The importance of the front-end decision-making phase in projects is increasingly recognised. This area is under-represented in the literature, but there are some key issues during this stage. This paper looks at some of these themes, including: the need for alignment between organisational strategy and the project concept; dealing with complexity, particularly systemicity and interrelatedness ...

The paper illustrates the use of real options and game theory principles to value prototypical investment projects and capture important competitive/strategic dimensions in a step-by-step analysis of investment decisions (options) under uncertainty. It first illustrates the application of real options principles to a mining concession and to an R&D program. It then provides examples from innova...

Multicentre randomised trials are complex projects with many operational uncertainties. The embedding of a formal check upon study progress and viability at a pre-specified time point (sometimes referred to as an 'internal pilot') is becoming increasingly common within multicentre pragmatic randomised trials. However, it is worth considering this practice. We argue that most, if not all, multic...

With the popularity of educational evaluation studies, researchers have begun to mine text data provide helpful information for stakeholders. Despite frequent adoption textual analysis, few studies been found search and analyze from research projects. As highest-level most authoritative projects in China, Chinese National Education Science Planning could fully reflect fronts hotspots field. Thi...

Making decisions on strategic investments, such as early stage technology, is a complicated task. Early stage technologies are usually costly, and surrounded by uncertainty. The potential benefits are often hard to quantify prior to implementation. Thus, how could managers make good decisions in a high-risk, technically complex business when the information they need to makes those decisions co...

AIM To describe the process adopted to identify, classify, and evaluate legacy of health care planning in the host city of Porto Alegre for the Football World Cup 2014. BACKGROUND There is an emerging interest in the need to demonstrate a sustainable health legacy from mass gatherings investments. Leaving a public health legacy for future host cities and countries is now an important part of ...

Evaluating and selecting alternatives investment projects needs considering all relevant and important aspects. In traditional methods, the focus is just on tangible monetary criteria. Also in the traditional methods, either all the information’s about factors must be known precisely or sufficient objective data must be available for applying probability theory. In this paper, a combinative app...