Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary

by Keith White-Hunt and Stephen Wearne

Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and unexpected work demands an instant start, in contrast to the often lengthy processes of investigation, evaluation, development, selection and planning normal in businesses and public services before the start of a project. Managing the Urgent and Unexpected explores what is different managerially if work is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367670089
• ISBN13: 9780367670085
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages