Rethinking Project Management for A Dynamic and Digital World

Projects and project management (PM) are becoming a way of working, and many changes in society have evolved because of projects. However, will the societal agenda also influence the project management discipline? Societal issues generated by urban population growth and rapid urbanization arise in cities. Making a city “smart” and sustainable is emerging as a strategy to mitigate these issues. How does this development impact project management? In order to answer this question, we performed meaningful learning by mapping the concepts for Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC) and project management and developing prior and post concept maps. We identified four major findings describing the implication of societal issues on project management: quality of life acts as a societal objective for PM; PM governs autonomous projects with new business models; and PM success criteria are related to stakeholders and long-term effects, as well as extensive connection to the digital world with consideration of the privacy and ethics. From this, we were able to redefine the definition of project management as “a collaborative endeavor of all affected stakeholders equivalently participating in exploring and exploiting, via an autonomous temporary organization, fit-for-purpose deliverables with connections to the digital platform, thereby aiming to prepare the entities of the affected stakeholders for the future”. Our study is novel and relevant for PM and SSC practice: societal issues are on the strategy agenda of many governments and companies, and these will drive the projects that are performed in this environment. The project management community should align with this development, since these challenges are part of their environment. As a start, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of societal issues is relevant to build new definitions, competences, and supporting processes.

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An ANP Approach for Prioritizing the Agile Project Management Criteria in Industry 4.0 Transition

Agile Approaches for Successfully Managing and Executing Projects in the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7865-9.ch009 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 165-187

Author(s):

Seda Yanık ◽

Erkan Işıklı

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Stakeholder Involvement ◽

Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽

Analytical Network Process ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

Digital World ◽

Agile Project Management ◽

Network Process

The Fourth Industrial Revolution requires today's companies to bring the physical and digital world together to achieve a higher efficiency and gain competitive advantage. This transformation can be made possible using advanced technologies which has interdependencies on one another and their implementation can be best achieved using project management principles. Agile principles (e.g. multiple iterations, stakeholder involvement) play an important role in executing this transformation. In this study, the authors first defined the processes and technologies required in the Industry 4.0 transition. Since the projects related to different technologies may require the prioritization of project management dimensions to cope with complexity and uncertainty, agile project management criteria are specified to prioritize them adopting a multi-criteria decision-making approach, namely the Analytical Network Process. Using the results obtained, suggestions for the creation of a framework to manage the Industry 4.0 transformation in an agile manner were presented.

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A basic introduction to image processing using NIH-Image as a model

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100169699 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 392-393

Author(s):

John Mansfield

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Digital Image ◽

Image Acquisition ◽

Digital Instrument ◽

Novice User ◽

Nih Image ◽

The Past ◽

Digital World ◽

The World ◽

Instrument Control

Advances in camera technology and digital instrument control have meant that in modern microscopy, the image that was, in the past, typically recorded on a piece of film is now recorded directly into a computer. The transfer of the analog image seen in the microscope to the digitized picture in the computer does not mean, however, that the problems associated with recording images, analyzing them, and preparing them for publication, have all miraculously been solved. The steps involved in the recording an image to film remain largely intact in the digital world. The image is recorded, prepared for measurement in some way, analyzed, and then prepared for presentation.Digital image acquisition schemes are largely the realm of the microscope manufacturers, however, there are also a multitude of “homemade” acquisition systems in microscope laboratories around the world. It is not the mission of this tutorial to deal with the various acquisition systems, but rather to introduce the novice user to rudimentary image processing and measurement.

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