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Managing by Projects: Strategic Perspective
A Changing Public Sector environment: The Importance of a Strategic Response
The changing nature of public sector management
Analysing the environment: the systems approach
Characteristics of the management environment
Implications of the environment on public management
Ways in which management reacts towards the environment
Strategic Management: The Process
Strategic management defined
Strategic planning: envisioning an institutionﾒs future
Strategic management: the process
From Strategy to Implementation: The Use of Projects
Managing by projects
Setting up project support offices
Strategy implementation/project management interface
Establishing a project-based management structure
Project implementation
Managing Change through Projects
Change Management: Transforming Institutional Service Delivery through Projects
Conceptualisation: change management
The scale of change on public institutions
The principles of change
Types of change
Stability and chance
The context of change in the South African public service
Change in a strategic project management environment
From change to projects
Change Management: The Process
Three phases of transition
The change management process
Elements that often derail change initiatives
Managing the Human aspects of Change
Resistance to change
Reactions to change
Managing resistance to change
Role of transitional communication
Cultural aspects of change management
Role of project managers as change agents
Managing change: skills requirements |