Design Thinking and Creative Technologies in Project Management: Multi-Stage Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Vishnevskaya ◽  
A. Afonina
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Manager Role ◽  
Innovation Product ◽  
Product Creation ◽  
Project Lifecycle

The present article is devoted to the issues of applying design thinking and other creative technologies destined at the development of innovational solutions of the existing tasks and restrictions in project management processes. The authors are developing a conceptual framework by defining the focus of application of creative technologies in the project management practice as well as are proposing a custom approach to the application of the relevant instruments based on the project type and its lifecycle phases. The findings are made on the basis of fundamentals of project management, strategic management and design thinking methodology, as well as the authors’ own applied studies and experience in project and program management. The proposed approach allows broadening theoretical learnings on the project lifecycle stages from the perspective of creating and developing business innovations, as well as on the project manager role and skills, which in turn helps to resolve complex issues and controversies connected to the application of the existing project management methods in the organizational development and innovation product creation processes.

scholarly journals Correlation Model of Delay in Project Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Umar Altahtooh
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Correlation Model ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
Project Management Processes ◽  
Project Lifecycle

Time errors are still a new concept in the field of project management, so there is a need to discover where they can happen throughout the project lifecycle. The previous research on this area is conceptual in nature and restricted to the definition and causes of time errors. This paper seeks to find the correlations between uncertainty and delay, between time errors and delay, and between uncertainty and time errors. It also seeks to find where exactly time errors can occur during the 47 project management processes identified in the PMBOK guide. Data were gathered using a survey of 40 project managers and analyzed using the statistical program SPSS. The findings show that there are relationships among the studied variables. Time errors can occur in any of the five groups of project management processes, with varying rates. The outcomes introduce a picture for main stakeholders in project management to avoid the occurrence of time errors as far as possible in project management processes. 

scholarly journals International business project and competence profile of the project management team (part 2)

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
S.P. Oleynik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
International Business ◽  
Management Team ◽  
International Project ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Product Creation ◽  
Competence Profile

Potential participants in cross-border resource exchange have been identified as representatives of the subject composition of the international project. The typification of cross-border flows of goods has been carried out. Changes in the content of management processes associated with the transition of the project to the «international» category are shown. The list of competencies required to manage projects in this category is provided. It is concluded that the competence profile of the project management team should reflect the balance of competencies in the three components of a single management process — project management processes, product creation processes and supporting (supporting) processes.

Factors Affecting Sustainability of Project Management Processes

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Ahmed Oraby ◽  
Mohamed Mohamdeen ◽  
Hassan Hassan ◽  
Ibrahim Nosseir
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Project Management Processes

An Analysis of Web-based Document Management and Communication Tools Usage Among Project Managers

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Rozman ◽  
Tanja Kocjan Stjepanovič ◽  
Andrej Raspor
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Motivation Factors ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Eu Project

The article analyzes modern cloud document management systems and communication tools from the viewpoint of a EU project managers, who lead multidisciplinary, multilingual and international teams. It also explores the types of users who use these tools as well as the motivation factors guiding their choices. The research includes observation within the project group, interviews and semi-structured surveys among 40 EU project managers, who have managed 244 EU projects. The main finding is that a lot of project managers still don't use shared, cloud document system. The biggest obstacle to more efficient usage of existing systems is their un-friendliness, security concerns and lack of skills. Meetings are still perceived as the most efficient channel for distributing and receiving project tasks, but they are closely followed by communication software. Applying the authors' findings to the project management practice can lead to better communication and shared document storage management, which can influence overall effectiveness of project management.

scholarly journals The Role of Donor Agencies in Promoting Standardized Project Management in the Spanish Development Non-Government Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1490
Author(s):  
Agustín Moya-Colorado ◽  
Nina León-Bolaños ◽  
José L. Yagüe-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
International Development ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Donor Agencies

Project management is an autonomous discipline that is applied to a huge diversity of activity sectors and that has evolved enormously over the last decades. International Development Cooperation has incorporated some of this discipline’s tools into its professional practice, but many gaps remain. This article analyzes donor agencies’ project management approaches in their funding mechanisms for projects implemented by non-governmental organizations. As case study, we look at the Spanish decentralized donor agencies (Spanish autonomous communities). The analysis uses the PM2 project management methodology of the European Commission, as comparison framework, to assess and systematize the documentation, requirements, and project management tools that non-governmental organizations need to use and fulfill as a condition to access these donors’ project funding mechanisms. The analysis shows coincidence across donors in the priority given to project management areas linked to the iron triangle (scope, cost, and time) while other areas are mainly left unattended. The analysis also identifies industry-specific elements of interest (such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals) that need to be incorporated into project management practice in this field. The use of PM2 as benchmark provides a clear vision of the project management areas that donors could address to better support their non-governmental organization-implemented projects.

scholarly journals Agile Innovation to transform healthcare: innovating in complex adaptive systems is an everyday process, not a light bulb event

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjinnov-2020-000574
Author(s):  
Richard J Holden ◽  
Malaz A Boustani ◽  
Jose Azar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Light Bulb ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Agile Project Management ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Behavioural Sciences

Innovation is essential to transform healthcare delivery systems, but in complex adaptive systems innovation is more than ‘light bulb events’ of inspired creativity. To achieve true innovation, organisations must adopt a disciplined, customer-centred process. We developed the process of Agile Innovation as an approach any complex adaptive organisation can adopt to achieve rapid, systematic, customer-centred development and testing of innovative interventions. Agile Innovation incorporates insights from design thinking, Agile project management, and complexity and behavioural sciences. It was refined through experiments in diverse healthcare organisations. The eight steps of Agile Innovation are: (1) confirm demand; (2) study the problem; (3) scan for solutions; (4) plan for evaluation and termination; (5) ideate and select; (6) run innovation development sprints; (7) validate solutions; and (8) package for launch. In addition to describing each of these steps, we discuss examples of and challenges to using Agile Innovation. We contend that once Agile Innovation is mastered, healthcare delivery organisations can habituate it as the go-to approach to projects, thus incorporating innovation into how things are done, rather than treating innovation as a light bulb event.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE TRANSITION TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Sergey Bushuyev ◽  
Denis Bushuiev ◽  
Victoria Bushuieva ◽  
Olena Verenych
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The problem of creating effective models, methods and tools for strategic management of projects and programs for the development of organizations in the transition to a circular economy. Global trends in the development of organizations prove that the world is transforming with acceleration. The life cycle of knowledge and technologies for managing complex projects and programs is significantly reduced. The technical and technological complexity of organizational development projects increases due to innovations. These trends create significant challenges in the development of project management systems and programs for the formation of a circular economy in Ukraine. This is especially true of projects and programs in conditions of uncertainty about the impact of COVID 19 and anticipation of a global crisis after a pandemic. Today, the application of proven best practices (benchmarking) is no longer a way forward. Forming a vision, goals and strategy for the implementation of organizational development projects in advance makes our actions rigid, not flexible. When creating a project or program begins with focusing on what is valuable to our customers and the country, it is enough for us to use best practices. But the complexity and innovative orientation of development projects of organizations in the transition to a circular economy creates a number of challenges. One of the answers to these challenges is cost-effective work on project management and development programs, taking into account the trends of transition to a circular economy. Project management teams learn to distinguish between what is valuable and what doesn't matter, this is the path that management methodologies have taken for decades. A number of projects have taken the first steps in implementing the necessary cost-effective / flexible transition that supports sustainability and adaptability to turbulent environmental changes. In the conditions of modern destructive economic relations in the world community the problem of a choice of strategy of projects as drivers of development of the organizations is vital. One of the key approaches to the development of the EU is the transition to a circular economy with maximum utilization of both waste products and projects, and the disposal of project products after the end of product life cycles.

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