Megaproject Development and Decision Making: Strategies for Successful Projects and Investments
The success of a megaproject is decided long before execution begins.
Description
Why do so many billion-dollar megaprojects fail—and how can leaders prevent it?
Megaproject Development and Decision Making delivers a clear and compelling answer. Drawing on decades of global leadership across energy, mining, refining, and infrastructure, Akin Oni reveals a critical truth: the fate of major projects is not determined during execution, but much earlier—during development, evaluation, governance, and decision-making.
This book challenges the assumption that cost overruns and delays are inevitable. Instead, it exposes how weak evaluation processes, poor risk discipline, and misaligned stakeholders quietly set projects up for failure long before approval is granted.
Through practical frameworks and real-world insight, readers are equipped to make better investment decisions, strengthen governance, and build alignment across complex project environments.
Far more than a technical manual, this is a call to lead differently. Megaprojects are not just financial or engineering undertakings—they are long-term commitments that shape economies, societies, and legacies.
What You’ll Learn / Key Frameworks
- Megaproject development and evaluation discipline
- Capital allocation and investment decision-making
- Risk identification and mitigation strategies
- Governance structures and accountability systems
- Embedding ethics, sustainability, and long-term value
Audience
Executives, project leaders, investors, and boards responsible for large-scale capital projects and strategic infrastructure investments.