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Zusatztext 'As the former director of the George Washington University Aviation Institute and with many years of academic work in this area! I can attest to the serious need for this book in aviation project management. The state of the US airline industry! and to some extent the increasing complexity of the aviation and civil aerospace industry! has put a heavier burden on the need for streamlined management of the industry as a whole. This book is an important contribution to the body of knowledge and will make a tremendous impact on educating the aviation managers of present and future.' Vahid Motevalli! Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology! Purdue University! USA 'Managing Aviation Projects from Concept to Completion! by Triant G.Flouris and Dennis Lock is a good read with some very valuable information that usually can be gained only from years of experience. Read it! and then read it again...' Journal of Airport Management! Vol 4 No 3! 2010 Informationen zum Autor Dr Triant Flouris is Dean of the School of Aviation Sciences and Professor of Aviation Management at Daniel Webster College. He is the author of numerous journal articles and several books and a well known global expert on aviation management. Klappentext Suitable for managers and students who need to study aviation project management! as well as connect project management within an aviation context to prudent business decision-making! this book describes aviation project management throughout various stages of a lifecycle that begins when the project is only a vague concept. Zusammenfassung Suitable for managers and students who need to study aviation project management, as well as connect project management within an aviation context to prudent business decision-making, this book describes aviation project management throughout various stages of a lifecycle that begins when the project is only a vague concept. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Nature of Projects and their Management; 2: Factors for Project Success or Failure; 3: Project Definition; 4: Strategic Decisions; 5: Estimating the Project Costs; 6: Evaluating an Aviation Investment Project and Preparing a Business Case; 7: Project Authorization; 8: Organizing the Project; 9: Some Key Roles and Stakeholders in the Project Organization; 10: Work Breakdown and Coding; 11: Relating the Project Dimensions of Work, Organization and Cost; 12: Introduction to Detailed Project Planning; 13: An Introduction to Critical Path Network Analysis; 14: Critical Path Network Analysis in More Practical Detail; 15: Principles of Resource Scheduling; 16: More Advanced Aspects of Resource Scheduling; 17: Planning for Risk and Uncertainty in Aviation Projects; 18: Contracts and Terms of Payment; 19: Purchasing—Part 1: Principles and Initial Ordering; 20: Purchasing—Part 2: The Supply Chain; 21: Managing Project Start-up; 22: Managing Progress; 23: Managing Changes; 24: Managing Project Costs; 25: Managing Project Cash Flows; 26: Reporting Progress and Costs; 27: Project Closedown...
