Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation
Author: David L Cleland
Today's Most Effective Guide for Applying Project Management to Implement Organizational Strategies -- Now Updated and Expanded!
Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation delivers complete guidance on applying the theory, processes, practices, and techniques of project management to support strategic planning. Written by two world-renowned project management leaders, this new edition presents the latest methods for using flexible teams to implement organizational strategies -- especially changes to products, services, and processes.
Designed for use in both large and small organizations, this updated classic ranges from the project management process…to project planning, monitoring, evaluation, and control…to continuous improvement through projects. This resource offers new material on project portfolio management, earned value, project management maturity, nontraditional teams, project partnering, project management outsourcing, and much more.
The Fifth edition of Project Management: Strategic Design and Implementation features:
- Detailed coverage of all advances in project management theory and practice
- Helpful sections added to each chapter, including chapter summary, additional sources of information, discussion questions, project management principles, case study, assignment, and checklist
- Updated examples and exercises on key project management topics
- A larger format with sidebars to highlight major issues
- This new material: chapters on "The Evolution of Project Management" and "Successful Project Teams"
Inside this Updated PM Classic:
Introductionto Project Management * The Strategic Context of Projects * Organizational Design for Project Management * Project Operations * Interpersonal Dynamics in the Management of Projects * The Cultural Elements * New Uses of Teams
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A text for managers, planners, and students. A guide to the theory and practice of project management (PM), it shows how to use the management of projects as key building blocks in the design and execution of organizational strategies. This edition updates the theory of PM and shows how PM continues to move toward "institutionalization" in the sense of becoming a permanent feature of organizations. It also adds a chapter, "Continuous Improvement Through Projects," to show how the application of PM has expanded. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide
Author: David Loshin
"Here is a book that takes the time to identify and define all of the pre-requisite parts of a corporate business intelligence world from the point of view of the expected BI benefits. David Loshin simplifies complicated topics in order to emphasize the true power of organized information."
-Adrienne Tannenbaum - President, Database Design Solutions, Inc.
"Relief from the mundane and ineffective writings that take up valuable space on many practitioner bookshelves ... This Savvy Manager's Guide is a thorough and pleasant read that should be included in the toolkit of all Business Intelligence managers." -Robert S. Seiner, Publisher, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), President & Principal, KIK Consulting & Educational Services
How can a manager transform a company's wealth of information into profits? The answer lies in this book. Business intelligence (BI) is the sum total of best practices, tools, methods, and processes used to transform an organization's data into actionable knowledge. Written by an expert in data management and knowledge discovery to enhance business applications, Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide outlines the technical, management, and political issues for building a successful business intelligence and information exploitation program--from the basics of a BI plan to the actual use of discovered knowledge.
Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide:
* Provides clear explanations without technical jargon, followed by in-depth descriptions.
* Articulates the business value of new technology, while providing relevant introductory technical background.
* Contains ahandy quick-reference to technologies and terminologies.
* Guides managers through developing, administering, or simply understanding business intelligence technology.
* Bridges the business-technical gap.
* Is Web enhanced. Companion sites to the book and series provide value-added information, links, discussions, and more.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Ch. 1 | Business Intelligence and Information Exploitation | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | The Value of Business Intelligence | 11 |
| Ch. 3 | Planning for Success | 27 |
| Ch. 4 | The Business Intelligence Environment | 45 |
| Ch. 5 | Business Models and Information Flow | 59 |
| Ch. 6 | Data Warehouses, Online Analytical Processing, and Metadata | 75 |
| Ch. 7 | Business Rules | 91 |
| Ch. 8 | Data Profiling | 109 |
| Ch. 9 | Data Quality and Information Compliance | 127 |
| Ch. 10 | Information Integration | 145 |
| Ch. 11 | The Value of Parallelism | 161 |
| Ch. 12 | Alternate Information Contexts | 175 |
| Ch. 13 | Data Enhancement | 187 |
| Ch. 14 | Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining | 205 |
| Ch. 15 | Using Publicly Available Data | 219 |
| Ch. 16 | Quick Reference Guide | 233 |
| Index | 253 |
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