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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020262803321

Autore

Loch C (Christoph)

Titolo

Managing the unknown : a new approach to managing high uncertainty and risk in projects / / Christoph H. Loch, Arnoud De Meyer, Michael T. Pich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley, c2006

ISBN

9786613403971

9781118276822

1118276825

9781283403979

1283403978

9781118276730

1118276736

9780470172377

0470172371

9780470361986

0470361980

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Classificazione

85.03

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerArnoud de

PichMichael T

Disciplina

658.4/04

Soggetti

Project management

Risk management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. A new look at project risk management -- pt. 2. Managing the unknown -- pt. 3. Putting selectionism and learning into practice -- pt. 4. Managing the unknown : the role of senior management.

Sommario/riassunto

Managing the Unknown offers a new way of looking at the problem of managing projects in novel and unknown environments. From Europe's leading business school, this book shows how to manage two fundamental approaches that, in combination, offer the possibility of coping with unforeseen influences that inevitably arise in novel projects:* Trial-and-Error Learning allows for redefining the plan and



the project as the project unfolds* Selectionism pursues multiple, independent trials in order to pick the best one at the endManaging the Unknown offers expert guidelines to the specif