Tools for Project Management, Workshops and Consulting: A Must–Have Compendium of Essential Tools and Techniques - Hardcover

Andler, Nicolai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3895783021 ISBN 13: 9783895783029

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 2008

Synopsis

Typically today′s management tasks include project management, running workshops and working with consultancies – all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This book gives you a reference or cookbook–style access to the most important skills in a user–friendly format.
Nicolai Andler presents in his book about 100 of such tools arranged according to task complexes. To make personal use of the tools as easy as possible, they are grouped into task–specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, Project Management, Checklists and Questions as well as Scenarios.
Elements of information this books covers:
– Relevant and appropriate for your needs
– Up to date and as timely as possible
– Comprehensive and sufficiently wide in scope, combined with a practical level of detail without being too academic
– Reliable information from numerous tested sources and real implemented cases
– Accessible and easy–to–use due to many different search options and self–help guides
This book is a unique reference work and guide for those wanting to learn about or who are active in the fields of consulting, project management and problem solving in general. It presents cookbook–style access to most important skills, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness.

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Review

Prof. Dr. Tom Sommerlatte: "This book is the kind you always wanted to have and didn´t think would and could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving."

From the Back Cover

Typically today′s management tasks include project management, running workshops and working with consultancies – all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This book gives you a reference or cookbook–style access to the most important skills in a user–friendly format.

In this book, Nicolai Andler presents about 100 of such tools, grouped into task–specific categories entitle Define Situation, Gather Information, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, Project Management, Checklists and Questions as well as Scenarios.

Information provided by this book is:

• comprehensive and sufficiently wide in scope, combined with a practical level of detail without being too academic
• reliable and proven in numerous real implemented cases
• accessible and easy–to–use due to many different search options and self–help guides.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3895783021
• ISBN 13: 9783895783029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300