Managing Projects in Research and Development

Research and Development is the vehicle by which organizations and economies create opportunity innovation and secure a stream of future products and services.These outcomes are all critically important sources of sustainability in a world that is changing faster than most companies can keep up.The challenge behind them is the fundamental unpredictability of R&D; which is why effective project management is so important. Ron Basu's Managing Projects in Research and Development explains how and why project management can provide a means of helping to plan organise and control multi-disciplinary research activities without stifling innovation. Combining research with practical examples and experience from a career that has included blue chip organizations such as GSK GlaxoWellcome and Unilever Ron Basu offers a rigorous guide to the fundamentals of R&D project management including project lifecycle management risk management cost time quality and other success measures as well as the keys to operational excellence in this complicated world.