Creative Project Management: Innovative Project Options to Solve Problems on Time and Under Budget

The 7 essential tools for keeping projects on time and under budget

So you’ve mastered risk management, leadership, planning—the hallmarks of outstanding project management. And, still, you’re having trouble keeping your projects on schedule.

Creative Project Management adds two new elements to the mix, critical components that have been missing from the field for too long: Creativity and Innovation.

Internationally renown project management consultant Michael Dobson combines traditional (and still important) project management skills, such as risk, decisions, and human dynamics, with a liberal dose of outside-the-box thinking and business creativity. He provides seven new tools and approaches you can apply to any project:

1. What If: Realistically imagine the outcome of your decisions
2. Organizations are Organisms, Too: Work with—and around—the realities and constraints that affect your decisions
3. Trendspotting: Read and predict trends
4. Today Isn't Tomorrow . . . or Next Week: Manage the long- and short-term ramifications of your decisions
5. The Butterfly Effect: Extrapolate previously unforeseen ramifications of your decisions
6. The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Evaluate the impact of present and future technologies on your decisions
7. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Imagine new choices you didn’t think you had

Informed by Dobson’s years as a project management consultant and simulation game developer, Creative Project Management provides an invaluable new set of tools for any project management professional tasked with making difficult decisions in these uncertain times.