Publisher's Synopsis
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 PRINCE2Ö 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. - - The book and CD ROM edition contains a radical innovation. Using the CD ROM you can interact with the book to reassemble the text around your own thinking as you read. Even more importantly you can use the text as a gateway to the world of project management and much more. When your PC is online to the internet, you can click on a word or phrase and instantly initiate a public search engine to retrieve matching material or references. This is not just a book on innovation techniques for project management, but the key to a library - the biggest library in the world: the worldwide web.
