Strategic Management or Construction Scheduling

Strategic Management: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

Author: Robert A Pitts

Strategic Management, 2e explores how to build, extend, organize and sustain a competitive advantage, focusing on five key themes: distinctive competence, quality, globalization, change, and ethics. Authors Robert Pitts and David Lei take an applied approach in which a company's strategic position or dilemma is dissected and analyzed in such a way that all key concepts and ideas are brought to bear for the reader.

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For use in business management courses, this textbook takes a competitive advantage perspective towards the material. Topics include the strategic management process, assessing industry attractiveness, firm capabilities, Leveraging resources, global strategy, strategic alliances, cooperation and autonomy, and building learning organizations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Construction Scheduling: Principles and Practices

Author: Jay S Newitt

Construction Scheduling: Principles and Practices contains very comprehensive and practical descriptions of step-by-step procedures for preparing all types of schedules. The text's real-world approach reflects the author's many years of practice in the field. The use of the computer as the primary scheduling tool is shown in the extensive coverage given to the major software packages.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Overview of project management basics	1
Ch. 2	Why schedule?	7
Ch. 3	Checklists, daily to-do lists, and magnetic scheduling boards	19
Ch. 4	Bar chart schedules	31
Ch. 5	Introduction to CPM scheduling	43
Ch. 6	Creating the network logic diagram	53
Ch. 7	Determining durations	67
Ch. 8	Calculating start and finish dates	75
Ch. 9	Calculating total, shared, free, independent, and negative float	91
Ch. 10	Using lags in network logic diagrams	107
Ch. 11	Reviewing and analyzing the schedule	119
Ch. 12	Creating bar charts and tabular reports from network logic diagrams	129
Ch. 13	Linear or line-of-balance schedules	149
Ch. 14	Updating the schedule	161
Ch. 15	Using the schedule to forecast and balance resources	173
Ch. 16	Cost schedule control system criteria (C/SCSC)	187
Ch. 17	Creating teamwork and getting subcontractors to conform to the schedule	195
Ch. 18	Other scheduling techniques	205
Ch. 19	Introduction to computerized CPM scheduling	217
Ch. 20	Managing projects using primavera project planner (P3)	225
Ch. 21	Managing projects using SureTrak	273
Ch. 22	Managing projects using microsoft project	319
Ch. 23	Managing projects using P3e/c	355