Description
Book SynopsisThe seven essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget
You're executing risk management, leadership, and planning--all hallmarks of outstanding project management. And yet you're still having trouble keeping your projects on schedule.
Creative Project Management adds two new elements to the mix: creativity and innovation.
Internationally renowned project management consultants Michael Dobson and Ted Leemann combine traditional project management skills, such as risk evaluation, decision-making, and human dynamics, with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. They provide seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project.
The methods discussed inside Creative Project Management show you how to:
- Realistically imagine the outcome of your decisions
- Work with--and around--the realities and constraints that affect your decisions
- Read and predict trends
- Manage the long- and short-term ramifications of your
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. What If; Chapter 3. Organizations are Organisms Too; Chapter 4. Trendspotting; Chapter 5. Today Isn't Tomorrow – or Next Week; Chapter 6. The Butterfly Effect: Readers learn to extrapolate previously unforeseen ramifications of their decisions; Chapter 7. Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose Chapter 8. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It; Chapter 9. Section II: Applying SideWise Principles; Chapter 10. Scenario 1: The "Or Else" Product Launch; Chapter 11. Scenario 2: A Political Dilemma; Conclusion
