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During the process of managing a project, requirements and approaches are changed, depending on the project implementation stage or certain challenges that occur during the project implementation. The degree of project's complexity changes over its life cycle phases, where the uncertainty might be considered as highest at the initial phase with the tendency to reduce as information gathers over time...
Today is precious is the presence of the head of a developed emotional intelligence because the head is necessary to capture the mood of subordinates and employees. This article briefly outlines the concept of the Professional Project Manager — the person who unites the main groups of professional competences and has a highly developed level of emotional intelligence. These competences are divided...
The article deals with the constructing of the decision-making system using the modern software which supports the automation of reporting and management. For this purpose we will implement the procedure of quality estimation and risk-contributing factors forecasting. The system can be used for the formation of the development strategy of the high-technology enterprises.
The success of breakthrough projects and programs depends on two groups of factors: (i) the competence of organisations in managing of this projects and programs; (ii) "Entrepreneurial spirit (energy)" that is formed by the leadership of the organisation successful completion of the breakthrough projects. The success of the breakthrough project, as a management category, has contradictions...
Globally, there have been growing needs to form a project team structure with the members consisted of diverse talents in order for an enterprise to prompt creative and innovative views on business values created from projects. With this type of multi-cultural team, there are higher risk of conflicts occurred among the team members due to difference in perceptions on a type of team culture that the...
The purpose of this paper is to explore and define key characteristics, tendencies, needs and expectations that distinguish the generation of Millennials from the generation of Baby Boomers. The paper will present both theoretical and practical overview in order to create effective education program and training system in the organization which is appealing to the Millennial generation, a workforce...
The implementation of any project requires not only the development of project documents: the criteria for the project success, WBS-structure, the Matrix of Responsibilities, the budget, the Gantt diagram, etc., but also an unambiguous understanding of all these documents by all participants in the project process: stakeholders, project manager and movable context. As practice shows, this unambiguous...
This paper summarises Ph.D. research study in strategy, project and programme management at SKEMA Business School of France. The research has been construed as an in-depth case study of a fast-growing hotel chain company in Southern China with 36 hotels to scientifically find the positive impact of Confucian cultural values introduced by the company on the hotel chain management and the proactive...
Nowadays, flexibility of project management attracts practitioners and scholars attention as a must-have quality to enable managing project complexity. Increased complexity of infrastructure projects needs such management approach which takes the (increasing) complexity into account. Literature sheds light on importance of flexibility in project management while practice of project management in construction...
While managing the project it is important to realize the type and scale of it as well as the influence on the company's strategic goals. It could be useful to know what projects, por-grammes or portfolios are strategic and what of them are not. It is helpful for project managers to know the certain criteria for distinguishing the project, porgrammes and portfolios regarding their strategic (or non-strategic)...
This academic research paper addresses how designers contribute to value creation in design-build (DB) projects. In addition to identifying contextual constraints, this paper suggests measures on how designers can maximize value creation. The results are based on a literature review in combination with three separate case studies of Norwegian building projects. Each case study consists of interviews...
This article suggests the hypothesis that a higher competency in program and portfolio management is required for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) within Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which is the special preferential economic and regulatory conditions for local and foreign companies to develop a programs and projects related to the growth of the social, trade, technological, scientific and innovative...
Social networks and their tools compound sophisticated compositions. Recent studies investigated diverse withstanding aspects of these socio-cyber systems. However, some methodological issues of the international medical networks required further clarification. In this regard, we stratified the networks that support human relations into the layers of private sector, national, provincial, local governments,...
Nowadays, under the circumstance of open innovation, R&D organizations of dual-coupled mode have been used in China to solve such problems existing in R&D organizations as repetition and fragmentation of institutions and research programs, low commercialization rate of scientific research results, single operating mode and the phenomenon of research lagging behind the development of industry...