This paper presents an ongoing work at the Institute of Aeronautics and Space (IAE) to provide a process and a system to support the management of knowledge and new technologies applied to the conception and development of the Brazilian Satellite Launcher Program. This management is not only necessary to organize the actual research efforts but also to identify communalities and necessities for...

Many strategic challenges impeding the success of primary health care are rooted in weak strategic inputs, including intersectoral collaboration. Some encouraging evidence from programmes, projects, and studies suggests that intersectoral collaboration is feasible and useful. The strategy has the potential to fast-track the attainment of Millenium Development Goals. However, the strategy is not...

Electronic voting could increase citizens’ electoral participation and trust in countries characterized by fragile democratic institutions and public discredit of the political system such as those in Latin America. This paper examines attitudes towards e-voting among participants in a large scale pilot project conducted in Colombia in 2007, focusing on the perceived reliability and usability o...

Public and private organizations continuously invest on projects. With a number of candidate projects bigger than those ones that can be funded, the organization faces the problem of selecting a portfolio of projects that maximizes the expected benefits. The selection is made on the evaluation of project groups and not on the evaluation of single projects. However, there is a factor that must b...

Project management is a practice that has been there for long time. It can be traced to the ancient use in constructing of Egyptian pyramids stand date. However, it only from 1950s project as field started being professionalized with massive by United States Navy war operations. Management found important ensuring projects are completed within right time, budget, scope and have impact stakehold...

This paper reports on the effectiveness of the project management and investment frameworks in the State of Victoria. It finds project management and investment practices comparable to best practice but also finds 100 billion dollars invested in projects over the past decade without any evidence of improvement in strategic goals. It concludes that there may be systemic deficiencies in our proje...

This paper examines the incentives of voters to appoint legislators with different preferences from their own. The paper adopts an underlying legislative bargaining model proposed by Volden and Wiseman (2007) in which legislators with heterogeneous preferences divide a fixed budget between a public good and pork projects (local public goods). We show that voters have an incentive to strategical...

Management support in the form of project sponsorship has been recognized as critical to the success of information systems development and implementation efforts. However, there is little empirical evidence on the effect of project sponsorship. Drawing on extant literature, this study proposes that effective use of project sponsors is contingent upon the strategic importance and the level of u...

The modern knowledge worker is faced with managing their time across multiple projects. To ensure the successful completion of one project, the worker might be inclined to put more time into that project than was originally intended, at the expense of other projects with which they are involved. This paper looks at the impact of this type of strategic behavior on the output of research teams. O...

This paper presents a multicriteria decision model for selecting a portfolio of information system (IS) projects, which integrates strategic and organizational view within a multicriteria decision structure. The PROMETHEE V method, based on outranking relations is applied, considering the c-optimal concept in order to overcome some scaling problems found in the classical PROMETHEE V approach. T...