What defines whether a project or programme is “good” or “bad”? When we’re striving for excellence in the execution of our projects and programmes, what do we mean? IPMA has given its extended definition in the PEB, the Project Excellence Baseline. This model is based on the well-known EFQM model, but is adapted to the field of project- and programme management and after over 10 years of use has been adapted to the model we’re using now.

Solving Managerial Problems Systematically teaches the seven steps of General Business Problem Solving. With this system it will become clear what is the main problem and how it can be researched properly and subsequently solved. This studybook describes a problem as a analytical concept that can occur in all organizations and in any department. This methodology is therefor applicable in almost any situation. Solving Managerial Problems Systematically is intended for all hbo-courses where stu...

What are the innate and universal ingredients to stimulate employee well-being and performance? This book will help you learn more about these, based on the latest research in motivational science.

Motivation is the key to our lives. Whether at work, at home, at school or on the sports field, we constantly need to find ways to motivate ourselves and those we support. What if, instead of motivational tricks, we could rely on a positive, universal, and surprisingly simple point of view: that of...

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers. The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be ...

Project management is characterised by systematic and integral control of the development process, from creative idea to concrete product. This book concentrates on the management of event projects. Events such as festivals, exhibitions, conferences, arts productions, sports events and company events draw a lot of attention. An initiative frequently ends in failure, because the funding cannot be finalised, deadlines are not met or budgets are exceeded. The professional approach of a project c...

This book brings together The Open Group’s set of publications addressing risk management, which have been developed and approved by The Open Group. It is presented in three parts:

The Technical Standard for Risk Taxonomy

Technical Guide to the Requirements for Risk Assessment Methodologies

Technical Guide: FAIR – ISO/IEC 27005 Cookbook

Part 1: Technical Standard for Risk Taxonomy This Part provides a standard definition and taxonomy for information security risk, as well as information...

The aim of this leading textbook is to provide a thorough understanding of the theories, approaches and practice of organisational change. It critically examines the approaches to change that are on offer, indicates their usefulness and drawbacks and sets them within the broad context of organisational life through the use of real-life examples.

- International Business can be widely used as a general introduction to international entrepreneurship;

- appealing examples from everyday practice and facts & figures make international business come to life;

- places international entrepreneurship in a European context.

International Business is an accessible textbook that highlights the basic principles of international entrepreneurship. It is the English version of Internationaal ondernemen and can be widely used as an introduction to in...

Kim Spinder is an innovator and 'pirate'. She won The Harvard M-Prize for Management Innovation, founded Deelstoel.nl, and the Open Innovation Festival. She is a very popular speaker. She herself stopped using email on January 1, 2011. Since then her life has changed dramatically and this book may changeyours forever too. Let's break the endless cycle of email. After all, it was not invented as a tool of mass communication. It is best used for sending documents and one-on-one communication. B...

Wicked World advocates the need to acknowledge the complex contexts in which managers, professionals and policymakers operate. Conventional tools do not serve us well in these new contexts, and regularly, aggravate the situation. This book offers a systemic perspective in exploring complex challenges and a sensemaking framework to deal with interconnected, persistent problems. Looking beyond the problem; seeking deeper patterns and linkages to other problems; realizing that cause and effect m...