Bøker av Peter Sammons

Learn from this practical guide full of tools for managing contracts, specifically client-supplier relationships and big procurement contracts.

This Manual provides three 'roadmaps' and associated detailed step-by-step notes for the separate disciplines of 'Environmental', 'Social' and 'Governance' management. The material sets out key practical ESG tasks for business organisations. It should be read with the associated management book "ESG - Making the Connection" which is freely available in downloadable format from our associated website: esgnow.org.uk where individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format. The only elements not available for download are in this printed Manual. The Manual provides a hard copy of the book's three key roadmaps - one for 'E' (environmental) one for 'S' (social) and one for 'G' (governance), plus explanatory notes. The roadmaps are provided here as chapters 11, 14 and 17. The associated explanatory notes are here, as chapters 12, 15 and 18. You may want to return to esgnow.org.uk from time to time as the chapters may be revised and there are useful links and regular topical updates. We wish you well on your ESG journey.

Why do projects fail?The people who plan and execute major projects are often highly skilled and highly regarded. They are not obviously incompetent. Where a project uses external suppliers or contractors as a significant support to project delivery, the risk of a fundamental failure seems to escalate. Is this a failure of project management? A failure of procurement? A failure of both? Or are there other factors at play?This book aims to be a self-help manual. It will enable you to improve your personal and corporate performance. It will also help you ensure that the sub-system elements of a project, where there are 'interfaces' between systems that need to 'talk' to each other, will be effectively managed - with no nasty surprises.Buying and integrating advanced technologyRight First Time - Buying and integrating advanced technology for project success does not pretend to hold the key to a 'nirvana' of project delivery. Rather, it gets straight to the point about buying - and integrating - advanced technology. It recognises that integrating sub-systems is fertile ground for failure and that effective procurement is increasingly important in project delivery.The failure of one sub-system can undermine an entire project, and the integration of sub-components is all too often assumed to be a technical problem that 'technical people' will overcome. Few projects make integration a defined subset of the overall project plan, yet most will benefit from doing so.A project management playbookA management book rather than a technical book, Right First Time - Buying and integrating advanced technology for project success focuses on the difficult issue of sub-system integration in the context of third-party (supply) relationships. If you are responsible for project management and practical delivery, at senior or junior level, it provides lots of practical questions to help you work through the issues, acting as a catalyst for supplementary questions and lines of investigation, focusing on potential problem areas relevant to your own context.Powerful learning outcomes and self-reflective questions at the end of each chapter enable you to create key action points and assess your organisation's approach to improve project management governance and ensure you get it right first time.Project managers, procurement managers, business change managers, commercial managers, mobilisation/transition managers, product managers and contract managers will all find value in this comprehensive guide to managing sub-system integration for project success."e;Overall, this was excellent; I enjoyed reading it. It is obvious that the author has a vast wealth of experience which they have articulated very well into a comprehensive and strong flowing manual."e;- Chris Achillea

• How do the Biblical feasts of Leviticus speak directly of Jesus?• What are "The Magni¿cent Seven" feasts, and are they important today?• Which covenants in the Bible are still operative and how do they speak of Jesus?• How does The New Covenant relate to the older covenants? Is it "stand alone" or does it grow naturally out of those older covenants?God has set out a simple pattern that expresses His eternal purposes mediated through the life, death, resurrection and future return of Jesus His Son. This book explores that pattern.

This book presents some basic building blocks which organizations can use to recognize when a project is primarily about knowledge creation. It helps managers to avoid traps in spending their organization's money with external suppliers of knowledge.

Technology acquisition, consultancy know-how, research data and services, marketing information, intellectual property