Collaboration Management

New Project and Partnering Techniques

Edited by Haydn Shaughnessy

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About the Contributors                            
Series Preface

CHAPTER 1 The Practice of Collaboration Management
Haydn Shaughnessy

New skills requirements -- Collaboration management
 -- Corporate networking -- Replacing traditional
alliances -- Infrastructure opportunities and
collaboration -- The nature of collaboration
management -- Transient relationships -- Key skills of
collaboration management -- Summary -- A new
learning resource

CHAPTER 2 Managing the Search for Partners
                    Nicholas Parker

Forms of collaboration -- The collaboration
process -- Identification of needs -- Getting the format
right: alternatives to formal joint ventures and
mergers -- Structuring the search -- Dealing with
cliches -- Selection of partner


CHAPTER 3 New Objectives for Legal Agreements in
                    Collaborative Management
                    Willem Gooijer and Haydn Shaughnessy

Rethinking contractual relationships -- Contracts and
relationship quality --  Contracts and relationship
objectives: 10 ways to orientate contracts towards
good relationships


CHAPTER 4 Contract Acquisition and Partnering Strategies
                    Martin Collins

Factors stimulating collaboration in public
contracts -- The European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development -- The World Bank --  PHARE and
TACIS -- European Investment Bank (EIB) -- New
EC procurement laws -- The EC's structural funds -- 
Identifying the right partnering strategy  -- Partnering
checklist


CHAPTER 5 Risk Analysis and Inherent Risk -- Management
                    Priorities
                    Chris Chapman

How, why and where of risk analyses -- The base
plan -- The benefits of formal risk -- management
processes -- The nature of formal project
risk -- management processes -- Qualitative analysis: the
identification or scope phase -- Qualitative analysis:
the structure phase -- Qualitative analysis: the
parameter phase


CHAPTER 6 Anticipating Problems: Project Risk Assessment and
                 Project Risk Management
                    Kris Nielsen and Pat Galloway

The risk issue -- Getting a picture of project risk -- 
Where does project risk occur? -- How is project risk
analysed? -- What is the result and on what projects
is application appropriate?

CHAPTER 7 Project Monitoring
                    Gavin Warnock

The nature of monitoring, --  Monitoring and
evaluation -- Monitoring and management -- Timing
and funding of monitoring  -- Recent experience with
monitoring -- Monitoring and peer review -- 
Monitoring and collaborative project management


CHAPTER 8 Time Management in Managerial Roles
Colin Mackay
Time and quality --  Time management and time
measurement -- Characteristics of a good time -- 
management system -- Implementing time
measurement: nine steps to implement time
recordings

CHAPTER 9 Successful Capacity Management: Creating the
                 "Just-in-Time" Project
                    Ulrich Crombach and Klaus-Joachim Lemke

Thinking about the "just-in-time" project  -- Focusing
on costs -- The concept of model calculation -- 
Capacity management -- Components of a successful
capacity management system


CHAPTER 10 When Things Go Wrong: Making Effective Use of
                    New Arbitration Procedures
                    John Kendall

Uncertainty and disputes -- Governing law -- 
Forum -- Litigation -- Arbitration -- Alternative
Dispute Resolution (ADR) -- Expert determination -- 
National arbitration systems -- International
arbitration -- The ideal arbitration clause -- Tactics -- 
Arbitration procedure -- Managing a dispute: six key
skills of a good arbitration lawyer -- Enforcing an
award

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