Project management

As an extension of Volumes I and II of this series, this book contains a detailed elaboration of the Tesla story, in a way that also serves to examine the interaction of technology and economic forces that determine the structural profitability of any industry, especially capital-intense industries.

This book provides a stakeholder-centered analysis of projects and explains which identification, analysis, communication, and engagement models are relevant to different types of projects.

This book identifies some of the most significant complexities faced by project managers when attempting to implement the PMBOK framework in global projects and provides pointers for existing or aspiring managers and project managers.

Learn how an "e;Agile"e; approach to project management blends older traditional ideas and newer discoveries to create innovative products and services.

This book examines the effective and appropriate integration of project customers in intercultural settings.

Offering a pragmatic understanding of customer engagement as an object of effective marketing management, this book takes an integrative approach and brings together different streams of marketing research, such as customer activism and value formation.

This book reports on new theories and applications in the field of intelligent systems and computing.

This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations.

This book helps professionals to turn their own Six Sigma projects into reality.

The primary focus of this book is an examination of longitudinal team communication and its impact on team performance.

We all need creative ideas for solving challenging problems, innovating, and reconciling dilemmas.

This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.

This book provides a consistent and holistic managerial approach to product management and presents a practical and comprehensive methodology (roles, processes, tasks, and deliverables) that covers all aspects of product management.

Collaborating in virtual teams is a new reality in modern project management and work environments.

This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project.

This book describes how auditors exercise different levels of professional skepticism and how they are exposed to different types of affective information on clients' behavior.

Correctly functioning evaluation systems directly influence the efficient and effective planning and implementation of projects and the achievement of organisational objectives.

This book gathers the best papers presented at the 19th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, which was held in Granada, Spain in July 2015.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting.

With a special focus on private label food brands and manufacturer brands, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the fast-moving consumer goods marketing landscape.

This book blends academic rigor and real world experience on the agile and planning schools of project management and the process of becoming a project leader.

This book shines a spotlight on two missing foci of authentic leadership research: international and follower perspectives.

This book gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the joint international conference ICIEOM-CIO-IIE 2015, offering recent research on industrial engineering, management and operations from an international and interdisciplinary perspective.

Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued.

This is a different kind of book on project management.

This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various models and practices of implementing project management in schools, and conceptualizes the processes of adaptation and development of project management curricula within the unique context of the contemporary school environment.

This international Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of key topics, debates and issues within the now well-established field of Knowledge Management (KM).

This book presents new developments and advances in the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, integrated in various areas of project management and BIM environments.

This book argues that by integrating effective knowledge management (KM) with project management (PM), the overall project success rate can be improved significantly.

Examining the experiences of Africans setting up businesses back home, the main focus of this book is to establish the economic, social and psychological reasons for such 'home direct investment'.

Demonstrating the potential of building strong brands in the energy sector, this book explores the challenges of shifting the perception of energy from a commodity business into a consumer brand.

Taking a fresh and much-needed perspective on the management of international acquisitions, this book focuses on socio-cultural integration, and in particular the importance of emotions and values.

Providing in-depth analysis, this book enables readers to understand the theoretical aspects of personal selling and explores the difficulties of selling services which are sensitive to cultural, age and gender differences, and to customers originating from diverse cultural zones.

This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017), highlighting the importance of engineering, project and product management in a region of the world that is in need of transformation and rebuilding.

This book explores coordination within and between teams in the context of large-scale agile software development, providing readers a deeper understanding of how coordinated action between teams is achieved in multiteam systems.

Collaboration among industry, universities and research institutes plays a vital role in stimulating open innovation, which in turn leads to new products, processes, services and business models.

This book equips managers and professionals with effective management tools and strategies, as well as important concepts to help them combat current challenges and problems.

This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue.

This book includes the papers presented at the II International Applied Research Conference "e;Operations and Project Management: Strategies and Trends"e; and the International Research Conference "e;Management in Financial Economy"e; held in Rostov-on-Don on May 19-20, 2021 within the framework of the South Russia Business Education Forum.

This volume brings together selected and extended papers representative of work presented at the 8th IPMA Research Conference, which was held online between 9th and 11th September 2020.

This third volume provides an executive overview of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and details the roles that executives play in PLM initiatives.

This book analyses mergers and acquisitions within the broader framework of strategic decisions.

The book covers the topic of the role of public sector in the economic and territorial development across several dimensions of spatial planning, e.

This book aims to account for how project learning and adaptation occurs through Developmental Evaluation (DE), especially under conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change.

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation.

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