Tools for Project Management, Workshops and Consulting: A Must-Have Compendium of Essential Tools and Techniques

Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook-style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness.

In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task-specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Information Consolidation, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox.

Information provided by this book is:

• comprehensive and sufficiently wide in scope, combined with a practical level of detail without being too academic
• reliable and proven in numerous real implemented cases
• easy to apply due to many different search options, checklists, application scenarios and guiding instructions.

Written by a professional consultant, business analyst and business coach, this book is a unique reference work and guide for those wanting to learn about or who are active in the fields of consulting, project management and problem solving in general.

About the Author

Nicolai Andler graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a combined Masters of Commerce and Masters of Chemical Engineering degree with distinction. The Technical University of Berlin is one of the few universities that have a faculty for systems engineering, which is the science on which this book is partly based. He also holds a Master of Management degree from the French Graduate School of Business in Toulouse (Grande Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse – MBA equivalent) with a specialization in 'management of multinational groups' and 'international business strategies.'

Before founding his own company, the Ignite Group, Nicolai Andler was a senior consultant with an IT and CRM consultancy for several years. Prior to working in the IT consulting field, he had freelance experience in management consulting in Europe and several years of management consulting (business transformation projects focusing on business process reengineering and supply chain improvements) with an international management consultancy in South Africa. He has worked with clients in the financial services (retail banking, life insurance, and employee benefit), public sector (education, revenue and customs, government agencies), waste management, chemical and petrochemical industries.