Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns and fail to deliver their expected benefits. Business people who must have more certainty in their project investments will find this book refreshing. It contains commonsense but groundbreaking techniques that deal with just this challenge. The authors, far from rejecting current methods, take an imaginative approach to encapsulating established best practices such as PRINCE2â„¢ within a framework of new thinking, innovative techniques and hard-nosed portfolio management. This book shows how project sponsors can radically improve the certainty of getting the benefits that they want and accelerate their projects to get them sooner rather than later (or never). Finance and portfolio managers will find techniques that provide them with the means for drilling down and tracking not only the costs, but also the cash values of project benefits, both tangible and intangible. Business people and project managers will find ideas here that enable them to create and control change in communities of stakeholders; which is the ultimate aim of the organizations that are investing time, resources and money in projects of this kind. Accelerating Business and IT Change is essential reading for anyone seeking to define the nature and value of what they expect from their projects, set realistic implementation schedules and then ensure that all the intended benefits are realized. Important: The CD version of this product requires a Java Run Time environment. If you are planning to use the CD in your office please check with your IT Department to make sure you will be able to use it.

Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery

LOCK, DENNIS

Fowler, Alan.

Computers & Technology

Routledge

Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns and fail to deliver their expected benefits. Business people who must have more certainty in their project investments will find this book refreshing. It contains commonsense but groundbreaking techniques that deal with just this challenge. The authors, far from rejecting current methods, take an imaginative approach to encapsulating established best practices such as PRINCE2(tm) within a framework of new thinking, innovative techniques and hard-nosed portfolio management. This book shows how project sponsors can radically improve the certainty of getting the benefits that they want and accelerate their projects to get them sooner rather than later (or never). Finance and portfolio managers will find techniques that provide them with the means for drilling down and tracking not only the costs, but also the cash values of project benefits, both tangible and intangible. Business people and project managers will find ideas here that enable them to create and control change in communities of stakeholders; which is the ultimate aim of the organizations that are investing time, resources and money in projects of this kind. Accelerating Business and IT Change is essential reading for anyone seeking to define the nature and value of what they expect from their projects, set realistic implementation schedules and then ensure that all the intended benefits are realized. Important: The CD version of this product requires a Java Run Time environment. If you are planning to use the CD in your office please check with your IT Department to make sure you will be able to use it.

Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery: Transforming Project Delivery

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Progressive training programmes not only equip managers with basic skills and competencies, but deploy innovative, wide-ranging learning strategies to ensure continuous development. Specifically designed as flexible support material, "Training Extras" provides a simple framework to structure learning. This comprehensive series covers all the crucial skill areas for the first-time manager or supervisor, providing: the key issues in an easy-to-read style; diagrams, models and charts for clarity and quick reference; helpful starting points to build confidence and encourage "hands-on" practice; practical advice and tips based on real-life management issues and examples. This series equips all those responsible for training with a set of useful tools designed to provide maximum flexibility, yet to be fully compatible with other learning resources. The booklets offer reference updates for busy practitioners, as well as study material up to NVQ Level 4, and should become core components on self-development and open-learning programmes. For trainees on formal training courses, the series should function equally effectively as pre-course background reading, as course notes or post-course follow-up material for continuing development. This title helps readers develop the critical skills needed to manage staff effectively, bargain successfully with colleagues or deal tactfully with superiors, thus ensuring that a constructive negotiation process leads to a favourable outcome. Advice and practical guidance is given on: recognizing and using sources of influence; probing and questioning techniques to discover the other person's viewpoint; adopting collaborative or problem-solving approaches; timing tactics and using adjournments; conceding and compromising to find common ground; resisting manipulative ploys; and securing and implementing agreement. The book should be of interest to: trainers, whether in training departments of large organizations, in training companies and consultancies, or operating as freelance trainers; and for everyone who wants to improve their ability to negotiate, persuade and influence. Alan Fowler is the author of "Negotiation: Skills and Strategies", "A Good Start: Effective Employee Induction, Redundancy and Taking Charge".

Negotiating, Persuading and Influencing (Training Extras)

Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development

This text looks at building an environment which promotes health and safety, a sound corporate culture and the key values of quality, equal opportunities and customer care. It offers detailed practical advice on: getting the best performance from employees; keeping the communication channels open; setting up personnel systems and procedures for teleworking, transfer of undertakings, relocations and redundancy; and coping with conflict.

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Human Resources

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Industries

Capacity Development in Practice

The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals. Practical illustrations draw on experiences from the civic, government and private sectors. A central theme is to understand capacity as more than something internal to organisations. This book shows how capacity also stems from connections between different types of actor and the levels in society at which they operate. The content is crafted for a broad audience of practitioners in capacity development: consultants, managers, front-line workers, trainers, facilitators, leaders, advisors, programme staff, activists, and funding agencies. Published with SNV

Acquaye-Baddoo, Naa-Aku

Ubels, Jan

Reference

The Virtuous Spiral is without doubt a most welcome addition to the body of knowledge that will continue to be highly valued in the NGO sector.'Ezra Limiri Mbogori, Director, Mwelekeo wa NGO (MWENGO), Harare'Fowler demonstrates how development NGOs can engage in a virtuous spiral of performance-based learning that regenerates public trust. This is a timely book, dealing squarely with the confidence crisis faced by many NGOs in the South and North.'Louk De La Rive Box, Director, European Centre for Development Policy Management, MaastrichtSustainability is crucial for all institutions involved in international development. This work offers practical guidance on how to achieve it. There are three main kinds of sustainability and a section of the book is devoted to each: making the impact of the organization's work sustainable, ensuring continuity of funding, and making the organization itself sustainable to remain viable. Achieving all three creates a virtuous spiral. The book takes an organizational rather than a technical or impact-based approach to sustainability. It is based on extensive international research and offers many practical examples of sustainability and the difficult trade-offs involved.

The Virtuous Spiral: A Guide to Sustainability for NGO's in International Development

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Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery

Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery: Transforming Project Delivery

Negotiating, Persuading and Influencing (Training Extras)

Get More - and More Results - from Your People

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950: A Social History of Lancashire Cotton Operatives in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Capacity Development in Practice

Capacity Development in Practice

The Virtuous Spiral: A Guide to Sustainability for NGO's in International Development