Project Workout : A Toolkit for Reaping the Rewards of All Your Business Projects [Second Edition with CD]

(Pearson Education) Shows the user how to measure critical success factors, diagnose the difficulties of implementation, analyze the project as a single entity, assess resource strategy and management, put enterprise-wide project management into organizations. Softcover.

ROBERT BUTTRICK currently works in one of the world's fastest growing industrial sectors, communications. He is accountable for creating and running a project-based framework for managing change within Cable and Wireless's UK operating company, enabling it to plan for, and develop, new systems, products, services, and capabilities to meet the ever growing needs of its customers. Prior to this he was a member of the management team which was accountable for managing the company's UK residential sector, acting as coach to sponsors and project managers, enabling them to succeed in a wide range of business projects.

Before joining Cable and Wireless in 1993, Robert was with PA Consulting Group, a management and technology consultancy. There, he specialized in business-led project management, advising clients such as TSB Bank, National Rivers Authority, Property Services Agency, Avon Industrial Polymers, National Westminster Bank, and RHM.

His early career was as a civil engineer. After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a first class honors degree, he joined Gibb Ltd, who provide consulting, design, and management services for infrastructure projects worldwide. He has lived and worked in countries as diverse as Kenya, Mauritius, Yemen, Senegal, and Sudan on the evaluation, design and supervision of a number of marine and water resource projects. He has also worked with the World Bank in Washington DC on investment appraisals for major development projects. Following this, he became Gibb's manager for marketing strategy and analysis.

Robert is a Master of Business Administration (Henley Management College), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

His main pastime is watercolor painting. His one, unknown, claim to fame is that he once stopped a column of Russian tanks dead in its tracks.