1st Edition

Project Feasibility Tools for Uncovering Points of Vulnerability

By Olivier Mesly Copyright 2017
590 Pages
by CRC Press

590 Pages 121 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

590 Pages 121 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing... Read more

Introduction and the Notion of Points of Vulnerability. Defining Project Feasibility vs. Vulnerability. Defining Prefeasibility vs. Vulnerability. Cost, Calendar and Challenges (The 4 P’s). Modeling Vulnerability. People and Power. Processes and Plan. Operating Margin and Decision-Making. Measuring Value. General Conclusion.

Biography



Olivier Mesly teaches university courses in Project Feasibility in English, French and Spanish around the world. He is currently associated as a professor with two Canadian universities (one in Québec and the other one in Nova Scotia, Canada) where he teaches six to seven courses a year.



Olivier completed a postdoctoral fellowship at HEC Montreal, has graduated as a doctor of business administration at the University of Sherbrooke, holds an MBA in international marketing from Guelph University and has a BA in Japanese studies from McGill University with honours as well as a diploma in Public relations from the same university. He has seven books, various case studies and more than thirty scientific articles to his credit.



He serves as a consultant on project feasibility for various Canadian companies, small and large, as well as for government agencies.