Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes

Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes. 2014. Lory Mitchell Wingate. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis (CRC Press). 517 pages.

In this book, Wingate specifically addresses a challenge many seniorand executive-level managers currently face: how to effectively control the projects and processes within an organization, while still creating the right environment to support more unbounded creativity and innovation. By focusing on the research and development (R&D) function, this project management resource stands out among comparable texts, which tend to emphasize the techniques over...