The Business of Projects
Managing Innovation in Complex Products and Systems
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The Business of Projects
Managing Innovation in Complex Products and Systems
About this book
The Business of Projects broke ground when it was first published in 2005, by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organisations become more dynamic and adaptable. The book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and production of high-value complex products and systems (CoPS), which have always been project-based. As well as frameworks and management tools, it provides case studies of high-technology industries - such as telecommunications, flight simulation and medical devices - to show how projects are used to achieve strategic objectives, perform systems integration, organise productive activities, manage software, achieve organisational learning and deliver solutions for customers. This book is essential reading for project professionals, academics, students, engineers, managers and policy makers seeking a strategic, innovative perspective on projects.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The dynamics of innovation in complex products and systems
- 3 Business strategy and project capability
- 4 Systems integration and competitive advantage
- 5 The project-based organisation
- 6 Managing software-intensive projects
- 7 Learning in the project business
- 8 Integrated solutions for customers
- 9 Lessons for the project business
- Appendix A: Project-based organisation: case objectives, method and limitations
- Appendix B: Applying organisation development techniques to software processes
- Appendix C: Research leading to the project capability building model
- References
- Index