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...

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...