Accelerating Business and IT Change Is Essential For Anyone Seeking To Define the Nature and Value of What They Expect From Their Projects.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43967) has announced the addition of Accelerating Business and IT Change: Transforming Project Delivery to their offering. 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 Noun 1. cost overrun - excess of cost over budget; "the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget" cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor and fail to deliver their expected benefits. Business people who must have more certainty in their project investments will find this book on CD refreshing. It contains commonsense com·mon·sense adj. Having or exhibiting native good judgment: "commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius" Times Literary Supplement. 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 PRINCE2e within a framework of new thinking, innovative techniques and hard-nosed portfolio management. It 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 Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. ; which is the ultimate aim of the organizations that are investing time, resources and money in projects of this kind. This CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). version contains a radical innovation - a hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the version of the book. You are enabled to interact with the book to reassemble re·as·sem·ble v. re·as·sem·bled, re·as·sem·bling, re·as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or gather together again: reassembled the band for a reunion tour. 2. the text around your own thinking as you read. Even more importantly you can use the book as a gateway to the world of project management and much more. When your PC is on-line to the internet you can click on a word or phrase and instantly initiate a public search engine to retrieve matching material and references. This is not just a book on innovative techniques for project management, but the key to a library - the biggest library in the world: the World Wide Web. Accelerating Business and IT Change is essential for anyone seeking to define the nature and value of what they expect from their projects, set realistic implementation schedules and then ensure that all the intended benefits are realized. Content Outline: * Preface pref·ace n. 1. a. A preliminary statement or essay introducing a book that explains its scope, intention, or background and is usually written by the author. b. An introductory section, as of a speech. 2. * Acknowledgements * About the authors * Recognizing project success * Benefits, business opportunities and threats * Making the business case * Planning * Project authorization The right or permission to use a system resource; the process of granting access. See access control. * Risk * Organizing the project * Accelerating the project: controlling progress and costs * Managing changes to the project * Executing the business change * Enabling the business to change * Glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. * Index For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43967 |
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