Creating the Project Office: A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change

Randall L. Englund, Robert Graham, Paul C. Dinsmore9780787963989, 0787963984

Creating the Project Office is written for managers who are searching for ways to transform their organizations into more effective and efficient project-based workplaces. As this important book reveals, there is no more effective way to make that change than to create a project office tailored to the needs of the organization. While a project office model leads to better products from projects, it is also a vehicle for generating overall organizational change- by transforming the organization from function-based to project-based. This model incorporates projects into the very fabric of the organizational strategy and revitalizes organizations, creates competitive advantage, and increases shareholder value.

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Table of contents :
CREATING THE
PROJECT OFFICE……Page 7
Copyright……Page 8
CONTENTS……Page 11
PREFACE……Page 13
THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS……Page 19
PART ONE: CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CHANGE……Page 25
1 Leading Organizational Change……Page 31
2 Clear Danger: Creating a Sense of Urgency
and Economic Value……Page 57
3 Powerful Forces: Building a Guiding Coalition……Page 77
4 Focus: Developing and Communicating the Project Of.ce
Vision and Strategy……Page 107
5 Tell the Tale: Harnessing Internal Support Robert Storeygard, 3M……Page 133
PART TWO: MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN……Page 149
6 Contact: Managing the Change……Page 153
7 Implementing the Project Of.ce: Case Study Alfonso Bucero, PMP……Page 191
8 Keep Moving: Getting Your Arms Around Chaos Colonel Gary LaGassey, USAF……Page 221
9 In or Out? Staf.ng and Operating the Project Of.ce……Page 243
PART THREE: MAKING CHANGE STICK……Page 269
10 Looking Forward: Embedding Project Practices
in the Culture of the Organization Dennis Cohen, Strategic Management Group……Page 273
11 The Tale We Tell……Page 301
Appendix: Templates for Project Of.ce Planning……Page 315
REFERENCES……Page 323
INDEX……Page 327