scholarly journals Deficiencies in Project Governance: An Analysis of Infrastructure Development Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asadullah Khan ◽  
Muhammad Waris ◽  
Ishak Ismail ◽  
Mirza Sajid ◽  
Mehfooz Ullah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Sponsored Programs ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan

The governance of public sector infrastructure projects became an important topic of interest in the project, program, and portfolio management literature during the last decade. Today, it is becoming a central focus for policymakers seeking to ensure success in selecting, designing, and implementing government-sponsored programs of multi-projects. Due to the multiple underlying risks and complexities, the governance of infrastructure programs constitutes a critical element in strategic planning in developing countries. This paper has analyzed the infrastructure development program in Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Pakistan), and revealed major shortcomings in the areas of decision-making, stakeholder management, and role ambiguity. Approaches to remedy these shortcomings have, thus, been proposed.

scholarly journals Deficiencies in Project Governance: An Analysis of Infrastructure Development Programme of Multi-Projects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Waris ◽  
Asadullah Khan ◽  
Ishak Ismail ◽  
Mehfooz Ullah ◽  
Ammar Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Management Approaches

The governance of public sector infrastructure projects became an important topic of interest in the project, programme and portfolio management literature during the last decade. Today, it is becoming a central focus for policymakers seeking to ensure success in selecting, designing and implementing government-sponsored programme of multi-projects. Due to the multiple underlying risks and complexities, the governance of infrastructure programme constitutes a critical element in strategic planning in developing countries. This paper has analyzed infrastructure development programme and revealed shortcomings in the areas of appraisal, decision-making, quality assurance and stakeholder management. Approaches to remedy these shortcomings have been proposed.

scholarly journals The hierarchy of public project governance frameworks

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gro Holst Volden ◽  
Bjorn Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Public Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Internal Focus ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study public project governance frameworks in various ministries and agencies in Norway, following the introduction of such a framework on the topmost level (i.e. the cabinet) which applies to the very largest projects. Design/methodology/approach The study is methodologically designed as a qualitative assessment of project governance frameworks that apply to state-funded investment projects in selected sectors, based on data gathered through document reviews and interviews. Findings The study finds that all of the agencies have introduced their own project governance frameworks, which are basically consistent with the recommendations from the project management literature and with the cabinet’s overall requirements in Norway. By contrast, only one ministry has taken a formalized role as a project owner. Governance tasks thus seem to be extensively delegated to the subordinate agencies. This even includes strategic tasks such as project selection and portfolio management, and implies there is a risk that public project governance has a narrow and internal focus. Originality/value The paper is a first step toward a better understanding of public project governance as a hierarchical system and the relationship between project owners on three levels, the cabinet, the sectoral ministry, and the government agency.

Governance of Major Public Investment Projects: Principles and Practices in Six Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gro Holst Volden ◽  
Knut Samset
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Management Literature

This article compares the Norwegian scheme for quality assurance of major public projects with similar project governance schemes in five other OECD countries.1 All schemes have been introduced since the turn of the millennium and seem to be fairly consistent with recommendations from the project management literature. There are also a number of differences between the six schemes, for example, with regard to parties and roles, comprehensiveness, flexibility, organization, and whether portfolio management is covered. It is too early to make conclusions about their relative effects, but the evidence thus far indicates that there is much to learn across countries.

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam program pembangunan Infrastruktur Perdesaan (PPIP)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Lina Kumala Dewi ◽  
Bambang Triono ◽  
Dian Suluh Kusuma Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
Rural Infrastructure ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Household Heads

The construction of public participation has paid his dues. This is that in realizing development projects readily undergoing a failure that empowers people. Related in all process that deals with planning, implementation, the use of results and development monitoring. The rural infrastructure development program (PPIP) is development programs community empowerment. Where people have got to dive headlong in village development, especially physical development he purposes of this research is to find how the participation of the community in the Rural infrastructure development program (PPIP), Ngranget Village, Dagangan District, Madiun Regency. The kind of research is qualitative descriptive. In research, this is the population is the number of household heads involved in the delivery rabat concrete development in Ngranget village which consisted of 95 KK. The majority of informants interviewed in this research was 12 people. Was used in the study data collection method that is Technical Documentation interviews and data available for analysis namely described the results of research or data with a form of what is he got writer whether it is the results of the interviews, or result in appreciating documentation then investigated and the studies of the issue and. The result that the community participation in development in the village of rabat concrete Ngranget mind (planning), low participation in the form of energy high, participation in the form of expertise, quite low in the form of goods low, the form of money and participation is very low.

scholarly journals Using project demand profiling to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of infrastructure projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1422-1442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Godsell ◽  
Donato Masi ◽  
Antonios Karatzas ◽  
Timothy Mark Brady
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Utility Company ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Demand Profile ◽  
Theoretical Saturation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability and utility of supply chain (SC) segmentation through demand profiling to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of infrastructure projects by identifying different types of project demand profiles. Design/methodology/approach A three-stage abductive research design was adopted. Stage 1 explored the applicability of SC segmentation, through demand profiling, to the portfolio of infrastructure projects in a utility company. Stage 2 was an iterative process of “theory matching”, to the portfolio, programme and project management literature. In stage 3, theoretical saturation was reached and “theory suggestions” were made through four propositions. Findings Four propositions outline how SC segmentation through project demand profiling could improve the effectiveness and efficiency of infrastructure projects. P1: the ability to recognise the different demand profiles of individual projects, and groups thereof, is a portfolio management necessity. P2: projects that contribute to the strategic upgrade of a capital asset should be considered a potential programme of inter-related repeatable projects whose delivery would benefit from economies of repetition. P3: the greater the ability to identify different demand profiles of individual/groups of projects, the greater the delivery efficiency. P4: economies of repetition developed through efficient delivery of programmes of repeatable projects can foster greater efficiency in the delivery of innovative projects through economies of recombination. Originality/value This work fills a gap in the portfolio management literature, suggesting that the initial screening, selection and prioritisation of project proposals should be expanded to recognise not only the project type, but also each project’s demand profile.

scholarly journals Portfolio generation goes beyond project selection: interdependencies must drive new alternatives creation

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Project Selection ◽  
Project Portfolio ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Negative Interactions

The portfolio management literature mainstream, the Project Selection Paradigm, regards projects as closed packages ready for choice. However, to generate a portfolio, such packages must be opened to reveal the inside sources of interdependencies among them. Then, the project elements so found may be recombined into new alternatives that better capture the synergies among projects and avoid negative interactions. Thus project selection can be superseded by a Project Portfolio Generation based on a projects' and portfolios' reformulation process.

DSRIP’s innovation and collaboration in population health management: A cross-sectional segmented time series model

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-12
Author(s):  
Amrita Gopinath Shenoy
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Hospitalization Rate ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Preventable Hospitalization ◽  
Hospitalization Rates ◽  
The Impact

Texas Medicaid Section 1115 waiver approved Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program has four categories, namely infrastructure development, program innovation and redesign, reporting of quality improvement outcomes, and population health improvement. A metric of the fourth category, preventable hospitalization rate, was analyzed for a set of eight diagnostic conditions to assess the impact of DSRIP on participating- and non-participating hospitals over two time periods, pre-DSRIP and post-DSRIP, with the help of a cross-sectional segmented time series regression model. Texas Healthcare Information Collection database was leveraged to obtain preventable hospitalization rate data. The dependent variables were preventable hospitalization rates of eight program-specified conditions and the independent variables were time, intervention, and post-implementation intervention. The overall combined preventable hospitalization rate for DSRIP hospitals was observed to decrease by 25.73%, whereas the overall combined preventable hospitalization rate for non-DSRIP hospitals was observed to increase by 37.57%. DSRIP hospitals had invested in coordinating healthcare projects and were subsequently reimbursed by the state for healthcare improvements. The implementation of DSRIP may have had the capacity to decrease preventable hospitalization rates in regions wherein its adoption may have improved the health of the population.

scholarly journals Project governance: "Schools of thought"

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Christiaan Bekker
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Project Governance ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The terminology, definition and context of project governance have become a focal subject for research and discussions in project management literature. This article reviews literature on the subject of project governance and categorise the arguments into three schools of thought namely the single-firm school, multi-firm school and large capital school. The single-firm school is concerned with governance principles related to internal organisational projects and practice these principles at a technical level. The multi-firm school address the governance principles concerned with two of more organisations participating on a contractual basis on the same project and focus their governance efforts at the technical and strategic level. The large capital school consider projects as temporary organisations, forming their own entity and establishing governance principles at an institutional level. From these schools of thought it can be concluded that the definition of project governance is dependent on the type of project and hierarchical positioning in the organisation. It is also evident that further research is required to incorporate other governance variables and mechanisms such as transaction theory, social networks and agency theory. The development of project governance frameworks should also consider the complexity of projects spanning across international companies, across country borders and incorporating different value systems, legal systems, corporate governance guidelines, religions and business practices.

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