and validation, and networks.