Process Management Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision

What is it that makes a manager or a politician a successful decision maker? Our first inclination would be to say decisiveness and substance. Many managers who met those criteria, however, have had to abandon the field in the past several years..--The au

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Hans de Bruijn  Ernst ten Heuvelhof  Roel in ’t Veld

Process Management Why Project Management Fails in Complex Decision Making Processes

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Prof. Dr. Hans de Bruijn Delft University of Technology Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Ernst ten Heuvelhof Delft University of Technology Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Dr. Roel in ’t Veld Waterbieskreek 40 2353 JH Leiderdorp Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-13940-6

e-ISBN 978-3-642-13941-3

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Table of Contents

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Introduction: Process and Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 The Process Approach to Change: a Preliminary Description 1.2.1 Agreements About the Rules that the Parties will use Reach a Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.2 The Process Manager and the Process Architect . . . . 1.3 Structure of this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Positioning the Process Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Introduction: From Deal to Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Positioning Process Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3. Process Management Versus Substance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 From Objective to Authoritative: Negotiated Knowledge . 2.4 Process Management Versus Command and Control . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Process Management Versus Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.1 Dynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .