A must read for the project professional
New Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook
A new project management publication has been published recently which should be at the top of every project professional's reading list.
Background
We're now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential for every leader and manager.
Despite this, project failure rates remain extremely high. Why? Leaders oversee too many projects and have too little visibility into them. Project managers struggle to translate their hands-on, technical knowledge up to senior management. The result? Worthy projects are starved of time and resources and fail to deliver benefits, while too much investment goes into the wrong projects.
To compete in the project economy, you need to close this gap. The new publication is designed to help project professionals do just that.
About the The Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects
In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with international case studies from a range of industries, it will teach you how to manage your organization's projects, strategic programs and agile initiatives more effectively, and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in our project-driven world.
Click here for a quick introduction by the author, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez.
In the HBR Project Management Handbook you'll find:
- Everything you need to know about project management in practical, non-technical language
- A definitive taxonomy of project types, from product launches to digital transformations to mega-projects
- A roadmap for becoming an effective project leader and executive sponsor
- A new, simple and universal project framework – the Project Canvas – that breaks down any project into essential building blocks that can be easily understood by all stakeholders
- Original concepts and exclusive case studies from public- and private-sector organizations worldwide
You'll learn:
- A common language for project managers and executives to run successful projects across your organization
- When to use agile, traditional, or hybrid methods in your projects
- The twelve principles of successful projects including purpose, agility, and a focus on outcomes
- Techniques for selecting and advancing the best projects and managing a strategic and balanced project portfolio
- How today's projects will help address some of the most pressing global trends, including automation, sustainability, diversity and crisis management
- Why project management needed to be reinvented and what the future holds
Brimming with case studies, accessible tools, and proven methods, this new Handbook is the first pragmatic, hands-on book for anyone looking to lead more successful projects and for executives who aspire to become better project sponsors. Projects can bring ideas to reality. By utilizing the Project Canvas, everyone has the ability to transform the world through more inspiring projects.
The new Handbook is available now, priced from $29.99 in paperback and Amazon Kindle format. To order your copy of this must-read for project professionals, click here or on the button below.
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About the Author
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a global champion of project management. He is the creator of concepts such as the “Hierarchy of Purpose” featured by Harvard Business Review, and the “Project Economy”.
Antonio’s research and global impact in modern management has been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice” and is ranked #17 in the global gurus top 30 list. He was the global Chairman of the Project Management Institute in 2016.
His work focuses on advising senior leaders on how to lead transformational change, prioritize and implement strategic initiatives, build high-performing teams, work across silos and become a learning organization; all essential elements to create a culture that strives for execution, excellence, and collaboration.
Antonio is currently the Director of the PMO at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Previously he worked as Head of Project Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis. Prior he was Head of Post-Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, leading the acquisition of ABN AMBRO, the largest in financial service history. He also worked for ten years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, becoming the global lead practitioner for project and change management.
At the start of 2020, Antonio co-founded the Strategy Implementation Institute. Research points to alarming statistics regarding the ability of organizations to effectively develop and implementation strategies. With organizations crafting strategies more frequently than at any other time in history, the Institute was established to support managers and business leaders with strategy development, planning and execution. The Institute has developed a Strategy Implementation Roadmap which provides a step-by-step guide for managers and executives on HOW to implement a strategy. The Roadmap provides the basis for the supporting Strategy Implementation Professional training course and certification, developed in partnership with APMG.
