Project leadership : creating value with an adaptive project organization /: creating value with an adaptive project organization. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barry L. Cross, M. Kathryn Brohman.
• Authors: Cross, Barry L; Brohman, M. Kathryn
• Contents: The Project Environment; Cooking with Campbell’s: DuPont Goes Downstream in the Le Menu Dinner; ; Why Projects Fail; The England–France; Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) Project; Why Projects Fail; The Case for Project Leadership; The Adaptive Project Leadership Model; Why Project Leadership Is Important: Redux; Assessing the Need for Project Leadership; The 92nd Grey Cup (2004): A Case in Project Leadership; ; Project Oversight and Visibility; Leadership through the Intersection Points; Leadership through Effective Oversight and Visibility; Oversight and Visibility at Access Copyright; ; The Paradox of Project Control ; The Need for Control; The Project Leadership Gap and the Paradox of Control; Establishing Effective Project Control; Institutionalization: Moving from Leadership to Organizational Control; Four Systems of Organizational Control; Effective Decision Control; Managing the Paradox: IT Project Delivery in the Canadian Government; ; Risk and Crisis Management; The Steps in Risk Management; Crisis Management; ; Project Timing and Acceleration; Barriers to Effective Project Estimates; Increasing Estimate Accuracy; Project Acceleration; ; Strategy, Execution, and the Operating Plan; Project Visibility and Reinforcing Strategy: The Operating Plan; ; Building an Adaptive Project Organization ; What Is an Adaptive Organization?; Moving from Order to Adaptive; The Anatomy of an Adaptive Project Organization; Building an Adaptive Project Organization at Bright Star; ; Appendix A: Project Leadership Organizational Self-Assessment; Project Leadership Assessment; Analyzing Your Results; Appendix B: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis; Endnotes; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.4092; Project management; Leadership
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482216318
• Related ISBNs: 9781482216301
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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