As the connectivity of the business environment increases, as a result of rapid technological development, project teams are becoming more geographically dispersed. Given that team members may be positioned on different parts of the globe, multi-cultural issues may become more prominent, providing further complications for the project manager. Project planning and decision-making, therefore, be...

As the connectivity of the business environment increases, as a result of rapid technological development, project teams are becoming more geographically dispersed. Given that team members may be positioned on different parts of the globe, multi-cultural issues may become more prominent, providing further complications for the project manager. Project planning and decision-making, therefore, be...

An ongoing question is what constitutes the characteristics of a project manager. This subject many studies. The characteristics, skills, abilities and knowledge managers—essential factors in project’s success—describe their level competency. study aims to assess relationship between manager competencies complexity information technology (IT) sector. In total, 21 semi-structured interviews were...

Increasing sophistications and complexity of modern projects create new challenges to design management practices. This paper discusses an integrated approach for managing design complexity in engineering projects. Innovations in architectural design, construction processes, information technology and communications and increasing regulations have significant contributions in resulting complexi...

This paper presents a structured Project Risk Interactions Management (PRIM) process designed to make risk response planning decisions taking into account the complex interactions that potentially exist between project risks. Projects are facing tight constraints, uncertainty and change. Moreover, they are dealing with higher stakes and an ever-growing complexity, which implies that they are mo...

IT carve-out projects are complex and cost-intensive components of M&A transactions. Existing research sheds little light on the determinants project complexity and/or its effects divestor performance. Instead, has focused post-acquisition integration acquirer This paper presents first divestor-centric model transactions from to when a Business Unit in Multi-Business Organization (MBO) is carve...

Background The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network (EQTN) has been implemented in the province of Quebec (Canada) to support pathology and surgery practices in hospitals that are lack of pathologists, especially in rural and remote areas. This network includes 22 hospitals and serves a population of 1.7 million inhabitants spread over a vast territory. An evaluation of this network was conduct...