Although strategic management of R&D portfolios is common practice in private sector R&D, government R&D management tends to be more discrete and ad hoc, focusing on generating maximum output from individual projects. Often, there is no clear notion of the desired public sector output.Whereas private sector R&D evaluation is generally straightforward, with the function of R&D being measured in ...

To increase the chances that knowledge management will provide strategic advantage, it should be tied to competitive strategy. Most KM projects, if considering strategic impact at all, start from the outcome and work backward to strategic impact. This paper suggests that one should start with strategy, identify strategic points of knowledge leverage, and use that to drive KM initiatives. It pro...

Strategic competence. These are areas of new evolving knowledge which the company thinks will be very important in the future, but which currently they still have a lot to learn about. In Mars, knowledge about mass-market entry in the 3 world would have fitted in this box a couple of years ago. Much of the knowledge coming out of Waltham will fit in this box. Strategic knowledge is managed by s...

a vast number of organizational projects as well as complexity of decision making process can cause particular challenges for project management and its leadership. in order to use organization assets and opportunities efficiently, it is necessary that manager implement a comprehensive multidimensional project portfolio management system that considers economic, social and technical details of ...

Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical research university, in which we re...

The starting point of this article is that the strategic dimension of projects concerns creating value. It shows that value is a complex issue that requires many difficult questions to be answered. A case project illustrates how project success may look very different from different perspectives. Further it is shown that relevance and sustainability are superior criteria that need to be secured...

Usability evaluation is an important and strategic activity in software projects (IEEE Computer Society, 2004). Its relevance had been recognized in the context of the user (Lindgaard & Chattratichart, 2007) and the software organization (Bak et al., 2008). However, several studies had identified important obstacles to its applicacion in software developement process (Bak et al., 2008; Ardito e...

A number of issues are covered in this paper. Chief among them is the need for greater discipline in understanding the economic benefits of software reuse within the context of a broader business strategy. While traditional methods fail to account for growth opportunities and flexibility generated by investments in reuse, the introduction of option pricing theory can greatly enhance the design ...

This paper analyses the impact of ICTs on the strategic and organisational behaviour of hotel enterprises in the Dolomites, one of the main tourist areas in the Alps. The results are from two research projects conducted in 2005 and which involved 1) in-depth personal interviews of a sampling of 43 hotel owners in the Dolomite area and 2) the evaluation of the Web sites of 147 hotels from the sa...

It is argued that projects and programs designed to meet the practical needs of men, women, and children in communities should also focus on meeting the strategic gender needs of women. This paper shows what project planners can do to ensure women¿s participation in the design and maintenance of development projects without increasing their workloads, and with the goal of raising their status ...