Management of IT

This book explains how to apply the time-tested principles of project management to maximize limited resources and ensure the highest possible quality of care. It dissects the project process and provides the tools and techniques required to successfully plan, execute, and control any healthcare-bas..

Grounded in practicality, this book explains the procedures for running a successful project and highlights the finer points of managing and controlling the project. Written specifically for those responsible for the hands-on managing of projects, the book is also useful to overal program managers a..

Although project planning is known to be critical to project success, it remains a relatively under-studied area of project management research. This book draws on a literature review of planning that covers more than 270 sources. It also discusses new research that analyzed data from more than 1,30..

Incomplete or missed requirements, omissions, ambiguous product features, lack of user involvement, unrealistic customer expectations, and the proverbial scope creep can result in cost overruns, missed deadlines, poor product quality, and can very well ruin a project. This book explains how to elici..

This book gives managers an integrative approach to project, program, and change management. It describes the differences between change in projects versus programs with case studies in both areas and the different life cycles. While the project and change comprise much of the book, it is up to date..

This book introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results. It brings together experts from the academic, military, and business worlds to explore project management in the context of complexity theory and organizations. The book provides a ..

This volume is an extensive collection of chapters discussing Folsom artifacts and sites, as well as innovative experiments undertaken to understand Folsom technology and lifeways. Public and private collections of Folsom artifacts were brought together with professional and amateur lithic analysts ..

Projects are risky undertakings, and modern approaches to managing projects recognise the central need to manage the risk as an integral part of the project management discipline. Managing Risk in Projects places risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, an..

The book focuses on the benefits of project management to the organization. The goal is to provide senior executives a view as what project management can deliver to the organizational strategies. The book covers the entire spectrum of project management from a management and leadership perspective...

This book explores the problem of the loss of corporate expertise. It explains how to meet the challenge of capturing hard-to-replicate knowledge, skills and attitudes from legacy employees and packaging it in a way to reach new generations of workers. Finally, the book presents a methodology for ef..

Your customers want innovation and value, and they want it now. How can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your enterprise to drive operational excellence, reduce costs while improving quality, enable efficient growth, and accelerate idea-to-value innovation? Shingo Prize-winning aut..

With organizations facing growing security challenges from both automated and manual attacks, these incidents now represent more of a threat to the bottom line than ever before. This book explains the problems in corporate information security and how to solve them. Based on more than a decade of gl..