Leading and managing innovation : what every executive team must know about project, program, and portfolio management

Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgments -- Innovations are achieved through projects -- The essence of the key project management concepts -- Categories and characteristics of projects -- Project portfolio management -- Project management offices (pmos) -- Managing individual projects -- What executives must demand to achieve effective project management -- Maturity of organizations in project management -- Development of the profession of project management -- Summary: what all executives need to know -- Desiring to innovate...83 -- Appendix: project manager duties and responsibilities -- References -- Index -- About the authors