Research and Development is the vehicle by which organizations and economies create opportunity, innovation and secure a stream of future products and services. These outcomes are all critically important sources of sustainability in a world that is changing faster than most companies can keep up.

The challenge behind them is the fundamental unpredictability of R&D; which is why effective project management is so important. Ron Basus Managing Projects in Research and Development explains how and why project management can provide a means of helping to plan, organise and control multi-disciplinary research activities without stifling innovation.

Combining research with practical examples and experience from a career that has included blue chip organizations such as GSK, GlaxoWellcome and Unilever, Ron Basu offers a rigorous guide to the fundamentals of R&D project management including project lifecycle management, risk management, cost, time quality and other success measures as well as the keys to operational excellence in this complicated world.

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (August 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1472450108
ISBN-13: 978-1472450104