Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation

Reinventing Project Management: The Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation; Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA; 2007; 274 pp., $35.00. Reinventing Project Management is important to RD the authors assume the readers already do these. Their contribution lies in providing a tool that crosses the boundary from strategic managers to project managers. A problem many companies have with project management is that project success is defined too narrowly. For example, if a project is on time and on budget it is considered a success. Shenhar and Dvir point out that project criteria should include the strategic aims of the company. The difficulty often comes when strategic…