Project Management
Failed IT Project Business Cases: A Career Guide to Lessons Learned
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Natalie Disque
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The percentage of IT projects that fail is embarrassing to those in the IT industry! Project managers need to get their act together to ensure that their projects run smoothly, all lines of communication are open, and they have the backing of the stakeholders and upper management. But do PMs have the skills they need to keep a project afloat?
This quick career guide book is meant to provide you with 10 real world IT project examples, why they failed, and lessons learned for each one. It will provide you with key points on the following concepts related to IT projects:
- Requirements
- Business case
- Planning reasons
- Execution factors
- Business factors
- Political factors
- Technical factors
If you are a project manager, aspiring to be one, or just an adult continuing your education in the field of business and IT project management, then you need to listen to this book and learn from other failed IT projects how you can overcome these types of failures and be a successful IT project manager.
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“What would Jeff do?” Since leaving Amazon to advise start-ups and corporations, John Rossman has been asked this question countless times by executives who want to know “the secret” behind Amazon’s historic success. In this step-by-step guide, he provides 50½ answers drawn from his experience as an Amazon executive - and shows today’s business leaders how to think like Amazon, strategize like Bezos, and beat the competition like nobody’s business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read if you really want to innovate like Amazon
- By Npino on 05-19-19
By: John Rossman
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What to Do When Machines Do Everything
- How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data
- By: Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 237
What to Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on artificial intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans, it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Assumes that machine learning will grow very slow
- By Nathan Burnham on 05-06-17
By: Malcolm Frank, and others
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Ask Your Developer
- How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
- By: Jeff Lawson
- Narrated by: Jeff Lawson
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 305
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 304
Jeff Lawson, developer turned CEO of Twilio (one of Bloomberg Businessweek's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2021), creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Two and Half Stars
- By Anonymous User on 12-16-21
By: Jeff Lawson
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Human + Machine
- Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
- By: Paul R. Daugherty, H. James Wilson
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Story4 out of 5 stars 284
Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now - in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment. Twenty-first-century pioneer companies are already using AI to innovate and grow fast. The bottom line is this: Businesses that understand how to harness AI can surge ahead. Those that neglect it will fall behind. Which side are you on?
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3 out of 5 stars
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A golf course book
- By C. Surdak on 07-30-18
By: Paul R. Daugherty, and others
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Big Data in Practice
- How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Piers Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
The best-selling author of Big Data is back, this time with a unique and in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data. Big data is on the tip of everyone's tongue. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book for managers
- By Capnbody on 01-08-18
By: Bernard Marr
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Attacker's Advantage
- Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
- By: Ram Charan
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 69
In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous best sellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book - volume lower than usual
- By James Gajewski on 06-14-15
By: Ram Charan
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Jobs to Be Done
- A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation
- By: Stephen Wunker, David Farber, Jessica Wattman
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
Jobs to Be Done gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a road map for discovering new markets, new products, and new services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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YouTube talks are better.
- By BizTech Readings on 12-27-16
By: Stephen Wunker, and others
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The Science of Growth
- How Facebook Beat Friendster - and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust
- By: Sean Ammirati, Richard Florida - foreword
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that. The next challenge is growth - to achieve the financial returns and, more importantly, the impact they dreamed of when starting off on their adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book
- By Josh on 04-29-16
By: Sean Ammirati, and others
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Scale
- Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back
- By: Jeff Hoffman, David Finkel
- Narrated by: David Finkel
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 186
Business owners want growth but fear it will take over their lives. Surprisingly, the only way to truly grow your company is to reduce its reliance on you - to scale. Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel offer a blueprint to rapidly grow your business while also gaining more freedom. Based on their own experiences starting, scaling, and effectively exiting from multiple successful companies, they provide seven clear principles that will help you determine the best strategy for growth in your company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All stuff no fluff
- By Jonathan Bonanno on 05-25-21
By: Jeff Hoffman, and others
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Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future
- By: Lasse Rouhiainen
- Narrated by: Rodger Paxton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
Artificial intelligence is changing our world faster than we can imagine, and it will impact every area of our lives. And this is happening whether we like it or not. You might have heard that many jobs will be replaced by automation and robots, but did you also know that at the same time a huge number of new jobs will be created by AI? This book covers many fascinating and timely topics related to artificial intelligence, including: self-driving cars, robots, chatbots, and how AI will impact the job market, business processes, and entire industries, just to name a few.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Completely useless
- By Joe V on 03-29-19
By: Lasse Rouhiainen
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Shortcut Your Startup
- Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches
- By: Carter Reum, Courtney Reum
- Narrated by: Carter Reum
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Courtney and Carter Reum have years of experience in the field, from investing in over 130 companies, including Lyft, Pinterest, Warby Parker, and ClassPass, to driving the success of their own liquor brand, VEEV Spirits. The Reum brothers have learned from every triumph and tribulation and over the years have developed an effective and easy-to-understand guide to help entrepreneurs through the startup journey from inception to sale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for start ups
- By Dave on 02-09-18
By: Carter Reum, and others
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Driving Digital
- The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology
- By: Isaac Sacolick
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
The race is on to become a digital enterprise. Every organization has a plan for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that's not enough anymore. With disruptive startups outperforming industry stalwarts, executives everywhere are pushing greater growth and innovation. Staying competitive demands a complete digital transformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book I have read on Digital Transformation
- By Holistic Health on 10-20-17
By: Isaac Sacolick
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The Toyota Way
- 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
- By: Jeffrey K. Liker
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41
In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good short intro
- By Shane K. on 07-16-24
By: Jeffrey K. Liker
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Design to Grow
- How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (And How You Can Too)
- By: David Butler, Linda Tischler
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In Design to Grow, a Coca-Cola senior executive shares both the successes and failures of one of the world's largest companies. In this rare and unprecedented behind-the-scenes look, David Butler and senior Fast Company editor Linda Tischler, use case studies to show how this works at Coca-Cola - and how other companies can use the same approach to grow their business. This audiobook is a must for managers inside large corporations as well as entrepreneurs just getting started.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content, difficult narration
- By nicholas hork on 05-06-15
By: David Butler, and others
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Designing for Growth
- A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
- By: Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook requires regular book
- By GoingGoingGone... on 07-01-18
By: Jeanne Liedtka, and others
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- Elsa Braun
- 10-12-16
Hodgepodge of information often unrelated to a specific IT project failure scenario.
Jarringly inconsistent. The 90 minute book starts with a long introduction that is not informative. Next, the author covers a number of failed IT projects, which are fascinating topics and should make for a fascinating book. However, the author focuses on minor details while scrimping on information about project background, goals, personnel and what led up to the failure. Most disconcerting were the inaccuracies. Example: Bitcoin was a failed project because the project manager took drugs as trade for the original collection of bitcoin. A more standard explanation is that bitcoin is an experiment in a decentralized digital currency based on blockchain technology, that if successful, could become a disruptive technology. The originator of bitcoin is unknown and his/her identity is one of the Internet's great mysteries. The book ends with a bunch of project management rules. I found these unwelcome because I have several excellent books devoted to project management and project management rules.
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- Texas
- 03-11-16
Very informative!
This is a great resource for someone moving into the project management arena or a great review for those who have been in the business and have seen project failures from time to time. I would definitely recommend it!
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