ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

Allan offers in-depth guidance on project management for librarians working alone and for those working in large organizations. Topics covered include project life cycle and analysis, planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination, finance, personnel, partnerships, and more.

Strategic Project Management is about managing business strategy in the most effective way so that it delivers organizational breakthroughs. This refreshing book sees the authors bring techniques from the world of business strategy and apply them to the traditional area of project management. The authors explain the process of managing complex projects by combining business analysis and project management techniques in order for an organization to implement their business strategy and get the results they desire. Grundy and Brown argue that detailed strategic thinking is best approached through strategic project management, not just through business strategy. They show how to accomplish the initial planning efficiently and how to implement the strategy effectively, making this an ideal book for middle and senior managers working on projects at the strategic level, and also students studying project management.

Former editor-in-chief for the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Francis M. Webster Jr. refers to himself as "the Olde Curmudgeon." After reading his new book, it is difficult to see how this description applies. What Webster delivers in PM 101 According to the Olde Curmudgeon: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Project Management is insider information dispensed with a friendly arm-around-the-shoulders approach.

Problem Solver. Troubleshooter. Fire Fighter. If you are an operational manager, you have penciled these on your job description under "other duties not assigned." It seems to be a law of business that the best and brightest end up using their talents to minimize losses and contain damage with only their intuition as a guide. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to have a guidebook aimed at making crisis management easier and, ultimately, more profitable? The Project Surgeon: A Troubleshooter’s Guide to Business Crisis Management—written by career project manager Boris Hornjak—arms the reader with practical tools and methods to solve, not avoid, problems.

Striving for agile, adaptive teams and organizations is a growing trend in management education, and for good reason. Modern organizations operate in an environment of intense competitive pressure and technological uncertainty. No Surprises Project Management anticipated this trend and remains the best documented description of how pressure and uncertainty, when not addressed, combine to produce mediocre to poor performance. More importantly, No Surprises Project Management provides key principles and a system of practices for achieving excellent performance even in the most challenging high stakes environments.

While project managers are consistently expected to create the WBS as the cornerstone of their project plans, there are limited references on how to actually go about crafting one that works. The book provides readers with the different approaches to WBS construction, highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches, examines the implications of the different styles of WBS and the level of depth that a project requires.

Offers a variety of perspectives on software project management, cost estimation, and software life cycle support. For both developers and line managers. Softcover.

This volume examines whether the present "era of finance" represents the best possible way of organizing economic affairs, arguing the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance.

European Financial Reporting analyzes the revolution that is currently taking place in the financial reporting of the major European companies, following the European Union's decision that from they must present their accounts according to the IASB's standards. The book covers both the theory of financial reporting and its practice at both national and international level. It covers the very latest developments in the EU and the IASB with a detailed analysis of the impact of the Enron scandal.

More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers. However, rising health-care costs may threaten the long-term viability of the employer-based insurance system. This report explores trends in the economic burden associated with HI provision for small and large businesses, as well as the quality of plans that small and large firms offer.

A veteran trader takes a Zen approach to the stock market, applying fundamental principles of Zen Buddhism in place of traditional economic thought and encouraging investors to put egos aside and listen to the marketplace in a tested method for success.