Managing Multiple Projects or Super Searchers Do Business

Managing Multiple Projects: Planning, Scheduling, and Allocating Resources for Competitive Advantage, Vol. 5

Author: James S Pennypacker

"Details time-efficient and cost-effective strategies to evaluate, select, prioritize, plan, and manage multiple projects. Presents proven methods and practical applications for the development of successful project portfolios and prosperous multiproject environments. Provides useful models and scheduling frameworks for increasecd quality and productivity."

Booknews

Project leaders, managers, and team members, as well as cost engineers, analysts, and students in project management and planning, will glean ideas and methods for managing multiple projects with this reference detailing strategies for evaluating, selecting, prioritizing, planning, and managing multiple projects while reinforcing organizational goals. Examples in large information systems organizations and health care delivery systems are discussed. Pennypacker directs a business center in the private sector and publishes newsletters on project management. Dye is a corporate and public trainer and member of the Project Management Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

See also: Savory Baking from the Mediterranean or Dim Sum

Super Searchers Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers

Author: Mary Ellen Bates

With the vast resources and ever-changing systems on the Internet, finding and gaining access to needed information can seem like an insurmountable task. This book interviews 11 on-line researchers and explains their techniques, including how to find and sort through information and what on-line sources to tap into. In depth interviews offer advice on how to begin projects, evaluate Internet information sources, and decide when to or not to use high-cost on-line services. Written for anyone interested in locating information on the Internet, this book provides the tools needed for searchers to make the best use of their on-line time.

Booknews

Bates, who does the same sort of work, interviews 11 researchers who use the Internet and online services to find critical business information. They reveal how they choose sources, evaluate search results, and tackle projects. The collection launches a series treating online research in different subject areas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xv
	Business Valuation Research	1
	One-Man Library	17
	Independent Info Pro and End User	31
	Competitive Intelligence Expert	51
	Wide-Spectrum Business Searcher	69
	Business Investigator	83
	Ad Industry Info Pro	99
	Author and Editor	115
	Information Professional Down Under	133
	Primary and Secondary Researcher	153
	Vendor Liaison and Instructor	167
Appendix A	Referenced Sites and Sources	185
Appendix B	Glossary	197
	Index	199
	About the Author and Editor	207