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'International Project Management' provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents. The purpose of this book is to answer: * What is an international project and why is it different? * What are the critical success factors for managing international projects? * How are vendors and outsourcing managed across national boundaries? * How do businesses effectively address cross- cultural, social, and political issues? * How are international communications set up and coordinated? * What should a manager look for in an international project leader? * How does a business select the right vendors for an international project? * How are inadequate or incompatible infrastructure and technology issues overcome? * How are the legal and bureaucratic limitations on project management dealt with?

An ideal course text that helps students to identify, manage and solve problems that arise during the lifecycle of projects. This problem-based approach encourages students to develop analytical and problem-solving skills and to get a more complete understanding of the factors that contribute to project success.

Contains guidelines to implement change that works. This book helps develop a change management strategy that starts by diagnosing the culture and organization, then prepares for change, addresses resistance to change, develops the change strategy, measures results, builds momentum for further change, and prevents deterioration and reversion.

Provides a proven approach to project management. This book includes common project examples across chapters and provides historical examples. It covers topics such as risk management, international and multinational projects, and project culture. It takes advantage of the Web and Internet tools, and provides an appendix covering web sites.

How does a business select the right vendors for an international project? This work presents over 150 specific lessons learned and guidelines for managing international projects. It explains how businesses can effectively address this problem, and shows how a business can select the right vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries.

Presents technology implementation guidelines and lessons. This book considers how to apply concurrent engineering to software development. It includes experience and tips to develop intranet/Internet based applications.

Methods of improving business processes are developed on an ongoing basis, but few are successful. This book present a step-by-step approach to the issue of effective process improvement, offering more than 200 tips and guidelines as well as addressing specific common problems and issues, outlining common faults and lessons learned.

Surveys indicate that many E-Business efforts either fail or disrupt the basic business processes and transactions. E-Business is sometimes not aligned with the business or IT. This book covers E-Business from the review of the business at the start to expanding E-Business after it is live.

Implementing e-business requires a dynamic approach that can respond to changes in technology, management direction, customer and supplier behavior, and competition. Many traditional project management methods don't work with e-business. This book presents real world management methods that are adaptive and flexible in an e-business environment.

E-business occurs when a company has established critical business procedures and activities to support e-commerce transactions. This title helps you to: implement e-business in 13 specific actions; motivate employees to participate in e-business; achieve flexible business processes; and, deal with technical, vendor, and other e-business issues.

Helps you to identify and track the recurring issues leading to failure in IT projects and provide a proven, modern method for addressing them. This book shows how to set up an issues database for better identification and tracking of issues, providing an Early Warning System to help move the project to success.

Presents over 200 specific, practical guidelines and steps that show how to: align IT and the business, develop methods that make IT more proactive in helping the business, more effectively manage vendors, avoid negative surprises, ensure that more projects are completed on time and within budget, among other things.

Provides tangible guidelines through examples and suggestions to help people participate in and manage projects more effectively. This book aims to anwser questions such as how can the overall technology project management process be improved, which systems projects should be given resources and approved for action, and others.