J. Kent Crawford

Gebundenes Buch

The Strategic Project Office

Beschreibung

In its second edition, this seminal text provides step-by-step instructions for establishing and maturing a PMO. The author emphasizes cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity. He explores various aspects relating to planning and implementing the strategic project office, and concludes by considering how to change the organizational culture to match the new organization. Concise and easy to read, the book includes cutting-edge research and case studies on PMO functions and roles to highlight best practices. An assessment model for measuring PMO practice maturity is included.

Autor

J. Kent Crawford, PMP, is the founder and CEO of Project Management Solutions, Inc. (PM Solutions), a management consulting and training firm headquartered in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. The company specializes in applying the project management discipline throughout organizations to improve enterprise business performance. Prior to establishing PM Solutions, Crawford served as president and chairman of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Crawford is a recipient of the PMI Fellow Award and the award-winning author of The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational Performance (for which he won the 2002 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award from PMI), Project Management Maturity Model: Providing a Proven Path to Project Management Excellence, and Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office. His latest book, Seven Steps to Strategy Execution, provides the framework for organizations to execute and deliver corporate strategy through the use of Strategy Performance Management. Jeannette Cabanis Brewin is editor-in-chief for PM Solutions.

Produktdetails

• PM Solutions Research
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9781439838129
• ISBN-10: 1439838127
• Artikelnr.: 29953731