Creative Project Management

In Creative Project Management, internationally renowned project management consultants Michael Dobson and Ted Leemann combine traditional project management skills with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. Covering important aspects such as decision-making, risk evaluation and human dynamics, this text also gives all readers an invaluable new set of tools  that will enable you to make difficult decisions for the successful execution of leadership, risk management and keeping projects on schedule. This text provides seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project. 272 pages.

The methods discussed inside Creative Project Management show you how to:

• Evaluate the impact of present and future technologies on your decisions
•  Read and predict trends
• Manage the long- and short-term ramifications of your decisions
• Realistically imagine the outcome of your decisions
• Work with--and around--the realities and constraints that affect your decisions
• Imagine new choices you didn't think you had

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