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

Andler, Nicolai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3895783706 ISBN 13: 9783895783708

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 2011

Synopsis

Typically today′s tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work – all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook–style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness.

In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task–specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Information Consolidation, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox.

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
– easy to apply due to many different search options, checklists, application scenarios and guiding instructions.

Written by a professional consultant, business analyst and business coach, 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.

"This book is of the kind you always wanted but didn′t think would or could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving." Tom Sommerlatte.

About this title

About the Author

NICOLAI ANDLER
is management/IT consultant, business analyst and business coach. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and works for enterprises in South Africa and Central Europe.

After working for BSG (Business Systems Group) and Gemini Consulting Nicolai Andler started working as a freelance management and IT consultant, business analyst and business coach in 2003. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and works with companies in South Africa and Central Europe. www.nicolaiandler.com

From the Back Cover

This book is the kind you always wanted but didn t think would or could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving. Tom Sommerlatte

Typically today s tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook–style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness.

In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task–specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Creativity, Information Consolidation, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox.

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
• Easy to apply due to many different search options, checklists, application scenarios and guided instructions.

Written by a professional consultant, business analyst and business coach, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3895783706
• ISBN 13: 9783895783708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382