Purpose This study examines the criteria for evaluating quality of servitization and factors influencing project–service system's success. Design/methodology/approach Evidence was collected through three rounds Delphi consensus with 42 project managers. Findings The results indicate that in project-oriented organizations is conceptualized as a cumulative construct driven by product-service over...

Software Maintenance (SM) constitutes a critical function that enables organizations to continually leverage their IT capabilities. However a majority of the SM methodologies are geared toward large organizations. This is detrimental to small organizations (SO), for which SM remains an important function. This research contributes to the discipline by a) evaluating the appropriateness of existi...

The purpose of this project was to establish a coalition of academic, state, and community-based organizations to develop a community action plan (CAP) to eliminate breast and cervical cancer morbidity and mortality disparities between African-American (AA) and Caucasian women. The project targeted rural and urban low-income AA women in Alabama. Based on the logic model, community capacity buil...

the research on project scheduling has widely expanded over the last few decades. the vast majority of these research efforts focus on exact and suboptimal procedures for constructing a workable schedule, assuming complete information and a static deterministic problem environment. project activities are scheduled subject to both technological precedence constraints and resource constraints, mo...

Many organizations face the challenge of deploying a consistent project methodology. The challenge becomes more significant for global organizations such as Whirlpool Corporation which have a large number of IS projects cutting across business units, geographies and functional areas. In 2010, Whirlpool Corporation, a global leader in the appliance industry, deployed a new waterfall-based IS pro...

The AIDS Community Information Outreach Program (ACIOP) was created in 1994 to assist the affected community in utilizing electronic HIV/AIDS information resources. Nearly 300 competitive awards have been made to mostly community-based organizations. A formal evaluation was undertaken to determine the performance and impact of the ACIOP. A mixed methods design combined quantitative abstractions...