The Economist Guide To Change And Project Management: Getting it right and achieving lasting benefit

by Paul Roberts

Change is a powerful force, but one that must be directed if it is to have a positive and calculated outcome. It can be shaped according to the needs of an organisation to grow or contract, respond to competition or threat, or simply to keep pace with the world around it.

It is widely understood by leaders and managers that only effective project management has the potential to deliver the transformation they seek. However, many projects have failed to deliver the outcomes that their sponsors anticipated. Too many have produced apps, buildings, processes, products and services that remain on the shelf, unadopted, and a costly reminder that projects are vehicles that can just as easily deliver failure as success.

The revised and expanded third edition of this much-admired guide explains the principles and techniques of change and project management. With its clear, structured approach it is an invaluable handbook for helping leaders and managers to be sufficiently informed, equipped and confident to use projects to deliver change, and to realise its benefits.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

Published November 5, 2020

About the author

Paul Roberts is an experienced change management practitioner and a founding director of Fifthday (www.fifthday.com). He has consulted widely, and regularly provides related training and education programmes.

He has worked with some of the world's largest, most influential companies, and many of the smallest, both public and private, helping them all to embed the principles, techniques and culture of effective project management.

To contact Paul, please email paul@fifthday.com

"Without doubt the best PM educator in the UK today."

Reviews

[AnnaZ. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is well written, covers tons of basic information about change and project management and contains many useful graphs, tables and diagrams.
I would recommend the book as a good handbook for projects managers who constantly need to refresh their knowledge on the methodologies and frameworks. (And this book is much much better and helpful than the PM Book from Project Management Institute).

[RICARDO]

Great book

[Dennis Chow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive, informative well written book. I highly recommend it.

[Ingrid Bagarean · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the easiest to digest books on project management and change management. Loved it.