Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through contributions from stakeholders. And it is the stakeholders that evaluate whether they find the project successful - an evaluation based on criteria that go beyond receiving the project deliverables. More often than not, the criteria are implicit and change during the project course. This is an enormous challenge for project managers. The route to better projects, say Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen, lies in finding ways to improve project stakeholder management. To manage stakeholders effectively, you need to know your stakeholders, their behaviours and attitudes towards the project. The authors give guidance on how to adopt an analytical and structured approach; how to document, store and retrieve your knowledge; how to plan your stakeholder interactions in advance; and how to make your plans explicit, at the very least internally. A well-conceived plan can prevent you from being carried away in the 'heat of the moment' and help you spend your limited resources for stakeholder management in the best way. To make this plan, you need to agree on the objectives of your stakeholder strategy and ways to achieve them. Project Stakeholder Management offers tactics and tools founded on established marketing communications theory as well as strategic management for doing just that. This book is part of Gower's Fundamentals of Project Management Series.

The authors of the international bestseller Business ModelGeneration explain how to create value propositions customerscan't resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle a corechallenge of every business - creating compelling productsand services customers want to buy. This practical book, pairedwith its online companion, will teach you the processes and toolsyou need to succeed. Using the same stunning visual format as the authors'global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explainshow to use the "Value Proposition Canvas" a practicaltool to design, test, create, and mana

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This book presents the different models of supply chain performance evaluation for global supply chains. It describes why it is necessary to evaluate global performance both to assess the contribution of the supply chain to achieve the goals of creating value throughout the chain and also to meet customer requirements in terms of time, responsiveness and reliability. The author provides an understanding of how evaluation models are chosen according to criteria including the level of maturity of the organization, the level of decision-making and the level of value creation desired.

Leading, managing and organizing for service excellence is a never-ending quest by organizations seeking to achieve outstanding performance in their fields. Benchmarking one's own approaches against other organizations' best practices and gaining insights from their experiences are powerful means for enhancing results. Papers presented at QUIS13 gave a comprehensive overview of scholarly and managerial advances in service excellence and management with contributions from around the world. During the event, well-known scholars and business executives shared their views, research and experiences

This book presents latest research on the evolution of consumer services, as these services continue to become a larger part of the economy in the world. Four core focal points lead the central message of the book: first, the?convergence of back and front offices; second, placing the client as a fundamental input of services production and delivery process, and ''industrializing''?the?customers''?role?to?combine?efficiency?and experience; third, the constitution and role of inputs necessary for the configuration, production and delivery of the service,?with the crucial role?of ''operationalizi

The main objective of the book is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of quality monitoring for customer experience management, addressing topics which are currently important, such as service-aware future Internet architecture for Quality of Experience (QoE) management on multimedia applications. In recent years, multimedia applications and services have experienced a sudden growth. Today, video display is not limited to the traditional areas of movies and television on TV sets, but these applications are accessed in different environments, with

This work offers a summary of the book "MOMENTS OF TRUTH: New Strategies for Today's Customer-Driven Economy" by Jan Carlzon.A company is defined in the minds of its customers as the composite total of every moment of truth - those short periods when the customer interacts with the company or one of its employees. According to Jan Carlzon, former President and CEO of the Scandinavian Airlines Group, the best approach to delivering consistently high-quality moments of truth lies in building a customer-driven company. In Moments of Truth, Carlzon explains the six essential characteristics of th

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The articles comprising thisebook of Managing Service Quality represent a selection of revised papers originally submitted to the Services Marketing Track and presented at the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) annual conference held in Christchurch, New Zealand in December 2010. This internationally recognised conference was hosted by the College of Business and Economics at The University of Canterbury and was attended by over 400 delegates from 28 countries. The theme of the conference was "Doing More with Less". This theme proved to be both relevant and timely at a number of levels