Rising external competition and cost-pressures compel internal service providers to re-define their customerserviceapproach. Providing value propositions to the intra-firm end-users instead of provisioning technicalresources becomes a necessity to facilitate transparency in costs and customer...

Carve out projects have recently become an emerging issue in practice and theory given the diversityof strategic foci of companies as well as recent merger and acquisition activities of firms. This paperhighlights the relevance of IT in such carve out projects. IT depicts their characteristics...

Erfolgreiche Teams machen Projekte erfolgreich! Dieser plakative Ausspruch hat durchaus seine Richtigkeit. Denn das Scheitern von Projekten, in diesem Falle von großen IT-Projekten, ist meist nicht das Resultat von Problemen mit Software und/oder Technologie. Für Projektkrisen sind in erster...

Managerial flexibility has value in the context of uncertain R&D projects,as management can repeatedly gather information about uncertain project and market characteristics and, based on this information,change its course of action.This value is now well accepted and referred to as real option...

For Software Applications, the 1990s was characterised by the implementation of ERP systems across Multinational organizations...

The characteristics and organizational impacts of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Project requires highly professional Project Manager skills and attributes. Some may be learned or bought but the more important skills need to be part of the Project Manager´s personal...

This paper deals with trends over a time-frame early 1990s to early 2000s showing how a Project Manager has evolved to be an Enterprise Coach, Leader, Supporter.

Nürnberg, 24.02.2010 - Mit 3.100 Neuzertifizierungen verzeichnet die PM-ZERT, dieunabhängige Zertifizierungsstelle der GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft fürProjektmanagement, einen neuen Rekord. Im wirtschaftlich schwierigen Jahr 2009wurde das Ergebnis des Vorjahres um über 15 % gesteigert. 2008...

Project risk management has become an important area of interest in project management practice over the past decade. Numerous best practice standards, tools and techniques have been developed focussing on a more effective risk management process. This process consists of four main phases:...