ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book tackles the challenges of delivering business projects in support of a company's strategic agenda. It aims at project and programme managers and those senior executives accountable for how project investments are managed. The book focuses on those companies where project delivery is not the primary aim of the organization lets call them business-as-usual (BAU) companies. Over the past decade these BAU organizations have adopted project management more widely as a discipline to better manage their investments in business change projects. A definition that includes the launch of new products, re-engineering of business processes and implementing new IT business systems. The book is constructed as a roadmap. It starts by considering the character of these BAU organizations and then progresses through the application of project, programme and portfolio management disciplines.
