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How do you manage a company which runs hundreds of changing projects continually to maintain global competitiveness – what form of organization is used?How are the targets aligned to business strategy?Who sets the specifications or targets?How are they all reviewed?Who implements the results and how are these audited and checked, against the strategic framework, the targets set, and the results expected?Managing by Projects for Business Success develops a detailed appreciation of the approach to practical application, together with a parallel set of detailed methodology sections, tools and techniques, to help put the principles into practice. It provides the professional change manager with a wide range of practical methodologies and case examples from leading international service and manufacturing companies, comprehensively backed up by extensive source literature references. It will also be an invaluable supporting text for university business and engineering courses, as well as for in-service courses for senior managers and professionals with its distillation of a wide range of practical experiences illustrated by best-price case examples from a wide range of industries.Managing by Projects for Business Success develops along a backbone of six core chapters, from an initial definition of the strategic context for managing by projects, through explanation of a standard but flexible project process and then through specific application areas of generic importance to many organisations and enterprises.
John Parnaby and Stephen Wearne are the authors of Managing by Projects for Business Success, published by Wiley.
Acknowledgements xii Foreword xiiiHow to use this Book xvOrganizing for Project-led Strategic Innovation 11.1 Introduction - 'what's this all about' managing projects, an overview 11.2 Background to the genesis of a managing by projects philosophy 51.3 The critical business success factors summarised 101.4 The creation of a standardized tight-loose project and programme management framework 111.5 The evolution of the focused modern approach 131.6 Organizing for project-led strategic innovation - lessons from recent history 151.7 The competitiveness achievement plan 171.8 Delivering a new vision 211.9 Focusing management attention - payment by results 241.10 Information support 321.11 Summary 331.12 Case example 1 - service business change project 361.13 Case example 2 - new product development 40Appendix Business processes - introduction 47Further reading 52Support Methodology Section 1The Strategic Business Planning Framework Principles - General International Examples1.1 Background 531.2 Supporting features of policy function deployment (PFD, CAP) 561.3 Some supporting methodologies - to support bottom-up implementation 57
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