The explicit management of project experience (lessons learned on project planning and execution) has become of strategic importance to many organizations. This paper describes how to set-up and run a case-based repository for sharing project experience using an industrial-strength case study. The case study shows that it is both effective and efficient for the information seeker to have an exp...

Organizations generally have a variety of IT projects to implement, but only limited resources to develop them. As information technology and systems pervade organizations, the pool of potential IT projects is continually increasing. In this paper, we explore IT project prioritization practices in a real life context and contrast them with the rational approaches which dominate the IS literatur...

Nurse staffing and scheduling is a major health human resource issue currently facing healthcare organizations. To increase the capacity of healthcare organizations to address a variety of issues related to nurse staffing and scheduling, a mult-isite collaborative project was undertaken. The primary focus of this project was

Theory-based nursing practice positively influences many outcomes in healthcare organizations. As a response to limited human and economic resources, a college of nursing and a for-profit healthcare organization worked in partnership to develop a project that focused on developing and demonstrating the value of a dedicated education unit grounded in caring theory. The authors describe the devel...

The knowledge-based view of the firm has led to greater theoretical interest in how organizations integrate their knowledge resources embedded in people’s expertise. We examine the knowledge integration problem in geographically dispersed professional organizations in which experts work in project teams. From consideration of coordination costs and local ties, we argue that (1) the organization...

For many cases, grading and prioritizing the projects are so important in project-based organizations. In fact, it means prioritizing some projects and allocating organizational resource only to those projects to reach the organization profit up to maximum level through such allocation and decision. There are many different factors contribute in choosing the best project combination for organiz...

What behavioral competencies do experienced IT project managers apply when facing critical situations in their projects, and how have they developed those competencies? In this paper, the authors answer these questions. The authors interviewed 23 experienced IT project managers from 11 organizations, focusing on critical situations that they now managed differently from their earlier, novice, p...

As globalisation takes place, the market is getting more and more competitive. Manufacturing enterprises are facing tremendous pressure to succeed in the market with promising market shares. This has led to enterprises seeking for competitive advantage in order to vie with their rivals. In manufacturing context, efforts have been put in, for instance, to reduce production lead times, maximise p...

Despite the significance of the knowledge initiatives at project level, our understanding of knowledge transfer between projects and of its influencing factors remains limited. Drawing on knowledge transfer and project management literature, we develop a theoretical model positing that cross-project knowledge transfer is influenced by project teams' transfer capabilities, project teams' relatio...