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In today's highly competitive and fast-paced environment, the rapid creation and delivery of high-quality products and services is critical to business survival. To meet these demands, modern businesses need to operate at high performance levels, harnessing the full power of their resources to focus on strategic and business objectives, and deliver business benefits. Traditional project management has tended to focus primarily on the processes of managing projects to successful completion. To manage projects from their inception through to actual delivery of the business enabling objectives, a different project management approach is needed. Project management needs to become part of the business and, in order to achieve this, organizations need to come to terms with the business of project management. This book addresses the concepts and issues of business project management. It aims to assist organizations in making the shift from a narrow, strong, technical focus on project management to a broader, more business-oriented focus. It introduces three basic concepts which underpin the philosophy of the business-focused approach: Business Focused Project Management (BFPMTM); The Wrappers TM model; and Objective Directed Project Management (ODPMTM). Packed with concepts, processes and models, this comprehensive title aims to assist anyone who is responsible for converting strategy into reality. It should also enable the development of project management skills to complement technical expertise, and allow readers to provide the project skills their customers demand. It is intended reading for: senior managers and professionals responsible for converting strategy to reality; portfolio managers overseeing a business-focused group of initiatives; project managers and team members responsible for delivery of results that enable business outcomes to be achieved; programme and project sponsors; project administrators; and technical project participants.

Table of Contents:
List of acronyms Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I The Essential Building Blocks Chapter 1 Projects and project management Chapter 2 The context of project management Part II Focusing Projects on the Business Chapter 3 Projects and strategic linkages Chapter 4 The Wrappers' model Chapter 5 Implementing Business Focused Project Management Part III Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM) Chapter 6 Introduction to ODPM Chapter 7 The project initiation phase Chapter 8 The project definition phase Chapter 9 The project planning phase Chapter 10 The project execution phase Chapter 11 The project close-out phase Appendix A: The conference project Appendix B: Basic concepts, tools and techniques Appendix C: Reasons for failure and guidelines for success Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Dennis Comninos is Managing Director of Mercuri Systems and Training (Pty) Ltd. and co-founder of Denzo Management Systems cc. He is also the Managing Director of Quanto Strategies (Pty) Ltd. and is on the boards of a number of other companies. All the companies are South African-based, and provide strategy, business, human capital and project management training, consultancy, products and services internationally. He lectures in project management at various tertiary institutions and consults to many organizations in the areas of strategic, business and project management. He is also a member of the South African Project Management Standards Generating Body (PM SGB). Dennis lives in South Africa with his wife and children.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780749436940
  • Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Width: 142 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0749436948
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English


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