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Strategies for achieving first-to-market status with each new product Project management excellence is essential if your organization is to gain the competitive edge that comes with being first to market. Accelerated Project Management shows how you can reduce time on all your product development projects without adding unnecessary risk or cost. James P. Lewis and Louis Wong, two of todayis leaders in project management innovation, detail tools and techniques you can use to: * Avoid the enemies of project speed, from excessive project size to poor planning, insufficient resources, and perfectionism* Prioritize projects, creating a top-down sense of urgency and importance* Establish an Innovation Project Office (IPO) to act as a key linkage between strategy and implementation, and provide early warning when projects are losing focus and control Project leaders at top companies from Hewlett Packard to Cisco have discovered that to increase product development speed they must create clear product roadmaps, involve manufacturing in the process from square one, and eliminate rework through stringent quality standards and double-checks.Accelerated Project Management will show you how to adopt and improve upon these techniques in your organization, and dramatically increase project speed without sacrificing end-product quality in todayis high-stakes new product development race.

Modern Methods for Theoretical Physical Chemistry of Biopolymers provides an interesting selection of contributions from an international team of researchers in theoretical chemistry. This book is extremely useful for tackling the complicated scientific problems connected with biopolymers' physics and chemistry. The applications of both the classical molecular-mechanical and molecular-dynamical methods and the quantum chemical methods needed for bridging the gap to structural and dynamical properties dependent on electron dynamics are explained. Also included are ways to deal with complex problems when all three approaches need to be considered at the same time. The book gives a rich spectrum of applications: from theoretical considerations of how ATP is produced and used as 'energy currency' in the living cell, to the effects of subtle solvent influence on properties of biopolymers and how structural changes in DNA during single-molecule manipulation may be interpreted.� Presents modern successes and trends in theoretical physical chemistry/chemical physics of biopolymers� Topics covered are of relevant importance to rapidly developing areas in science such as nanotechnology and molecular medicine� Quality selection of contributions from renowned scientists in the field