Purpose – Projects are a part of everyday life in industrial firms, playing a relevant role in terms of accomplishing strategic objectives, implementing strategy, and developing competitive advantage. Projects are developed within industrial networks and have a momentum of their own. This...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide human resource (HR) leaders with a practical, straightforward approach to the challenge of building support (and reducing resistance). Building support for new programs is difficult in many organizations, and the cost of failed change is large. HR...

Today, all companies are more dependent than ever on projects for growth; that is how innovations begin and are implemented. The problem is deciding, in an uncertain environment, which projects are truly the high values ones and which ones need to be cancelled. This article offers a project...

Sun Microsystems is a high technology firm that depends upon innovation for survival. This interview of Sun’s Chief Information Officer, Bill Howard, gives insight into how this fast moving company balances the need for new development of innovations against limited resources. His goal: do...

Purpose – This paper aims to reveals how taking an elegantly simple approach to resolving complex issues can help teams identify, align and quickly execute on the areas with the greatest impact by examining a case of a failing, but ultimately successful, $180‐million offshore outsourcing...

Chronicles that success in stable periods makes organizations particularly vulnerable when sharp, sudden change is necessary. Suggests organizations need to both manage radical change and gradual change. Suggests the parallel of business organizations is to prosper through revolutionary...

Believes modern project management practices only began to emerge in 1939 — just before World War II. Identifies the US Air Force as the main breeding ground for many current programme and project management practices, including among others the space race, as the US chased the USSR after the...

Claims some organizations produce largely the same products or services year in, year out, e.g. issuing passports or driving licences, treating patients, handling financial transactions, assembling consumer products, etc. Uses 3 Figures to emphasize points made and discusses both the project...