Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure

Project failures are not confined to the development world. In 2004 Hartman and Ashrafi found that the project failure rate is above 60 percent for construction, engineering, and other technology projects, despite all the advances in project management theory and practice. This book's interest,...

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Main Authors:	Zall Kusek, Jody, Görgens Prestidge, Marelize, Hamilton, Billy C.
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Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:	accountability advertising broadcasts chain of command cities civil society collapse collective communication networks company confidence cronyism Decision making Disasters displaced persons domain e-mail economic development enabling environment equipment families family planning federal government female food industry food processing global economy government officials government organizations government services health care health services homes hospitals houses housing human resources Hygiene implementation plan individuals informal relationships information networks information sharing innovation institutional rules interest groups international actors international competitiveness intervention interventions investigators knowledge management leadership license licenses limited little attention living arrangements management systems managerial skills managers manufacturing marketing material media minister mortality patient performance indicators performance measures personal communication personal gain phones pilot testing politicians postnatal care private sector productivity Project management protocols Public Administration public funds queries radio regulatory agency regulatory authority result results rural area rural areas rural communities rural development safety scandal search engine service delivery sex workers small businesses social networks social research society Sponsorship stakeholder Stakeholder Approach stakeholder management stakeholder relationships Stakeholders subsistence farmers supervision targets Taxonomy technical assistance technical expertise technical experts telecommunication telecommunication connections Telephone Transaction translation transmission transparency types of organizations user victims violence virus waste work environment youth
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spelling	okr-10986-157702021-04-23T14:03:22Z Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure Zall Kusek, Jody Görgens Prestidge, Marelize Hamilton, Billy C. accountability advertising broadcasts chain of command cities civil society collapse collective communication networks company confidence cronyism Decision making Disasters displaced persons domain e-mail economic development enabling environment equipment families family planning federal government female food industry food processing global economy government officials government organizations government services health care health services homes hospitals houses housing human resources Hygiene implementation plan individuals informal relationships information networks information sharing innovation institutional rules interest groups international actors international competitiveness intervention interventions investigators knowledge management leadership license licenses limited little attention living arrangements management systems managerial skills managers manufacturing marketing material media minister mortality patient performance indicators performance measures personal communication personal gain phones pilot testing politicians postnatal care private sector productivity Project management protocols Public Administration public funds queries radio regulatory agency regulatory authority result results rural area rural areas rural communities rural development safety scandal search engine service delivery sex workers small businesses social networks social research society Sponsorship stakeholder Stakeholder Approach stakeholder management stakeholder relationships Stakeholders subsistence farmers supervision targets Taxonomy technical assistance technical expertise technical experts telecommunication telecommunication connections Telephone Transaction translation transmission transparency types of organizations user victims violence virus waste work environment youth Project failures are not confined to the development world. In 2004 Hartman and Ashrafi found that the project failure rate is above 60 percent for construction, engineering, and other technology projects, despite all the advances in project management theory and practice. This book's interest, however, is in the very large percentage of projects not subject to events beyond the control of project managers. In this regard, attention to the possibility of failure is the best guarantee of success. Understandably, public managers may be uncomfortable with such an inherently negative approach to managing public projects, which are, after all, designed and intended to produce a public good or to solve a public problem. The point is not to be pessimistic but realistic in managing public projects. Anticipating and solving problems can avert compounding those problems and the failures that result. And this book delivered five rule to avoid project failure: i) make it about the how; ii) keep your champions close but your critics closer; iii) informal networks matter-work with them; iv) unclog the pipes; and v) build the ship as it sails. 2013-09-13T21:08:13Z 2013-09-13T21:08:13Z 2013-05 978-0-8213-9896-8 10.1596/978-0-8213-9896-8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15770 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication
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spellingShingle	accountability advertising broadcasts chain of command cities civil society collapse collective communication networks company confidence cronyism Decision making Disasters displaced persons domain e-mail economic development enabling environment equipment families family planning federal government female food industry food processing global economy government officials government organizations government services health care health services homes hospitals houses housing human resources Hygiene implementation plan individuals informal relationships information networks information sharing innovation institutional rules interest groups international actors international competitiveness intervention interventions investigators knowledge management leadership license licenses limited little attention living arrangements management systems managerial skills managers manufacturing marketing material media minister mortality patient performance indicators performance measures personal communication personal gain phones pilot testing politicians postnatal care private sector productivity Project management protocols Public Administration public funds queries radio regulatory agency regulatory authority result results rural area rural areas rural communities rural development safety scandal search engine service delivery sex workers small businesses social networks social research society Sponsorship stakeholder Stakeholder Approach stakeholder management stakeholder relationships Stakeholders subsistence farmers supervision targets Taxonomy technical assistance technical expertise technical experts telecommunication telecommunication connections Telephone Transaction translation transmission transparency types of organizations user victims violence virus waste work environment youth Zall Kusek, Jody Görgens Prestidge, Marelize Hamilton, Billy C. Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
description	Project failures are not confined to the development world. In 2004 Hartman and Ashrafi found that the project failure rate is above 60 percent for construction, engineering, and other technology projects, despite all the advances in project management theory and practice. This book's interest, however, is in the very large percentage of projects not subject to events beyond the control of project managers. In this regard, attention to the possibility of failure is the best guarantee of success. Understandably, public managers may be uncomfortable with such an inherently negative approach to managing public projects, which are, after all, designed and intended to produce a public good or to solve a public problem. The point is not to be pessimistic but realistic in managing public projects. Anticipating and solving problems can avert compounding those problems and the failures that result. And this book delivered five rule to avoid project failure: i) make it about the how; ii) keep your champions close but your critics closer; iii) informal networks matter-work with them; iv) unclog the pipes; and v) build the ship as it sails.
format	Publications & Research :: Publication
author	Zall Kusek, Jody Görgens Prestidge, Marelize Hamilton, Billy C.
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title	Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
title_short	Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
title_full	Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
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title_full_unstemmed	Fail-Safe Management : Five Rules to Avoid Project Failure
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publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
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