Integrated Framework for Project Management Office Evaluation

Introducing a Project Management Framework for Transfer of Technologies

This paper aims at emphasizing the importance of establishing a Project Management (PM) system in Technology Transfer (TT) processes and developing a conceptual framework for it. TT is an important process in Technology Management affairs for all enterprises.  Most of the time, lack of a particular concentration on technical, commercial and legal aspects of TT process, leads to mismanagement of...

A Framework to Establish a Project Management Office

This research presents a framework of the needed steps and process to establish a successful Project Management Office (PMO). This framework is driven by the different functions and roles that may be performed by a Project Management Office (PMO) as well as the type of PMO that would best serve organizations. Significant gains can be achieved by using the proposed framework. This framework is d...

An Integrated Human Resource Planning Framework for Project-based Organizations in Oil and Gas Industry

The complexities of the oil industry, combined project-based organizations’ complexities, have led the traditional planning of HR being failed. The success of these organizations is based on integrative human resource planning. To this end, the purpose of this study was to determine the factors and components of human resource planning in oil and gas project-based organizations and providing an...

Development of a National Mega Research Project on the Integrated Watershed Management for Iran

The Project Office as Project Management Support in Complex Environments

In the academic sector, most engineering research funding presupposes collaborative projects. Collaboration between academia and industry is encouraged. This approach creates successive complexity in most Research and Development (R&D) projects in many ways. Projects funded by the European Commission or jointly funded by national agencies are often encouraged to become large, competing companie...