Maximum Return: The Ultimate On-Time, On-Budget, Results-Driven Project Planning Guide - Softcover

Gregory, Patrick J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967277604 ISBN 13: 9780967277608

Publisher: Living Spirit Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Are your company's projects...
COMPLETED ON TIME AND WITHIN BUDGET?
ACHIEVING THE RESULTS THAT WERE PROMISED?

Determining which projects to fund is often a frustrating, time-consuming and ineffective process. But it is this process that lays the foundation for your company's future. Written in an easy-to-read, lighter style, Maximum Return: The Ultimate On-Time, On-Budget, Results-Driven Project Planning Guide is the ultimate reference guide for managing how project ideas are evaluated, approved and positioned for success. Whether your capital projects are large or small, complex or simple, this book offers you the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure that only the best project ideas get funded.

Maximum Return will show you how to:

-Prepare a meaningful project business case that is of the highest quality.
-Conduct a proper business and financial analysis of your project idea.
-Design a practical and effective process that focuses on the people side of project analysis. Insist on a disciplined process that gets results!
-Explain financial analysis in terms non-financial people will understand and will want to learn.
-Package your project proposal into a business case format that management will love.

Help your company achieve total success in its capital project process by utilizing this new management tool that focuses on the fundamentals of capital project analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Patrick J. Gregory is President of the Stonehaven Group, a financial management consulting firm that helps companies achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in their financial management practices. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and has over twenty years of business experience across several industries. He has also taught financial management at the Executive MBA level and has a gift for making the complex easy to understand.

Review

"Maximum Return delivers a highly practical and rigorous capital project planning framework...a must-have tool." -- S.C. Roche-Mgr., Bain & Company

"Maximum Return empowers project managers to think like owners...[shows] how to evaluate the business/financial risk of every project." -- T.Partlow-Pres. Delta Health Systems

"Be sure your project teams read it before they spend your money." -- W. B. Marshuetz, CFO-Applied Quality Communications

About this edition

• Publisher: Living Spirit Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0967277604
• ISBN 13: 9780967277608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256