HAROLD KERZNER, Ph.D., prominent instructor for the International Institute of Learning (IIL), is currently Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio and President of Project Management Associates, a consulting and training firm that conducts seminars for leading U.S. and international corporations. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois and has taught engineering at that institution and business administration at Utah State University, where he received the 1998 Distinguished Service Award. The Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Project Management Institute has honored Dr. Kerzner by instituting the Kerzner Award for Project Management Excellence.
During the 1940s, line managers used the concept of over-the-fence management to manage projects. Each line manager, wearing the hat of a project manager, would perform the work necessitated by their line organization, and when…
INTRODUCTION The growth and acceptance of project management has changed significantly over the past forty years, and these changes are expected to continue well into the twenty-first century, especially in the area of multinational project…
For 75 years, the Williams Machine Tool Company had provided quality products to its clients, becoming the third largest U.S.-based machine tool company by 1980. The company was highly profitable and had an extremely low…
PROJECT-DRIVEN VERSUS NON–PROJECT-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS On the micro level, virtually all organizations are either marketing-, engineering-, or manufacturing- driven. But on the macro level, organizations are either project- or non–project-driven.In a project-driven organization, such as construction…
DEFINING THE FUNCTIONAL EMPLOYEE’S ROLE Once the line managers commit to the deliverables, it is the responsibility of the assigned functional employees to achieve the functional deliverables. For years the functional employees were called subordinates.…
DEFINING THE PROJECT MANAGER’S ROLE The project manager is responsible for coordinating and integrating activities across multiple, functional lines. The integration activities performed by the project manager include:● Integrating the activities necessary to develop a…
DEFINING PROJECT SUCCESS In the previous section, we defined project success as the completion of an activity within the constraints of time, cost, and performance. This was the definition used for the past twenty years…
INTRODUCTION Executives will be facing increasingly complex challenges during the next decade. These challenges will be the result of high escalation factors for salaries and raw materials, increased union demands, pressure from stockholders, and the…