Authors: Christoph H. Loch, Arnoud DeMeyer, Michael T. Pich
ISBN-13: 9780471693055, ISBN-10: 0471693057
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: New Edition
Dr. Christoph H. Loch, Dr. Arnoud DeMeyer, Dr. Michael T. Pich, Department of Technology Management, ISEAD, Fontainebleu, FRANCE
The authors are professors at Europe’s leading business school – INSEAD. All have been in both the private sector and in academia and all are currently involved in teaching project management, strategic management, and technology management.
Managing the Unknown offers a new way of looking at the problem of managing projects in novel and unknown environments. From Europe's leading business school, this book shows how to manage two fundamental approaches that, in combination, offer the possibility of coping with unforeseen influences that inevitably arise in novel projects:
Managing the Unknown offers expert guidelines to the specific project mindsets, infrastructures, and management methods required to use these project management approaches and achieve success in spite of unforeseen obstacles. This book equips readers with:
Pt. I | A new look at project risk management | 9 |
Ch. 1 | PRM best practice : the PCNet project | 13 |
Ch. 2 | The limits of established PRM : the Circored project | 33 |
Ch. 3 | A broader look at project risk management | 51 |
Pt. II | Managing the unknown | 81 |
Ch. 4 | Diagnosing complexity and uncertainty | 85 |
Ch. 5 | Learning projects | 103 |
Ch. 6 | Multiple parallel projects : selectionism | 123 |
Ch. 7 | Selectionism and learning in projects | 141 |
Pt. III | Putting selectionism and learning into practice | 163 |
Ch. 8 | Establishing the project mindset | 165 |
Ch. 9 | Putting the infrastructure in place | 183 |
Ch. 10 | Managing relationships and project governance | 211 |
Ch. 11 | Managing project stakeholders | 237 |
Pt. IV | Managing the unknown : the role of senior management | 261 |
Ch. 12 | The role of senior management in novel projects | 261 |