TY - BOOK AU - West,David TI - Project sponsorship: an essential guide for those sponsoring projects within their organizations SN - 9780566088889 (pbk.) PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey PB - Gower Pub. KW - Project management KW - Strategic planning KW - Business planning N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The value of project sponsorship to the organization -- Factors in the selection of the project sponsor -- Governance, reporting and management structures for the sponsorship of projects -- Health, safety and the environment -- Where projects come from : corporate strategy -- The project business case : will the project be worth it? -- Defining the project -- The players : selecting and leading the team -- Project finance -- Project commissioning and close out -- The project team -- Project planning -- Progress reporting -- Value engineering -- Risk management -- Quality management -- Commercial management -- Change control -- Stakeholder management ER -