Purpose: In most companies achieving or delivering quality product or service becomes a complex task especially when setting up a new production process; every time focusing on project completion, meeting deadlines and quality check at the end of the production. Two types of quality checks can...

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...

Project management and projects typically generate a lot of knowledge but unfortunately a formal closure to collect, catalog and archive the documents / information will not be executed. The causes of this improper closure of the project is generally due to the senior management that considers...

It is a conceptual paper that is supported by a case study done in a project oriented company and its subject matters are related to such business processes as project performance assessment, knowledge management, corporate governance through translating strategy into project operational goals,...

The importance of project management has been increasing in the face of the changing environment, new challenges, globalization and specialization in global economy. This means that the achievement of the final objective of a project on schedule and on budget becomes a key challenge for many...

Purpose: The purposes of this paper are to examine the relationships among the information technology, knowledge sharing and firm’s innovation, and while the knowledge sharing as mediating effect is also simultaneously investigated on the relationship between information technology and...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most important driving forces promoting economic growth in the economy. However, one puzzling question concerns the efficient and effective impact of ICT on educational outputs and outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to...

An extension to the recent dimensionality-reduction technique t-SNE is proposed. The extension facilitates t-SNE to handle mixed-type datasets. Each attribute of the data is associated with a distance hierarchy which allows the distance between numeric values and between categorical values be...

The use of modern educational technology methods, in order to support learning as well as collaboration, has become an important area of research. Specially with the rise of the internet and web 2.0 platforms that have transformed users’ role from mere content consumers to fully content...