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Doing the Right Project - Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Select Successful Projects
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About this book
Description
As projects grow in complexity, systems thinking becomes essential. Both a mindset and a toolkit, it ensures that resources are assigned to the right project by comprehensively testing and understanding key factors:
- Is the ‘problem’ thoroughly understood?
- Will the ‘solution’ proposed fix the problem, or move it elsewhere?
- Can the project deliver the solution successfully within the constraints of technology, resources, time and budget?
Doing the Right Project: Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Select Successful Projects introduces systems thinking, explains its value in selecting and validating projects, and shows how to avoid investing in those projects unlikely to deliver expected benefits. It goes on to cover key considerations for selection and approval, and finally presents tools and techniques, each with examples, strengths and weaknesses, and recommended resources for those wishing to explore further.
Written for those identifying, defining, sponsoring or commissioning projects such as programme managers, executives, portfolio managers, CFOs and other sponsors. Project managers involved at the formative stages of a project should also find this guide useful.
Details
Author: Systems Thinking Interest Network
Publisher: APM
ISBN: 9781913305468
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
Price:£20
Publication date: September 2025