Название: Managing Fuzzy Projects in 3D: A Proven, Multi-Faceted Blueprint for Overseeing Complex Projects
Автор: Lavagnon Ika, Jan Saint-Macary
Издательство: McGraw Hill
Год: 2023
Страниц: 541
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB
The first resource of its kind―a multi-disciplinary method for effectively managing the largest, most complex projects in business today. All too often, we execute projects that come with high levels of complexity or uncertainty, along with conflicting or unstated expectations from stakeholders. The authors of this groundbreaking guide refer to them as “fuzzy projects,” and they are all-too-common today. In Managing Fuzzy Projects in 3D, project management guru Lavagnon Ika and organizational strategy expert Jan Saint-Macary walk you through their proven three-pronged approach for successfully managing such projects. It’s all about planning and executing the project with three key factors in mind―reason and logic, psychosocial/human behavior considerations, and politics, such as power, influence, and hierarchy―to gain a complete picture of the project and the processes for getting it done. Drawing on copious examples, they shed light on why even well-managed projects can fail to meet business case and strategic expectations, and they show how their methods work in the real world. Project-based work occupies a unique setting within organizations, as this book points out. Project managers sit at the junction of strategic management activities, concerned with leading teams through turbulent, external challenges to identify and gain commercial success, global leadership, or other important benefits that the firm values. At the same time, projects directly affect the internal activities of organizations, proposed and managed to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and give the firm a competitive advantage over its rivals. In modern organizations, no idea is too big and no challenge is too difficult to conquer.