In Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Elizabeth Harrin builds upon her 2010 book, Social Media for Project Managers, by providing the latest information, success stories, and an easy-to-follow guide to implementing online collaboration tools and helping to overcome obstacles. In order to communicate faster, work virtually with people across the globe, and get better business results, project teams should explore how online collaboration tools can deliver project success and improve business value.

Global Project Management describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in business environments which require distributed skills, around-the-clock operations and virtual team environments. The book goes beyond simple recommendations on collaborative tools, to suggest the development of best practices on cross-cultural team management and global communication, recommend organisational changes and project structures, and propose alternatives for the implementation of the new practices and methods. Filled with real-life examples and techniques, the book illustrates how to apply the recommendations as part of the successful management of any global project.

This book has grown out of a Collaborative Project Management Guide that we at BrightWork created with and for our customers. This new second edition includes a three-step Collaborative Project Management Framework - Collaborate, Lead, and Evolve - and an expanded section on leadership covering both Personal and Situational Leadership. The book provides a summary of the typical stages and steps involved in successfully managing a project collaboratively with a team, including steps for the project team members. It also addresses the critical topic of Leadership, and describes the habits and qualities that successful project managers and team members practice and exhibit. Our intention and intended audience is as follows: - An easy-to-follow and simple-to-use collaborative project management book for new and 'accidental' project managers - A guide for team members who want to collaborate in the active management of projects - A source of materials experienced project managers can adapt to coach new project managers.

Large projects, especially in the construction and infrastructure sectors, involve collaborations of many different types, such as built-own-operate, public-private partnership, or competitive dialogue. This monograph details the authors’ research on the types of collaborative projects. The research undertaken for this book responds to the need for a taxonomy of relationship-based procurement approaches, a particular type of project alliancing in need of standardization. Recommendations are made based on interviews with 36 subject matter experts from several countries, as well as an extensive literature review

Collaboration among industry, universities and research institutes plays a vital role in stimulating open innovation, which in turn leads to new products, processes, services and business models. This book brings together a number of real-life examples of how to govern and manage open innovation collaboration projects more effectively, and provides timely insights that project consortia, governance boards and funding agencies can directly apply to implement and monitor projects and achieve greater impacts. All papers were written by recognized leading authorities with extensive experience in governance and management, and reveal how to capitalize on the potential of open innovation. This book shares multidisciplinary research perspectives on the potential benefits and challenges of collaboration, project management, and open innovation, as well as the management of complex organizational cultures and governance models.

Easy to read and act on immediately, this concise guide shows how organizations can work more effectively with in-house or contracted project managers and their teams, using specific collaborative techniques to improve success rates, reduce project costs, and enable organizations to benefit from common-sense, cost-effective project management approaches that work. Using a clear structure and accessible style, the book demonstrates how: Managers can create an organizational environment more naturally adapted for project work and recognition of business priorities; Barriers to project work can be removed so project managers can focus on resolving real project problems; Specific collaborative project management methods engaging business owners, users, and technical teams can be illuminated and implemented; Projects can fit within an architecture that aligns with business needs using models and workflow designs; and Standardized delivery management can unify in-house and vendor teams to create a uniform and predictable owner experience. The book is aimed at managers and executives (both IT and users) in corporations and vendor firms who are engaged in delivering projects. The book will also be invaluable to any project manager or senior practitioner who is interested in a business-oriented, unified, and collaborative approach to project management.

If you wish to lead a good life, reach your potential, lead a team, lead a family, lead a project or an organization, the most important person to first lead is yourself. If you lead yourself well, then you are in a position to lead others, and others will be open to your leadership. You will be leading from the inside out. This book is organized into five numbered sections designed to help you evolve your own personal and collaborative leadership as follows:1.Personal Change: gradually but intentionally manage your own personal and professional evolution, whatever that is for you (and it is different for each one of us).2.Personal Leadership: be happier, healthier, more fulfilled, more effective and efficient, leading yourself by managing your energy, attitude, personality, time and associated tools.3.Situational Leadership: manage well the common situations that occur in teams inside and outside of work, such as meetings, presentations, decision-making, giving everyone a voice and adopting team/group leadership approaches and models that work for you and the situations you encounter.4.Collaborative Project Management: know and practice the typical stages and steps involved in successfully managing a project collaboratively with a team, including the steps for project team members to follow.5.Going Further: use this handbook to deliver a series of workshops for your teams, to gradually improve the leadership, project and management practices of yourself and the groups and organizations you work with.