Multidisciplinary Project Management for Organizational Success

Project management can play a key role in arriving at an effective decision in various functional areas of management. This book focuses on the integral role of project management in an organization. All aspects of a project, such as project identification, project planning and scheduling, project implementation, project evaluation, project financing and project audit, are covered in detail in this book.

Features:

• Covers in depth concepts and techniques of project management

• Emphasizes project management during the pre-stages of project development

• Provides keywords of essential vocabulary so students can recognize and retain important terminology

• Includes case studies taken from real-life situations showing the practicalities involved in the discipline

• Focuses on the practical aspects of project analysis and implementation as they relate to entrepreneurs

• Features glossaries of central term definitions and of frequently used symbols

It is designed to help undergraduates, postgraduates, and research professionals understand the basic concepts and applications of project management.

Umesh Kumar Bhayyalal Dubey is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of BSc Applied Statistics and Data Analytics at Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune. He holds dual PhDs in Statistics and Business Administration from RTM Nagpur University, along with an M.Sc. in Statistics and two MBAs. He has over 21 years of academic experience and has authored two books with CRC Press. His research interests include information theory, hypothesis testing, clinical trials, operations research, and management sciences. Dr. Dubey has held teaching and administrative roles at several institutions and received the Excellent Personality Award from the Maharashtra Government in 2001.

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D. P. Kothari is Director (Research) at S.B. Jain Institute of Management, Nagpur, and former Vice Chancellor of VIT University. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani. He has held key academic positions at IIT Delhi, VRCE Nagpur, and international appointments in Australia and the USA. A Fellow of IEEE, INAE, and several national academies, he has published over 830 research papers, guided 56 PhDs, and authored 70 books. Recipient of multiple national awards, including the UGC Swami Pranavananda Award and the Khosla Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Kothari has recently received the ‘Malviya Award for Excellence in Power System’ conferred by IIT (BHU) during the NPSC at IIT Gandhinagar. He is also the chairman of the board of governors of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, India.

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