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Method123 Project Management Methodology
An entire Project Management Methodology for Project Managers. Every phase, activity and task within the Project Life cycle is described in depth, helping you to deliver projects faster and more efficiently than before. If you’re a Project Manager, Consultant, Trainer or Student, you can use this methodology to improve your project management success.
Method123.com: Templates for Project Managers to help you Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close projects while managing staff, customers, suppliers, change, risk, issues and quality. The Project Management Kit includes more than 50 Word and Excel documents with over 300 pages of helpful hints, real-life examples, charts and tables. This Kit is suitable for Project and Business Managers, Consultants, Trainers, Students and anyone else interested in managing projects successfully.
Franklin Covey: Source of Franklin Planner Organizers and books and tapes by Stephen R. Covey.
Harvard Business Review: Management thought and practice find a voice in the Harvard Business Review, the premier forum of the business world written by authorities in business and business education. This publication offers discussion and debate on national and international issues. You'll have a chance to compare your techniques and experiences to the most thought-provoking ideas on managerial excellence from the most accomplished managers in the business.
The Economist: If you want to know what the rest of the world is thinking, get the Economist, which is known for its insightful articles and analysis of politics, business, finance, science and culture. Edited out of London with local U.S. editions, every issue is filled with lively writing, thoughtful analysis and amusing captions. Most of all, The Economist is not afraid to state an opinion.

2GC Active Management: An international consulting organization, working throughout Europe, North America, and Asia headquartered in the UK's Thames Valley, near London. They provide advice and support to firms trying to implement strategic plans. In particular, they specialize in work relating to the design and implementation of the Balanced Scorecard.
Academy of Management Executive: "The Thinking Manager's Source".
Academy of Management Journal: Publish work that develops, tests, or advances management theory, research, and practice.
American Management Association: A complete management resource - the foundation of personal and/or staff management training and development plans.
Arthur Andersen - Interactive Tools: Conduct an online assessment of your company and see how it compares to other small and mid-sized businesses.
Arthur Andersen Knowledgespace: Connects trading partners with one another to conduct business and gather business intelligence, provides educational services.
BizManuals.com: Transform your business with more productive, happier employees -- in half the usual time with the Policies and Procedures System. It has already shown thousands of CEOs, CFOs and other executives how to realize increased profits from their business.
Business and Politics: Articles within the broad area of the interaction between firms and political actors. The use of non-market corporate strategy including internal organizational design decisions as well as external strategies. Efforts by policy makers to influence firm behaviour through regulatory, legal, financial, and other government instruments.
Business Performance: Improvement Tools: Practical resources in a range of business areas, including project management, human resources, change management, training and organizational development. Resources include eBooks, software, guides, templates, experts forum and resource directory.
The Business Source: Fast way to learn the ideas and strategies of leading business authorities. Summaries of top business books and speeches.
California Management Review: Emphasizes Strategy and Organization, Global Competition and Competitiveness, and Business and Public Policy. Focuses on contemporary developments in the global economy, strategies for innovation, strategic planning, the management of technology, corporate culture, managing human resources, and business ethics.
Cannon Advantage: They specialize in Business Management Consulting, Marketing Strategy and Change Management. They've got a business strategy newsletter called Taking Aim to introduce readers to strategic thinking and other information that might help them run their businesses more effectively.
CasePlace.org: A free, online service for business school faculty, students and businesses. They can help you find some of the best cases, references, and commentary published by and for business educators and business executives.
Cashing-Out.com: Buying a business? Selling a business? This site is designed to provide both a resource and forum for companies preparing themselves for sale or finance.
CEO Exchange: Offering Chief Executives the necessary room to grow.
Competia.com: Web-based magazine for competitive intelligence and strategic planning professionals.
Corporate Intelligence Guide: By Fuld & Company, Inc., an international leader and pioneer in the field of competitive intelligence. (Leonard Fuld invented the term over 20 years ago.)
EffectiveOrganization.com: Helps you sort through your workplace practices to improve your organization's financial performance and its performance as a fulfilling place to work. Using sophisticated statistical techniques, this site delivers comprehensive organizational assessment, real-time feedback, sophisticated online recommendations, and benchmarking - all at no charge.
European Management Journal: For managers concerned with the European and international field, and for academics researching in these management areas.
The Great Game of Business: Provides the tools necessary to implement open-book management in your company. This system created by Jack Stack, CEO of SRC Holdings, offers books, videos, seminars, conferences, coaching, speakers, regional and national Gatherings, and a road map to implementation.
Industry and Innovation: Devoted to understanding the dynamics of industrial growth, change and sustainability, whether at the level of the firm, the sector, the national or the international economy.
Institute for Business Technology and Ethics: Founded in 1998 to study the interrelationships of business, technology, and ethics. Their mission is to promote good business through appropriate technology and sound ethics.
Institute of Management and Administration: Publishes a broad range of high quality information products for business professionals.
International Business Ethics Institute: Assists corporations, trade and industry groups in implementing appropriate worldwide standards of business conduct
International Business Review: Provides a forum for academics and professionals to share the latest developments and advances in knowledge and practice of international business. Contains empirical studies with practical application; examinations of theoretical and methodological developments in the field of business studies; and reviews of the literature in international business.
Journal of Applied Management Studies: Provides a forum for debate and discussion across a wide range of issues facing the management community world wide in a host of different functional, sectoral, national and cultural settings. It aims to improve and enhance management practice through the transfer of recent developments and ideas in management theory and research into such practice.
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management: Links engineering, science, and management disciplines. It addresses the issues involved in the planning, development, and implementation of technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of an organization. It covers not only R&D management, but also the entire spectrum of managerial concerns in technology-based organizations. This includes issues relating to new product development, human resource management, innovation process management, project management, technological fusion, marketing, technological forecasting and strategic planning.
Journal of Management: Cover such areas as organizational behavior, human resources management, organizational theory, research methods, and business strategy and policy.
Journal of Managerial Issues: Purpose is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge directly related to the theory of organizations and the practice of management. Primary goal is to disseminate the results of new and original scholarly activity to a broad audience consisting of university faculty and administrators, business executives, consultants, and governmental managers.
Journal of Management Studies: A multidisciplinary journal, publishing articles on organization theory and behaviour, strategic and human resource management - from empirical studies and theoretical developments to practical applications.
Journal of Operations Management: Covers Operations management in process, manufacturing, and service organizations; Operations strategy and policy; Product and service design and development; Manufacturing and service systems design; Technology management for operations; Multi-site operations management; Capacity planning and analysis; Operations planning, scheduling and control; Project management; Human resource management for operations; Work design, measurement, and improvement; Performance measurement and productivity; Quality management; Purchasing/sourcing systems; Materials and inventory management; Logistics, transportation, distribution, and materials handling; International and comparative operations; Operations information management; Regulatory and environmental issues in operations.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management: Encompasses issues and practices in policy analysis and public management. Listed among the contributors are economists, public managers, and operations researchers. Featured regularly are book reviews and a department devoted to discussing ideas and issues of importance to practitioners, researchers, and academics.
Journal of Product Innovation Management: Purpose is to bring to managers and students of product innovation the theoretical structures and the practical techniques that will enable them to operate at the cutting edge of effective management practice. The scope is broad, taking account of those issues that are crucial to successful product innovation in the organization's external as well as internal environment.
Long Range Planning: The International Journal of Strategic Management. Major topics covered in the journal include: Industry and market analysis; The tools and techniques for strategic management; Strategy formulation and implementation; Strategies for growth and in declining markets; How to best use information technology; Company cases from large and small businesses.
Management and Technology Dictionary: Definitions of terms from A to Z.
Management Decision: Consistently offers thoughtful and provocative insights into current management practice. High calibre contributions from leading management philosophers and practitioners. Covers Operations management; Financial management; Motivation; Entrpreneurship; Problem solving and proactivity; Serious management argument; Strategy and policy issues; Tactics for turning around company crises.
Management Science: From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of OR/MS investigators, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as the institutions they serve, by such services as publishing a variety of journals that describe the latest OR/MS methods and applications and by organizing professional conferences.
ManagementFirst.com: Portal site focused on bringing quality management research and ideas to thinking managers. At the core of ManagementFirst is a 110,000 strong database of abstracts, management articles and book reviews dating back to 1989.
ManagerWise: Offers articles, news, book reviews and other resources related to the theory and practice of business management.
ManyWorld.com: A content provider of high quality, business strategy materials. They provide articles, downloadable presentations, video and other forms of this content free of charge.
meaningatwork.com: Detailed descriptions of 22 keys to a meaningful workplace, 60 real-life examples, and 100 action ideas.
National Management Association: A professional non-profit leadership development association. Provides management and leadership development opportunities to help sponsoring organizations discover, develop, and showcase leadership talent.
Scandanavian Journal of Management: An international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis.
SCIP.ORG: Online community for knowledge professionals working in Competitive Intelligence. Competitive intelligence (CI) is the process of monitoring the competitive environment. CI enables senior managers in companies of all sizes to make informed decisions about everything from marketing, R&D, and investing tactics to long-term business strategies.
Strategic Management Journal: Publishes original material concerned with all aspects of strategic management. It is devoted to the improvement and further development of the theory and practice of strategic management and is designed to appeal to both practising managers and academics.
Strategy & Business: From Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Designed to answer: how do you choose which ideas to apply? How do you know that the ideas that worked in one company will work in your company?
Strategy Leader: Articles and books on strategy, and a software package which is being used in MBA programs, Corporate Universities and in Corporate strategic planning.
Synthesis Web Journal: Aim is to articulate a completely new mind set embracing the three fields of strategic futures, marketing and economic development.
Project Management 2001 Organizational Project Management Baseline Study Conducts a North America-wide Project Managment Baseline Study for identifying and understanding current best practices, and providing the essential understanding necessary for organizations to begin improving their project management capability. Basecamp Provides tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project. It's an online service, and you can maintain one project with unlimited users for free. Center for International Project and Program Management Based at University of Michigan. 6,900 members. Earned Value Addresses basic tools of Project Management, including Work Scope Definition, Scheduling, Resource Allocation and Budgeting. Earned Value Management Integrating Cost, Schedule and Technical Performance for Project Management. GanttProject A free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Our major features include: Task hierarchy and dependencies, Gantt chart, Resource load chart, Generation of PERT chart, PDF and HTML reports, MS Project import/export, WebDAV based groupworks. Huddle online project management Huddle gives you simple, secure online workspaces containing powerful, office, project and collaboration tools that can be used for a variety of purposes. Huddle is hosted, there's no software to download and it's free to get started. With Huddle you can instantly create a network of collaborative team workspaces, each time bringing together the right team for the right activity. You can manage projects, team and relationships or share ideas, files and information, or both. And because you are joining a network of workspaces, you can collaborate with hundreds of different people, teams and organisations globally in one place. Huddle has a free option with up to 3 workspaces. Infowit Infowit Creative Manager is a web-based project management software solution that allows clients, vendors, and agencies to communicate and collaborate on projects in real-time 24 hours a day. Estimating, Integrated Scheduling, Time Cards, Tracking, Client Review and Approvals, Asset Management, Contact Management and Prospecting, Procurement, Purchasing, Financials, and more. International Journal of Project Management a bi-monthly international journal that offers comprehensive coverage of all facets of project management. Provides a focus for worldwide expertise in the required techniques, practices and areas of research; presents a forum for its readers to share common experiences across the full range of industries and technologies in which project management is used; covers all areas of project management from systems to human aspects; links theory with practice by publishing case studies and covering the latest important issues. NewGrange Center for Project Management A non-profit web based organization for project managers. They currently have members in over 35 countries and they've got a lively email discussion list. Open Workbench an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project. PM Boulevard View current news and articles, participate in a discussion, connect to other PM resources on the internet and attend training classes. Subscribers get full access to the methodologies, templates, and best practices on their Knowledge Center, personalized answers to PM questions and individualized project assessments. Primarvera Systems One of the leading vendors of project management software. Project Control Tower Downloadable tools, templates and guides. Project Management Forum Non-profit resource for information on international project management. Discusses the profession, organizations, vendors. Project Management Institute Almost 45,000 members worldwide. Has local chapters, provides certification. projectmanagement.com Resources, news, links, and tools. ProjectNet - Project Management Information Resource Sponored by Project Manager Today magazine. ProjectWorld Conferences in Boston and San Jose by Imark Communications. Software Project Management Course Online guide on the management of software projects. New to Software Project Management? Get in the fast track with this course. Wrike An integrated online project management solution that helps you manage projects, teams and businesses. By turning email overload into well-organized plans on the Web, Wrike makes your organization more efficient, transparent and agile. Wrike is collaborative, web-based, easy to use and inexpensive, so you can roll it out company-wide. Pricing is from $3.99 per user per month. Their free version allows you to add up to 20 tasks.