Inspiring management of innovative projects

Innovative Practices for IT Projects

Based on 57 interviews with senior IT project managers in the UK Canada, USA and New Zealand, this article presents innovative practices they have developed during difficult projects. In our respondents’ view, traditional project management methods and techniques are only a starting point. Through their quotes, they show how one has to be creative and entrepreneurial to lead projects successfully.

Engineering Innovative Practice in Managing Design Projects

Most references to innovation relate to the development of new products. This paper does not address innovation in these terms, but as changes in practices an engineer creatively adopts during engineering design projects. The authors adopt Actor-Network Theory as a way to understand these change processes (translations). The authors design a perturbation index inspired in Earned Value managemen...

First Innovative Medicines Initiative Ebola projects launched.

The IMI Ebola+ programme was created in response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in western Africa. The projects bring together partners from the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries, public health bodies, academia, aid organisations, and small biotech companies in Europe, Africa and the United States. Previous experience at IMI has shown that consortia of this kind, which bring together div...

Managing Innovative IS Projects in Dot.com Companies

An Innovative Practice System of Information Management and Information System Specialty Based on Actual Projects

The practical teaching is the key link of training the students’ practical and creative ability in major of information management and information system. On the basis of analyzing the training goal and social demand of the major, an innovative practice system based on actual projects is constructed to solve the main problems exist in the practical teaching, by combining with the successful exp...