Operational Readiness: How to Achieve Successful System Deployment

This book provides a guide to preparing business and operational environments to safely receive and utilize systems to prevent completed systems from failing to add value. It discusses the process and challenges of deploying the product into its intended operational environment and offers guidance to enable organizations to benefit from a holistic framework for Operational Readiness. It is essential reading for all those involved with managing large projects, including project managers, sponsors, and executives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 124 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book provides a valuable guide on how to prepare business and operational environments to safely receive and effectively utilize systems, such as project products, to prevent successfully completed systems from failing to add value to their intended environment. It is supplemented with four extended practical exercises to help readers apply the principles to their own large, complex projects and ensure project success.

Operational Readiness, a crucial practice in both Project Management (PM) and Systems Engineering (SE), remains relatively underdeveloped. As a result, many satisfactorily completed systems, such as satellites, aircraft, mine shafts, power plants, road and rail networks, hospitals, and schools, fail to deliver the expected value by improving their intended operational environment. In numerous cases, System Deployment also leads to adverse and detrimental effects on the business and operational environments, as well as on the broader environment.

To address these challenges, this book delves into the process and complexities of deploying a product into its intended operational environment. It offers guidance to enable organizations to leverage a holistic framework for Operational Readiness, which encompasses the preparation, integration, transition, and operation of systems within an organization.

The author discusses the key aspects of Operational Readiness, including risk management, change management, and stakeholder engagement. They provide practical insights and techniques to ensure that systems are successfully deployed, integrated, and operated within the intended environment, minimizing the risk of failure and maximizing the benefits of investment.

This forward-thinking book is essential reading for all those involved with managing large projects, including project managers, sponsors, and executives. It also serves as a valuable resource for advanced students of Project Management and Systems Engineering seeking to expand their knowledge of Operational Readiness, infrastructure projects, and systems deployment.

By implementing the principles outlined in this book, organizations can enhance their operational readiness and ensure that their systems contribute to the overall success of their business and operational environments.

Weight: 230g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032336480