Firms are often facing a dilemma - whether to develop several innovative projects in-house or finance them as independent entities (spin-offs). This paper provides additional insight which helps to resolve this dilemma. We show that for relatively independent projects, spinning them off...

Summary of Assumptions -- 1 Basic Concepts -- 1.1 Directed Graphs and Activity Networks -- 1.2 GERT Networks -- 1.3 Assumptions Required for GERT Networks -- 1.4 Evaluation of GERT Networks -- 1.5 Subnetworks of GERT Networks -- 2 STEOR Networks -- 2.1 Stochastic Processes Connected with STEOR...

"Preface Every project needs management for two reasons. The first is to plan and manage the tasks of a project and to coordinate getting the work done. The other is to optimize the value of a project as an investment. Managing projects as investments is the new frontier of project management....

Introduction to developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks -- Foundation concepts -- First steps : scoping the monitoring and evaluation framework, stakeholder mapping, and evaluation capacity building -- Program theory and program logic as foundations for the monitoring and evaluation...

Irrespective of quantitative or qualitative, ex-post evaluation techniques proposed in telecenter literature suffer from the drawback of non-experimental design that does not isolate the outcome of a treatment from other possible influences. Ex-ante experimental design is ideal as controlled...