"BACKGROUND As detailed more thoroughly in Chapter 1, project health assessments are not a new concept. They have been conducted ever since project sponsors realized a project was "failing" and took action to prevent that failure. Even formal methodologies to evaluate project health are not new:...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What makes an SAP-Project so different? -- Chapter 3. The SAP S/4HANA project: How it should be -- Chapter 4. The SAP S/4HANA Project: How it is -- Chapter 5. The underestimated success factor: people -- Chapter 6. Project Planning, Control and Quality...

The budgetary pressures, scarcity of resources, and incessant increases in the demand for public services have driven the Malaysian government to involve the private sector in the development of infrastructure through public–private partnership (PPP) projects. Despite the benefits of PPP...

Project portfolio management ensures a hierarchy of purpose and effective prioritization of projects in achieving organization’s strategic objectives. This study argues that the lack of discipline in integrating projects makes project portfolio investments and anticipated benefits unclear,...

Chapter 1: The Unpredictable Environment and Role of Innovation -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneurs, the Innovation Process and the Management of Uncertainty -- Chapter 3: The Necessity and the Drawbacks of Product and Process Innovation -- Chapter 4: A Review of Excessive Development Studies on the...

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation. By studying these approaches, the authors present techniques for enhancing project...

The environmental footprint of the global construction industry has emerged as a major concern in an era of massive urbanization across the world. Drawing on the complex and under-explored role of project sustainability management (PSM) and high performance work systems (HPWS), this study...

A pragmatic approach to business innovation is to bridge transformational entrepreneurship with the management of innovation-based projects. However, scholars have given limited attention to the underlying factors that explain linkages between entrepreneurial orientation and project success....