Effective Project and Change Sponsorship: Getting the Most from Your Strategic Investments - Softcover

Schibi, Ori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604271744 ISBN 13: 9781604271744

Verlag: J Ross Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Effective Project and Change Sponsorship addresses the challenges that organizations face surrounding the sponsorship of projects and change initiatives. This long overdue book provides techniques, remedies, and approaches to improve the way these initiatives are sponsored, led, and executed to ensure context, alignment, and a focus on value creation. Readers will learn key concepts about specific aspects of project sponsorship, including overcoming the most common and challenging project-related obstacles, connecting the key elements of project and change management, and advanced techniques to effectively engage stakeholders and manage their expectations.

This book provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to sponsoring initiatives across the organization. It gives sponsors a toolbox to deal with a variety of challenges and situations in any type of project life cycle (including agile and waterfall). Sponsors will learn how to lead their initiatives from inception to success by reducing waste, redundancies, misunderstandings, and misalignments. In addition, they will also discover how to overcome organizational silos, effectively handle organizational politics, and facilitate the building of high-performing teams.

This guide is designed for senior managers, organizational leaders, project managers, change practitioners, and anyone who is involved in leading initiatives in the organization&;including managers of PMOs, members of steering committees, and &;accidental&; project or change sponsors.

Key Features:

&; Digs deep into understanding the nature of organizational change and how to effectively deal with the main challenges associated with change initiatives
&; Details concepts that are aligned with the latest trends in organizational change management, project management, and those items that connect them together
&; Proposes solutions to challenges around sponsor capacity and project resource allocation
&; Applies practical concepts to better manage stakeholder expectations and effectively engage them
&; Anticipates emerging trends and the future of project sponsorship with a focus on value creation and how to best lead an organization&;s most valuable assets&;its people
&; WAV features an initial impact audit and tools for stakeholder analysis, among other valuable documents&;available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

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Ori Schibi, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP, SMC, CMP, Agile-PM, is president of PM Konnectors, an international consulting practice based in Toronto. With a focus on disciplined agile practices, project management, change management, and organizational agility, PM Konnectors provides a variety of services which delivers tangible value and quick turnaround to their clients. Many large to mid-sized organizations in diverse industries and levels of governments have benefited from their wide range of innovative business solutions. Mr. Schibi is a thought-leader and subject matter expert in organizational change, agile, and project management. He is the author of Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success and co-author of Effective PM and BA Role Collaboration and Agile Business Analysis. Ori is also a speaker and consultant with over 25 years of proven experience in driving value creation, improving organizational agility, and effectively dealing with complex programs to stabilize business, create growth and value, and lead sustainable change.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: J Ross Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1604271744
• ISBN 13: 9781604271744
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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