scholarly journals INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCE AND CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: A REVIEW OF SUCCESS FACTORS FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1867-1876
Author(s):  
Pauline Victoria Rajski ◽  
Panos Y Papalambros
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Community Inclusion ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Integrated Conservation

AbstractIntegrated Natural Resource and Conservation Development (INRCD) Projects is an umbrella term for a variety of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs), a concept first introduced by the World Wide Fund for Nature in the mid 1980s to target practice-oriented efforts in developing countries; and Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) research and development projects introduced as adaptive management for fisheries, wildlife, forest, and rangeland to target analysis-oriented efforts in developing and developed countries. Both efforts seek to balance economic development and natural resource conservation. This paper reviews the literature over the past four decades in an attempt to determine which planning and execution methods lead to greater success. A thematic analysis revealed three broad areas of importance: community inclusion and income diversification, inadequate training and management, and inability to properly quantify data. A systems design optimization approach for such projects is advocated to support project decision making in these areas of importance.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Successful Realisation of Benefits from Systems Development Projects: Findings from Three Case Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil F Doherty ◽  
Colin Ashurst ◽  
Joe Peppard
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
The Other ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Technical Artefact ◽  
Timely Delivery

The return that organisations derive from investments in information systems and technology continues to disappoint. While there is a very significant body of literature on the factors that should facilitate a successful outcome from systems development, there is growing concern that these prescriptions are not having their desired effect. In this paper, we argue that the success of a systems development project should be measured in terms of its ability to deliver meaningful benefits, rather than the timely delivery of a technical artefact, and therefore organisations should adopt an explicit and proactive benefits realisation approach when investing in IT. Consequently, we sought to explore those actionable factors that might facilitate the effective realisation of benefits from systems development initiatives. Three organisations were identified that claimed to adopt a proactive approach to benefits realisation, and detailed studies of their systems development practices were conducted. Our analysis found that whilst one organisation had been successful in its adoption of a benefits realisation perspective, the other two had not, and this allowed us to identify those factors that helped to explain this difference in outcomes. In short, this paper makes an important contribution by identifying how a subset of traditional systems success factors might be enhanced, to give them a more explicit benefits realisation orientation. Moreover, it presents a coherent set of principles that can be used for deriving other factors and practices.

scholarly journals Most severe risk factors in software development projects in Kuwait

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Abdullah J. Al-Shehab ◽  
Thalaya Alfozan ◽  
Hesham Gadelrab
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Project ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Software Development Project ◽  
Private Organizations

<p><span>Software development projects are famous of high rate failure, this made an encouragement for researcher to investigate reasons of failure. However, literature covering under developed countries is uncommon. This research investigates the most severe risk factors in software development project in the country of Kuwait. A face-to-face questionnaire with 109 IT practitioners in Kuwait from government and private organizations was conducted. The findings reveal and identify risk factors that have a high impact on the budget, quality, and schedule. The aim of this study is to validate risk factor taxonomy through quantitative methods by experts in the field of IT. Another purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive and updated review of risk factors from Kuwait to be presented for IT practitioners and researchers.</span></p>

scholarly journals Sustainable Construction in Malaysian Mixed Development Projects: The Barriers and Critical Success Factors

2018 ◽  
pp. 885-892
Author(s):  
Nur Fatin Syazwani Abu Bakar ◽  
Syuhaida Ismail ◽  
Rohayah Che Amat ◽  
Serdar Durdyev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Importance Index

Malaysia is in a need of commitment to more sustainable development, rather than a traditional approach ‘grow first, clean up later’ to ensure the protection of environment and not to compromise needs of future generations. Although initiatives for the environmental protection have been introduced in 1960s, they have yet to receive a sufficient level of adoption amongst the construction stakeholders in Malaysia. Therefore, via questionnaire surveys to 130 professionals involved in mixed development projects, this paper aims at investigating barriers to, and critical success factors (CSFs) of sustainable construction (SC) in the mixed development projects in Malaysia. The outcomes translated via the Relative Importance Index (RII) technique reveal that the most critical barriers are SC projects are expensive, unwillingness to change to SC and high cost in purchasing technology, the learning curve cost and employing skilled labour, whilst the most significant CSFs are initial investment, commitment for changing behaviours, policy implementation efforts, guidance for SC, available of technology and materials and project procurement system. This paper focuses on the implementation of SC in delivering mixed development projects in Malaysia that is in line with the Malaysian sustainability goal in adopting the sustainable consumption and production concept. This paper is promoting sustainable development overseen by Malaysia via discussion of the SC directions and practices in delivering the Malaysian mixed development project.

Research On Risks Encountered By Institutions In European Development Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 517-520
Author(s):  
Diana Elena Ranf ◽  
Elida-Tomiţa Todăriţa ◽  
Dănuţ Dumitru Dumitraşcu
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Application Form ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Development Opportunity ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
European Development ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Risk Categories ◽  
Implementation Stage

AbstractEuropean funds are a development opportunity for the Romanian organizations. The research in the article aims to identify the main risk categories that the beneficiaries from Centre Region have faced, and also the effects of not considering certain risk categories in the stage of filling out the application form and also in the implementation stage of the projects have had on the development of these projects. Identifying how the organisations have managed projects during the development projects 2003-2013 finds its usefulness in the following period that is knocking on our doors: 2014-2020 that should find us better prepared and more capable of proving seriousness and professionalism. Therefore, training in projects should not end once the structural funds have been attracted, but it should be regarded as destined to modernize our way of thinking and actions in helping organisations develop their businesses.

scholarly journals PROPOSING A SPECIFICATION STRUCTURE FOR COMPLEX PRODUCTS IN MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (MBSE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2481-2490
Author(s):  
Joshua Fahl ◽  
Tobias Hirschter ◽  
Gabriel Wöhrle ◽  
Albert Albers
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Complexity ◽  
Complex Product ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Model Based Systems Engineering ◽  
Product Specification

AbstractThis research work presents a methodological support for the specification of complex products. This is achieved by developing a specification structure in a MBSE environment. The new method draws on success factors of complex product specification, principles of MBSE and the explanatory model of PGE – Product Generation Engineering. For evaluation, the method is applied within a student development project. A high applicability and the realization of novel synergies for coping with continuously increasing product complexity is demonstrated.

scholarly journals A SYSTEM DESIGN OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
Thomas Barlow ◽  
Mandappa Biddanda ◽  
Samarth Mendke ◽  
Emmanuel Miyingo ◽  
Anabel Sicko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
System Level ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
System Design Optimization ◽  
System Configurations

AbstractIntegrated Natural Resource Conservation and Development (INRCD) Projects are efforts at worldwide locations to promote economic development of local communities consistent with conservation of natural resources. This umbrella term includes Integration Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) introduced by the World Wide Fund to combine social development and conservation s through the use of socio-economic investments, and the Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) research and development efforts that have employed a systems approach for quantitative modeling and optimization. In the spirit of the INRCD framework, we describe the development of a system-level agriculture and energy model comprising engineering and economic models for crop, irrigation, and energy subsystem designs for a community in Central Uganda. The model architecture is modular allowing modifications for different system configurations and project locations. We include some initial results and discuss next steps for system optimization, refining model assumptions, and modeling community social benefits as drivers of such projects.

scholarly journals A viability criterion for computer system development projects

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
J. Mende
Keyword(s):  
Computer System ◽  
Cost Of Capital ◽  
System Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Organizational Growth ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
Development Costs ◽  
Processing Cost ◽  
Informational Value

A manager facing the decision whether to proceed with a proposed computer system development project needs to determine whether its benefits are worth more than its costs. This can be done by applying a simple mathematical formula to calculate the project's 'net worth', as the sum of the annual benefits obtainable during the system's life span, less its development costs. The formula recognizes that a system's annual benefit, comprising enhanced informational value plus reduction In data processing cost, will change as a result of obsolescence, cost of capital, organizational growth and learning.

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