Managing Projects in Research and Development

Ron Basu is Director of Performance Excellence Limited and a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, England. He is also a Visiting Professor at SKEMA Business School, France. He specialises in Operational Excellence and Supply Chain Management and has research interests in Performance Management and Project Management. Previously he held senior management roles in blue-chip companies like GSK, GlaxoWellcome and Unilever and led global initiatives and projects in Six Sigma, ERP/MRPII, Supply Chain Re-engineering and Total Productive Maintenance. Prior to this he worked as Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney. He is the co-author of ’Total Manufacturing Solutions’, ’Quality Beyond Six Sigma’, ’Total Operations Solutions’ and ’Total Supply Chain Management’ and the author of books with titles Measuring e-Business Performance, ’Implementing Quality’, ’Implementing Six Sigma and Lean’, ’FIT SIGMA’ and ’Managing Project Supply Chains’ and ’Managing Quality in Projects’.

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Acknowledgements

About the Author

About this Book

Preface






Why Project Management is Essential in Research and Development



Current Thinking in Managing R&D Projects



Fundamentals of Project Management



R&D Project Life Cycle



Managing Cost,Time and Quality in R&D



Managing Risks in R&D



Managing R&D Portfolios



R&D Project Success Criteria and Success Factors



operational Excellence Concepts in R&D Projects



Case Studies of R&D Projects



Making it Happen

Appendix: MSc in R&D Project Management: Course Outline

Glossary

Bibliography

Index