• Actions for cost-efficiency are co-created with public construction projects. Change is carried out in the context of permanent organization. A change mindset needed to permanently reduce project cost. Implementation necessary achieve lasting by a strategic initiative. The cost projects central topic management. However, studies have primarily focused on at level, not management portfolio lev...

a r t i c l e i n f o As countries strive to become more efficient in investing limited resources in various national R&D projects, the evaluation of project has become increasingly important. However, due to the heterogeneity of the objectives of national R&D programs, few studies have been conducted on comparing programs on the basis of performance. This study explores the application of the ...

As the outsourcing industry matures, there is a growing recognition that a more holistic evaluation of outsourcing performance is required. The parameters and the criteria for evaluation would change in a long-term strategic oriented outsourcing partnership. This paper attempts to examine how performance measures used by customers change during a long-term partnership. It is an exploratory stud...

Project managers are grappling with a variety of risks today as a result of increasing complexity and dynamics of projects in different stages of project life cycle. Thus, it seems quite necessary to employ an efficient risk management process that can overcome the shortcomings of traditional methods in order to handle such complexities and reach the optimal project management. This matter is e...

As project management is becoming more strategic and business oriented, new and formal approaches are needed to address the changes in the profession. Strategic Project Leadership (SPL) is a comprehensive, research-based approach to project management. It combines the strategic, business-related aspects of projects, the need to adapt a project to its unique level of innovation and context, the ...

In 1957, the Navy’s Special Projects Office approached APL for assistance in developing the Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Strategic Weapon System. The primary task was to define and execute a comprehensive FBM test and evaluation program to validate the integrated weapon system design. The launch of Sputnik created a widespread view that a “missile gap” existed with the Soviet Union. In...

This paper touches the current state of the art for selection algorithms of projects in a project portfolio and extends the existing approaches by prioritizing projects according to their strategic contribution based on a Balanced Scorecard (BSC).

The conceptual phase of capital projects is of strategic importance an economic evaluation at this early stage is critical to the owners’ decision-making with limited information. The current study developed a comprehensive but practical system that can be used in such an early phase for economic evaluation of capital building construction projects. The system integrates four analytical steps: ...

BACKGROUND This paper presents the methodology and findings from a proof-of-concept study undertaken to explore the viability of conducting a systematic, largely qualitative synthesis of evaluation reports emanating from Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) projects in developing countries. METHODS Computer assisted thematic qualitative analysis was conducted on recommendation sections from 3...