Managing the Unknown: A New Approach to Managing High Uncertainty and Risk in Projects

by Christoph H. Loch, Arnoud De Meyer, Michael T. Pich, et al.

Book Overview

Managing the Unknown offers a new way of looking at the problem ofmanaging projects in novel and unknown environments. From Europe'sleading business school, this book shows how to manage twofundamental approaches that, in combination, offer the possibilityof coping with unforeseen influences that inevitably arise in novelprojects:
* Trial-and-Error Learning allows for redefining the plan and theproject as the project unfolds
* Selectionism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471693057
• ISBN13: 9780471693055
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.6"