We are very proud to inform you that our new book by Jean-Pierre Capron, “The Pocket Guide for those Daring Enough to Take Responsibility for Large Projects” is out both in English and French, with a foreword by Tom Ehret!
In a light, witty and easily readable style, this amazing short book exposes the workings of project-management organizations for large projects with a clarity and a depth never achieved before. Short enough to be easily readable during a trip, it describes clearly what are the steps to follow in terms of organization, tender preparation, project execution and controls, and project close-out.
Some extracts from Tom Ehret’s foreword:
“As the title of this guide clearly indicates, it addresses a subject which is not for the faint hearted. The management of Large Industrial Projects is not a subject which is classically taught, as such, at college. Not only is it a very challenging subject in itself, but it is also one for which the available academic basis is quite limited, to non-existent, since the classical project management tools one can learn the use of, in themselves, do not begin to tell you how to run, successfully, a Large Industrial Project. […] Jean Pierre Capron has run large organizations, in many different environments, and held very senior management positions. Uniquely though, he has kept his ability to home in on what matters in terms of execution and delivery, his appetite for investigating complex situations and looking for the root cause of issues, and his enthusiasm for leading from the front the implementation of solutions. This is why this guide is such an interesting tool: because of who wrote it. It contains a large amount of the experience of someone who not only understands Large Industrial Projects and how they are evaluated, but has also run them, has sorted many out, and has made them into successes. Even more remarkable is the fact that those who have worked with him and learned from him, continue to perform remarkable things within ever more daring Large Industrial Projects. This is clearly the most valuable endorsement”
Get your copy on your favorite online bookshop. Both titles are also available on Kindle. Here are a few links (for some technical reasons at Amazon, the books are not available yet on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr, we will send an update when they will be)
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