The Story of Managing Projects: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Young Hoon Kwak, Frank T. Anbari

Overview

Project management has been practiced for thousands of years, but only recently have organizations begun to apply systematic management tools and techniques to manage complex projects. Today's approaches to project management can be traced directly to methodologies designed by the U.S. military and Department of Defense in the years after World War II. Subsequent advances in management information systems have helped to codify project management practices; most recently, the Internet has dramatically enhanced the ability of individuals, teams, and organizations to manage projects across continents and cultures in real time. The Story of Managing Projects showcases cutting-edge research conducted around the world on emerging practices in project management. Covering an enormous spectrum of subjects and industries—from an upgrade of the Greek railway system to infrastructure reconstruction in Kuwait—the authors explore the full range of inter-personal, technical, and organizational dynamics of project management, contributing new insights to its theory and application.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567205060
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/30/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Management Science in the School of Business and Public Management, director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, and co-founder and co-director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) at the School of Business, GWU. He has published more than fourty refereed jourbanal articles and two books, The Strategic Management of Technological Learning and Idea Makers and Idea Brokers (Greenwood, 2003).

Young Hoon Kwak is a faculty member of the Project Management Program in the Management Science Department at The George Washington University.

Frank T. Anbari is a faculty member of the Project Management Program, in the Management Science Department of The George Washington University. He has served in project leadership positions at the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), Day and Zimmerman, and the American Water Works Service Company, and as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Fundamentals of Project Management
A Brief History of Project Management by Young Hoon Kwak
Background to Project Management by Harold Kerzner
Redefining the Foundations for Project Management by Francis Hartman
Best Practices in Project Management
Stakeholder Mapping and the Execution of Successful Projects: Embedding and Institutionalizing Learning as a Key Project Management Competence by Elias G. Carayannis, Frank T. Anbari, and Robert J. Voetsch
From Abstract User Requirements to Tangible Business Solutions: An Iterative Approach by Abdul Samad Kazi and Ian Wilson
The Cross-Applicability of Project Management in Multimedia Communication Platforms by Cheryl J. Walker
Team Culture Communicating = Semantics + Semiology by Philip Harvard
Better Project Management through Effective Meetings Management by Theodore H. Rosen
Scaling the Water Cooler: Digital Storytelling for Knowledge Continuity by Michael D. Kull
Defense Project Management Knowledge Flow through Lessons Learned Systems by Mark E. Nissen and Keith F. Snider
Project Managers' Changing Cognitive Schemata and the Achievement of Group Goals by Carolyn R. Spencer and Trevor Hine
Analyzing Failure in Project Management Systems Using an Integral Approach of the Fish Bone and the Fault Tree Techniques by Maged Sedky Morcos
Why Project Termination Tarries by Victor S. Sohmen
Lessons Learned from Industry
Project Management in the Engineering and Construction Industry by John A. Kuprenas
Project Management during the Reconstruction of Kuwait by Ralph V. Locurcio
Different Approaches to Managing Complex Construction Projects: Experiences of International Project Management by Wilco Tijhuis
Railway Project Management: Framework and Examples by Frank T. Anbari
The Management of Railway Construction and Upgrade Projects: A Study of the Experience in Greece by John-Paris Pantouvakis
Improving Project Management with the Analytical Design Planning Technique by Simon Austin, Andrew Newton, and Andrew Baldwin
Using the EFQM and Balanced Scorecards to Design Information System Strategy by Allen Woods
The Changing Project Management Requirements in the Communications Industry by Dan P. Ono
Creating Competencies: Project Management Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector by Frédéric Fontane, Patrice Houdayer, and Hervé Mathe
Agile Project Management Methods for IT Projects by Glen B. Alleman
Implementing Best Practice in Hospital Project Management by Raphael M. Dua
Conclusions and the Road Ahead by Elias G. Carayannis, Young Hoon Kwak, and Frank T. Anbari
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Figures and Tables