"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...

Development of healthcare services is a societal responsibility often appearing as major public projects. These types of projects often have a long lifetime expectancy and represent large investments and changes to established welfare systems with a considerable societal impact. This makes...

In this article we present findings from an investigation into the influence of partnering success factors on multi-partner projects’ abilities to meet time schedule, budget, and technical specifications. Our findings are based on the analysis of nation-wide surveys within the engineering...

By analysing public infrastructure projects in Germany, especially those concerning stakeholder engagement, we observed ‘learning from external stakeholders’ took place. Projects and stakeholders appeared to benefit from this learning (e.g. by identifying project-relevant information,...

Project success (PS) has been the focus of researchers for the last two decades. However, many projects continue to fail. This study explored three of the most investigated features of leadership and their impact on project success. This study's specific purpose was to determine the effect of...

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...