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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of two formal controls, namely target rigidity and process autonomy, on team adaptability and project success in new product development (NPD) projects. Target rigidity refers to performance goals that are non-negotiable once they...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which user liaison behavior and outcome control influence the process performance of information technology (IT) projects and how the IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability of user liaisons affect...
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This paper aims at introducing benchmarking to management practitioners. Emphases have been placed on the … as a result of assisting in promoting management perspectives and facilitating the formation of various specific goals …
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Management, South Bank University). Heller argues that at the core of IBM′s problem was a gap between its management perceptions … in culture within the organization. It is also necessary to combine the effective management of these performance …
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Examines the concepts of value and information in terms of management. Although changes in information technology are …
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Two of the most common reasons for not implementing a risk management program are cost and benefit. This paper focuses … intervention during a risk management program may alter the outcome in ways we cannot separate and therefore cannot cost out. A … (SDT) can be used to analyze data collected during a risk management program to disambiguate the confounding effects of …
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Examines how individual projects will affect the organization’s stated desire to “add value” by its operations, particularly how the market will judge each project on this basis. Considers rates of return, risk and cost of capital. Provides practical guidance for managers seeking to...
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management’s judgment that uniquely selected trust categories should be emphasized to build trust on this project.  …
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Purpose – To apply the theories of project management to the transformation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF … ultimate form of “competition”. Thus, difficult lessons of strategic management, people (both men and women) management, and … prowess, the many elements were combined successfully. Although applying warfare principles to company management has become …
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Purpose – Lean construction looks into the possibility of bringing successful lean production theories into the construction industry. It was believed that lean production principles could also be influenced by the essence of military strategies, specifically that of Sun Tzu's Art of War (ST)...
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