Successfully managing project team composition, development, and learning are critical competencies for high-performing, innovative technology firms. This paper presents a conceptual model and two cases of cross-functional project teams working inside innovative, technology-based companies. The...

Frequent commentaries in the literature have stated that certain critical success factors (CSFs) have to be accomplished in an organisation for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system project to be successful. In this study we argue and demonstrate empirically that success in implementing...

This paper highlights the subject of integrated projects planning (IPP) in contemporary IS departments, and presents a multi-period, multi-project selection and assignment approach (MPPA) to assist the departments in handling continuous project-based IS requests. The MPPA features a model to...

We investigate the problem of setting revenue sharing rules in a team production environment with a principal and two agents. We assume that the project output is binary and that the principal can observe the level of agents' actual effort, but does not know the production function. Identifying...

Anyone who has ever been involved in (managing) a project is most probably convinced of a complex correlation between project constraints, and a constant need to compromise. There lies the paradox of the conventional wisdom in project planning, setting the objectives and constraints, and...

This paper examines from a policy perspective nuclear energy policy in the United States (US) from 1990 to 2010 and questions whether it is or has become a Federal or State responsibility. The present study, as befits policy research, engages with many disciplines (for example, in particular,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the link between reaching a certain level of Project Management Maturity by the company and its projects cost performance. Design/methodology/approach: The world-wide study was conducted in order to measure the influence of the Project...

Purpose: The strategic selection of projects deals with the determination of a strategic fit and prioritization. The impact of the project selection process obviously shows on the future profits and growth of an organization. Since the organization is much relied on that growth, this study is...

The aim of this paper is to identify ways for improvement of the Foresight evaluation framework on the basis of analysis and systematisation of accumulated experience in the field of project management. The paper is based on a detailed literature review related to an evaluation of Foresight and...

Many organizations who deal with a variety of projects have the problem to compare the efficiency and eff ectiveness of all the projects in the organization and to learn from this experience. The PEM (Project Excellence Model) from IPMA (International Project Management Association) is an open,...