Business & Economics/Project Management
An exclusive portal to the methods and tools the ROI Instituteuses to determine return on investment in project management
To survive this modern age of financially skeptical ‘show me the ROI’ investors, it is a crucial step for companies to develop aneffective project management strategy in order to stay ahead of thecurve and achieve success. Project Management ROI takes theguesswork out of determining how to monetarily value projects byteaching the time-tested Return on Investment (ROI) methodology. Itpresents these results-based concepts in a methodical, reproduciblemanner that project managers, executives, and analysts can use as avalidated reference for future projects. This book focuses on anarray of measures to forecast project value and collect data duringand after implementation, including reaction, learning, applicationand implementation, impact, return on investment, and intangibles.Project Management ROI:
* Is the first book from the renowned ROI Institute to focus onproject management ROI
* Provides both the tools and methodology for measuring the ROI ofproject management investments
* Will help project managers discover the value of specificproject management solutions to justify project expenditures
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.
Chapter 1. Project Management Issues and Challenges.
Chapter 2. The Project Management Life Cycle.
Chapter 3. ROI Methodology Basics.
Chapter 4. Achieving Business Alignment with the Project.
Chapter 5. Measuring Reaction and Learning.
Chapter 6. Measuring Application and Implementation.
Chapter 7. Measuring Business Impact.
Chapter 8. Isolation of Project Impact.
Chapter 9. Converting Data to Money.
Chapter 10. Measuring the Intangibles.
Chapter 11. Monitoring Project Costs and Calculating ROI.
Chapter 12. Forecasting Value, Including ROI.
Chapter 13. Reporting Results.
Chapter 14. Implementing and Sustaining ROI.
Notes.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Dr. Jack J. Phillips is Chairman of the ROI Institute(www.roiinstitute.net.) and a world-renowned expert on measurementand evaluation. Phillips provides consulting services for Fortune500 companies and workshops for major conference providersworldwide. Phillips is also the author or editor of more thanthirty books and more than a hundred articles. His work has beenfeatured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, and on CNN.
Wayne Brantley, MSEd, PMP, CRP, CPLP, is the Senior Director of Professional Education for the University Alliance(www.universityalliance.com). He has taught and consulted onproject management, quality management, leadership, curriculumdevelopment, Internet course development, and return on investmentto Fortune 500 companies around the world.
Dr. Patricia Pulliam Phillips is an internationallyrecognized author, consultant, and President and CEO of the ROIInstitute, Inc. Phillips provides consulting services toorganizations worldwide. She helps organizations build capacity inthe ROI methodology by facilitating the ROI certification processand teaching the ROI methodology through workshops andgraduate-level courses.