Samset, Knut
Making Essential Choices with Scant Information
Part I. Introduction
1. Decisions Made on Scant Information: Overview
Terry Williams
2. Projects, Their Quality at Entry and Challenges in the Front-end Phase
Knut Samset
Part II. Aligning Projects
3. Implementing Strategy Through Project Management: The Importance of Managing the Project Front-end
Peter W. G. Morris
4. Scenarios Planning
Kees Heijden
5. Up-Front Assessment of Needs
Petter Næss
6. Front-end Alignment of Projects — Doing the Right Project
Terry Cooke-Davies
7. Using Soft Systems Methodology to Structure Project Definition
Mark Winter
Part III. Generating Information
8. Optimism and Misrepresentation in Early Project Development
Bent Flyvbjerg
9. Decision Behaviour- Improving Expert Judgement
Geir Kirkebøen
10. Useful Heuristics
Benjamin Scheibehenne, Bettina Helversen
11. Expert Judgement of Probability and Risk
George Wright, Fergus Bolger, Gene Rowe
12. Evaluation of Risks in Complex Problems
Gregory S. Parnell
13. Obtaining Distributions from Groups for Decisions Under Uncertainty
Roger M. Cooke
Part IV. Analysing Information
14. Exploratory Quantitative Analysis of Emergent Problems with Scant Information
Tim Bedford
15. Analyzing Information. Techniques and Analyses
Bjørn Andersen
16. Parametric Analysis
Philip Pugh
Part V. Making Decisions
17. The Impact of New Information
Kjell J. Sunnevåg
18. The Complexity of Decision-Making in Large Projects with Multiple Partners: Be Prepared to Change
Roger Miller, Brian Hobbs
19. Project Profitability from Society’s Point of View
Kåre P. Hagen
Keywords: Business and Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Knowledge Management, Management, Economics, general, Project Management
- Editor
- Samset, Knut
- Sunnevåg, Kjell J.
- Williams, Terry M.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 433 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230236837
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-30224-6