Project management has grown rapidly in the last few decades in numerous developingcountries, and is now commonly used in various fields: construction, agriculture,manufacturing, IT, telecommunications, education etc. The high value of effective projectmanagement was determined by the high...

Highway construction projects are associated with various risks. It is compulsory for highway project stakeholders to include project risk management in their project plans to avoid time and cost overrun. The main objective of this paper is to improve the performance of highway construction...

Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Project Management Traditional Principles -- 1.1 Projects -- 1.2 Initiating Projects -- 1.2.1 Specifying Project Values, Objectives, and Deliverables -- 1.2.1.1 Understanding the Raison D'être of the Project -- 1.2.1.2 Cutting the Project in a Priori...

Information Technology (IT) can satisfy the "needs and wants" of citizens. However, the Government sector must grasp new ways of thinking, new ways of doing business, new alliances and new technology. This is vital in order to give citizens the services they want, the way they want them and when...

Significant research on risk management has focused on the development and assessment of risk management models. However, risk management has been often criticized as being inadequate and not achieving its main objectives of bringing greater certainty to projects by minimizing threats and...

In times of increased competition and globalization, project success becomes even more critical to business performance, and yet many projects still suffer delays, overruns, and even failure. Ironically, however, risk management tools and techniques, which have been developed to improve project...

This teaching note provides step-by-step instruction for simulating the net present value and the internal rate of return of a five-year project. The uncertainty lie in the initial level of sales, sales growth rates, gross profit margins, operating expenses before depreciation, and the terminal...

Project-competence has a role in perceived risk. Our research objective was to detect project-actors' presumptions about performance risk in relation to the supplier's expected performance. We investigated investment projects with significant and insignificant tangible content. By exploring...

This paper offers significant improvements to project risk measurement by offering a simple to use formula and calculation method instead of the usually used unnecessarily complex and unhandy project risk matrices. Also, the article offers significant improvements to the valuation of enterprises...

Purpose – Logistic service providers (LSPs) are increasingly required to take over the ownership of network-specific inventories and to finance related working capital. The paper examines the nature of associated uncertainties, especially behavioural risks and illustrates the mechanisms of the...