Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamics of management and control in collaborations with suppliers of critical technology. Design/methodology/approach – Three collaborative product development projects at a system integrator in the Telecom industry were studied. The data was collected through 22 semi-structured interviews and a workshop at the studied company and its suppli...

■ An innovative negotiation methodology for managing conflicts in construction projects is presented in this article where multiple decision makers are involved. The proposed negotiation methodology has a unique ability to consider the attitudes of the decision makers, which is an important psychological factor in the negotiations that take place in various stages of a construction project. The...

Recently, the importance of Information Technology (IT) for effective Knowledge Management (KM) activities has been stated. Effective KM projects alone cannot lead to success without the support of IT, and vice versa. Thus aligning proper IT and KM strategies to fit the business strategy is the key to reducing costs, which in turn leads to higher performance. Drawing on the concept of strategic...

Strategic Planning for Development, including the Conservation of Different Dimensions of the Environment, has increasingly involved citizens, not simply to have their opinions but also to become involved in the planning process and in the initiation and management of different types of projects aimed at achieving the objectives of different Strategic Orientations identified in the Strategic De...

Despite the numerous success stories of organizations that have responded to external and internal stimuli to become knowledge-based, a number of organizations are still struggling to achieve the proposed benefits of managing their knowledge assets. By viewing KM as a strategic renewal process and studying the impact and interaction of strategic renewal forces with KM process forces, this paper...

In the transition to project based management within complex dynamic environments, a basic premise is that each industry organisation, professional discipline and individual, must cast off the shackles of accepted functional barriers, traditional roles and processes. As each project is unique, so is the experience of each organisation as it embraces the project management approach. Nevertheless...

This article presents projects as powerful strategic weapons, initiated to create economic value and competitive advantage. It suggests that project managers are the new strategic leaders, who must take on total responsibility for project business results. Defining and assessing project success is therefore a strategic management concept, which should help align project efforts with the shortan...

Culture is an important topic in strategic information systems (IS) research, particularly because information technology (IT) projects are often accompanied by cultural challenges. While culture has been widely analyzed in this discipline, there is a lack of research that systematically examines the role of culture in strategic IS research. With a structured literature review, we investigate t...

As projects are important to business success and the success or failure of a project partly depends on who manages it, assigning a project to a project manager is therefore among the strategic decisions in project management. Despite its importance, literature on project manager assignment is rather limited. In practice, with the resource constraints faced by a typical organization, making app...

This paper analyzes the investment timing for team projects. Under demand uncertainty, it is valuable to maintain flexibility in future investment alternatives. However, one party’s flexibility creates strategic uncertainty for another party, which causes the other party to choose a higher level of flexibility. This strategic complementarity leads to delays in investments in contrast to the cas...