Background By considering innovation as a new project in hospitals, all the project management's standard steps should be followed in execution. This study investigated the validation of a new set of measures in terms of providing a procedure for knowledge management-oriented innovation that enriches the hospital management system. Methods The relation between innovation and all the knowledge...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the socio-technical structures prevailing in technical organizations. It explores relationships that exist between technical and social structures and imperative project management practices, using statistical techniques. The study investigates links between organization design structures, project management performance, multiple dimensions of project man...

earned value management is a critical project managementmethodology that evaluates project performance from cost andschedule viewpoints. the novel theoretical framework presented in thispaper estimates future performance of project regarding the past relativeinformation. it benefits from fuzzy regression (fr) models in estimationprocess in order to deal with the vagueness and impreciseness ofre...

Test engineers, their managers, as well as the project developers often have many different views and misconceptions about tools and methods that provide test automation support. This paper compares model-based testing with three other generations of test automation. Model-based test automation can be considered a fourth generation test automation. It supports defect prevention, early requireme...

Efficiency of projects is a central concern in project management. Such concerns have only been exacerbated with projects being increasingly distributed across firm and country boundaries. This study has a two-fold research agenda: First, it provides an understanding of how the efficiency of projects varies across project organization types, namely, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Offs...

Project management is a practice based profession. Just knowing the project management principles does not make a person a successful project manager. It is more important to assess how the candidate applies the project management principle in practice than merely knowing the theoretical aspects of project management. Project Managers play a critical role in the organization. They are responsib...

Nowadays, issues such as global climate change, poverty and inequity, and the unsustainable use of resources are driving organizations to incorporate the principles of sustainable development into projects. Sustainable development of organizations and companies requires consideration of all three sustainability dimensions: environmental, economic and social should integrate economic, social and...

This paper discussed an empirical research on success factors in innovation projects and analyzed the effect of environmental idiosyncrasies on their relative importance. Based on a cross-national survey, the study extracted five common success factors in China and Western developed countries. They are, namely, marketing skills, project strategy and process, management methodology and organizat...